Alessandro Campobasso, Eugenio Macchia, Luigi Di Nunzio, Giulio Scianatico - The Imaginary Roads (2022) [Hi-Res]

The Imaginary Roads is the second album by Italian drummer and composer Alessandro Campobasso and his quartet. Freely inspired by the “Invisible Cities” of Italo Calvino, this work aims to highlight the evocative and perceptive power of Jazz music and reveals a strong expressive urgency of the leader. In his musical research, tradition and contemporaneity converge in a writing that alternates open spaces and multi-thematic forms. The overall breath of the quartet and its open way of understanding the rhythmic drive embody well the idea of the journey with its encounters and its ripples. The texture of the pieces and their succession highlight a musical aesthetic in which storytelling is central, a narrative in which the written parts are entrusted to a strong customization of sound and sound space. Campobasso aims to drag the listener in a musical journey through multiple aesthetic, stylistic and compositional solutions, evoking the infinite “imaginary streets” that music allows. In this perspective there is a frame to the pieces, as in the “invisible cities”, that channels perceptions and connects evolution.

Personnel
Luigi Di Nunzio – alto saxophone
Pasquale Calò – tenor saxophone
Eugenio Macchia – piano
Giulio Scianatico – doublebass
Alessandro Campobasso – drums

1.01 - Alessandro Campobasso - Interrail Global Pass (4:24)
1.02 - Alessandro Campobasso - News (6:58)
1.03 - Alessandro Campobasso - You and the Night and the Music (3:54)
1.04 - Alessandro Campobasso - Play On (6:04)
1.05 - Alessandro Campobasso - All of Marla (9:43)
1.06 - Alessandro Campobasso - The Imaginary Roads (6:51)