Marcello Melis - Angedras (1982/2024)

"Angedras is the mirror image of "Sardegna" (the Italian name for Sardinia). The long tale which unfolds in this record has been dedicated by Marcello Melis to this island, morred at the center of the Mediterranean Sea. It is a tale narrated in a language that draws its substance from several different worlds: the urban reality of jazz, the deep rhythms of Africa, the melodic tradition of Sardinian shepherds. ...The work is formed in four parts and immediately reveals the musical reasons behind it: first of all a shameless yearning for melody; secondly a pleasure in breaking the formal, classic rules of jazz." (from the CD's liner notes by Alberto Rodriguez)