Marco Di Battista - Yehà (2023) [Hi-Res]

Marco Di Battista has frequently placed the logic of melodica at the center of his musical interests, an expressive code used, like a sort of lock pick, to foster communication and empathy among the musicians chosen as interpreters of his musical vision. A trick to weave, in a profitable way, the synthesis between references and intentions. A universal key that we find in the leanest and most essential albums up to the more articulated ones with enlarged formations.

In this new work, the melody represents the point where to bring together the traditions of jazz, the reminiscences of prog and certain reflections of electric jazz. It is also the binary that guides the comparison between maturity and enthusiasm, in a dialogue between different generations and musical approaches. A conversation animated by elements that have imposed themselves in an increasingly basic way in the musical development of the pianist. The predisposition to mutual listening, the choral construction evoked by the cantabile, the choices made step by step, always consequential and well calibrated. A plot traced by the melodic lines, open to the contribution of the various participants, enriched by the solutions found from time to time by the soloists, attentive to the expressive freedom of improvisation and of the combinations that arise as the music takes shape. A delicate and, at the same time, resistant thread, designed to make more complicated solutions from a rhythmic or harmonic point of view fluid and discursive and to give space both to the more rational ideas of the composer and to the more instinctive and instantaneous expressions of the musician.