Enzo Favata, Luciano Elzondo & Marcello Peghin - Mystic Geography (2024) [Hi-Res]

With this new project Enzo Favata returns to his great passion for sacred music, addressed in records such as ‘Boghes and Voices’ (German Music Award nomination, 2003). Today, over twenty years have passed since that experience, the musician faces a new mystical, almost astral journey.

Luciana Elizondo’s voice comes from the profound baroque period, with her instrument capable of evoking landscapes painted by the Flemish masters of the 1500s, thanks to her great knowledge of her repertoire which sees her active in numerous ancient music ensembles in Europe.

Enzo Favata alternates the unmistakable sound of his soprano saxophone, bass clarinet, synthesizer, samplers and field recordings. He arranged the entire album creating a form and a pathos, which make the sound of this album unique.

The playing of guitarist Marcello Peghin evokes memories of a distant world, as well as drawing inspiration from the 70s, revitalized and filtered. On the album we find sounds that are distant from each other, but which blend perfectly with those archaic sounds of the viola and singing, in a journey between the music of the 1500s and contemporary sounds. We find ourselves in front of a truly magical trio that has managed to merge the spirit of ancient music with contemporary electronics, putting together the lessons of John Hassell, Brian Eno, psychedelic music with echoes of Pink Floyd, and some early Genesis guitar sounds, all blended by a skillful jazz improvisation at the service of a great mystical landscape. The music is intended as hypnotic mantras, in a fusion between acoustic and electronic, in a surreal environment the following songs follow one another – some placed between 1500 and 1600, and other twentieth century authors.

Luciana Elizondo voice, viola da gamba
Marcello Peghin electric guitar
Enzo Favata soprano saxophone, synthesizer