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Wergeld

Achtung!

Achtung is an extraordinary work on the quality, weight and density of the single sonoric events therein, and the faculty of organizing them within a continuum which is a vehicle for deep esthetic sensations. It is an unimpeded descent into the territories of surprise, a vertiginous mapping, in real time, of the many worlds which exist in the linguistic universe of new jazz.

The three components of Wergeld, Domenico Caliri, Giovanni Maier and Zeno De Rossi, approach the material, which is semantically close to John Zorn, Carla Bley, Albert and Don Ayler, in an extremely acute manner, using the tradition of the respective instruments in a free and figurative way, in constant balance between an endless timbric morphing and a dazzling juxtaposition of different situations and climates.

Giorgio Signoretti


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Tracks:

1. LIGHT IN DARKNESS (Albert Ayler)
2. IL PIGIAMA DI WAGNER (Wergeld)
3. ACHTUNG! (Wergeld) --> Listen Mp3!
4. ZEBDI (John Zorn)
5. OUR PRAYER (Don Ayler)
6. CINDERELLA'S NIGHTMARE (Wergeld)
7. IDA LUPINO (Carla Bley) --> Listen Mp3!


Personnel:

DOMENICO CALIRI electric guitar, effects
GIOVANNI MAIER double bass
ZENO DE ROSSI drums


Artwork by CAROLA GHILARDI



Review quotes:

Maurizio Comandini
All About Jazz Italia - 22.4.2007
http://italia.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=1121

"L’approccio percussivo di Zeno De Rossi è il fulcro attorno al quale gira il paesaggio sonoro che si muove con grande senso della profondità, dell’eleganza, della sobrietà, della lucida nostalgia di qualcosa che sta in fondo all’anima e che non vuole saperne di saltar fuori a prendersi i mismi di questo mondo bislacco"

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Ana Isabel Ordonez
Jazz Review - aprile 2007
http://www.jazzreview.com/cd/review-18725.html

"Wergeld expels waves of sounds, twisting and boiling with winding mindfulness, oft times meshing while in this musical journey, they whirl each other symbiotic support. Achtung! is an excellent release in which skill, sensitivity and mastery will awaken one’s attention"