Marco Bardoscia - Legnomadre (2023) [Official Digital Download]

The double bass player and composer Marco Bardoscia presents a preview of the songs from Legnomadre, a new recording project produced by Paolo Fresu's Tŭk Music label in the puglia sounds record 2023 programming.

As it is known, there are particular double bass players. Marco Bardoscia is one of these. Its well-known peculiarity is that of combining the technical aspect (read metronomic sense of tempo combined with a powerful cavata and an "intelligent" use of the bow) a talented and personal approach to the world of composition and arrangement. Always sensitive to the theme of "Earth" and, due to its transitive property - given the raw material of his instrument - to that of nature and especially wood. LegnoMadre is the obvious and natural continuation of "The future is a tree", a previous recording work also released for Tuk Music in 2020. The message, as the author himself recalls, is once again to remain vigilant to protect our mother earth, the wood of our beloved trees is a "sacred" material due to its being alive, malleable, hard and flexible at the same time, for its ability to protect and warm us, for the multitude of uses that can be made of it. Wood is also the material from which all the instruments in this project are made and thus Legno Madre becomes the love song of wood (and of those who play it) for mother Earth. The past years of the pandemic have shifted our attention to our health, to ourselves and to humanity in general, generating mainly anthropocentric thinking. But man is only one of the elements of nature that surrounds him and it is dangerous to have such a limited vision of reality, there is no future for men without respect and love for the world around them and if we learn to love a flower, a tree, a bird or a river we are already loving ourselves and our neighbor. The greatest lesson comes to us precisely from nature and from the harmony that regulates it, just like in well-organized music in which there is space for everyone and everyone is important and thanks to this plurality the music sounds better and becomes harmony.

Legnomadre is however an excellent translation of the strictly artistic maturation of the Salento musician which goes beyond the spiritual action already emerged in the previous recording work, linking the new project with the necessary stylistic cohesion to the never dormant passions towards musical worlds hitherto never explored such as example those of Cuban and Brazilian music. In this he is supported and helped by a series of extraordinary co-protagonists in a state of grace such as William Greco on piano and Dario Congedo on drums, the nucleus of the by now historic trio of Bardoscia, but also the very important new entries of Simone Padovani (among the most attentive and prepared Italian percussion specialists) and of the "master name" of Gabriele Mirabassi, one of the most loved and celebrated clarinetist from Perugia of modern times. It is not enough. The Perugia Chamber Orchestra was called upon to give even greater depth to many themes, grown up with an Umbria Jazz behind it that taught colors, ductility and plasticity to the otherwise serious universe of origin. The inclusion systematically manages to provide considerable artistic depth to many projects, first of all that "Altissima Luce, Laudario di Cortona" recorded by the Orchestra with Paolo Fresu, Daniele di Bonaventura, Marco Bardoscia and Michele Rabbia. The rare fruit of this way of thinking about music is a variegated world capable of exploring and exciting with the additional "specialty" of being able to differentiate the various levels of design depth which in other words is equivalent to the ability to be creative and never repetitive even on a purely stylistic level. This is why Legnomadre is a work of special and original freshness, an unequivocal sign of the maturation of one of the most enlightened contemporary Italian musicians. The extra touch in the featurings of the work is finally represented by the presence of Alessandro Mannarino whose versatility is one with that of.

Tracklist:
01. Legno madre
02. Lágrimas Negras
03. Peace
04. Abitare poeticamente il mondo
05. Madeira
06. Sequoia
07. Otto il pirata
08. Chica y Nano
09. Palo Santo
10. Legno madre (reprise)


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