Enzo Favata, Daniele di Bonaventura, Marcello Peghin, Salvatore Maltana, U.T. Gandh: Ritornare CD
Led by Sardinian saxophonist and clarinetist Enzo Favata, with long-time collaborator Marcello Peghin on guitar, bandoneonist Daniel Di Bonaventura, double bassist Salvatore Maltana and drummer UT Gandhi, on Ritornare the Atlantico Quintet creates a richly coloured acoustic sound world as they have never before, shaped by shared travels and investigations into multiple musical cultures. Rather modus operandi than broad geographical classification, the group’s name points toward the large idiomatic bridges that are crossed musically on travels from Sardinia, the musicians’ home base, to South America, to where extended touring spells took the quintet in its early days. African roots are implied, as are the improvisational aspects natural to dealing with musical journeys this spaciously vast yet, from a historical perspective, so closely intertwined. Enzo Favata has long been enthralled with the abundance of threads that fashion this wide-flung web. In music, he re-discovers the places he has visited from memory, returning (“ritornare”) to them through sound.
Here and now, several decades after they first found each other, Favata and his cohorts create dialogues within structures and atmospheres that, at first glance, seem strangely familiar yet offer new details at each repeated glimpse — the listener is slowly but steadily removed from what they thought they recognised, returning to a place that feels reassuring yet unknown. And each time the musicians try to trace their steps, they end up at a new place, returning to where they haven’t quite yet been.
Tracklist:
1. Tukuman
2. El Sur
3. Escuchame
4. Donde nace el viento
5. Sine nomine
6. Milonga del Sol
7. Ventana
8. Albatros
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