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Achille Succi e Salvatore Maiore

Pequenas Flores do Inferno

A dialogue between deep and conscious sensibilities.
An exploration into the extreme resources of the two instruments, led among extraordinarily mobile and varied tonal colours. A chase without quarter through the spaces of the linguistic imagination of contemporary jazz. Improvisation which becomes an accurate structure in the hands of the two musicians who, with a total poetic compatibility, have been crossing paths for quite a time.

In this perfect work, Achille Succi and Salvatore Maiore reach an extremely high symbiotic quality, moving in the most complete liberty, even when they choose to rest on more well-trodden grounds, perhaps to pay a surprising tribute to the great Pixinguinha, one of the central figures of twentieth century Brazilian popular music.

Giorgio Signoretti


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Tracks:

1. OTOKOGOKORO (Succi / Maiore)
2. SOULBLADE (Succi / Maiore)
3. PANTERANA (Succi / Maiore) --> Listen Mp3!
4. NIGHT LINES (Achille Succi)
5. HYPNOPOTAMO (Succi / Maiore)
6. ASTROGLIDE (Succi / Maiore)
7. VIRUS (Salvatore Maiore)
8. KY (Succi / Maiore)
9. ROSA (Pixinguinha)
10. FEDIFRAGOLA (Succi / Maiore)
11. GIUBEK (Succi / Maiore)
12. SETTEMBRINI (Succi / Maiore) --> Listen Mp3!



Personnel:

ACHILLE SUCCI bass clarinet, alto saxophone
SALVATORE MAIORE double bass


Artwork by MASSIMILIANO SORRENTINI



Review quotes:

Angelo Abbonante
Jazz Convention - maggio 2007

"Un'improvvisazione in grado di comunicare emozioni, melodie, libertà di fare"

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Budd Kopman
All About Jazz - 6.5.2007
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=25497

Succi is always a melodic player and hence even his free improvisations contain motivic phrases that help create a structure. Indeed, the strength of the music lies in the structure that supports these twelve striking miniatures. [...] Fabulous music that will entrance for every single second of its forty-four minutes"

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Enrico Bettinello
Blow Up - dicembre 2006

"Pequenas Flores Do Inferno, giocato su toni inquieti e scuri, rovescia la prospettiva "cameristica" del dialogo e la screzia di aperture, nel solco della migliore improvvisazione europea" (voto: 7 su 8)