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www.paolofresu.it
www.furiodicastri.com
www.antonellosalis.com
In the swift and stormy round of the cultural industry and contemporary life, in which (almost) everything becomes a snapshot, an ephemeral listening, a breathtaking sensation, the PAF Trio, which has been evolving together for over fifteen years, shows an artistic attitude representing one of the most beautiful counterpoints to abridged musical existences. A nose’s thumb at jazzistic abortions, which are so usual in these years of fragile passions.
This longevity is largely due to love, friendship, and commitment towards music, close musicians, art. This reflects the deepness with which the trumpeter Paolo Fresu begins each project since the dawn of the eighties: his quintet is celebrating today its twentieth anniversary, his quartet, recently dissolved, lasted for a decade. Between both was born this encounter of three contrasted, but complementary musical personalities: Fresu, Di Castri and Salis. A deeply atypical triangular formula, in which melodic fineness, harmonic plasticity and rhythmic fugue are joyfully balanced, far from any precariousness. Trumpet and bugle, bass, piano and accordion, play in their natural sound transparency. Even with an electronic modulation or timbre inflection, the sound remains with PAF essentially acoustic.
Fresu, Di Castri, Salis are three wonderful instrument players and highly inspired composers with a very rich musical culture. PAF is a natural convergence of three prolific musical lives, characterised by an astonishing and fruitful open mind: leading Fresu to fly from Michael Nymann to the flamenco Gerardo Nunez, Di Castri to travel with Jon Balke and Dino Saluzzi, Salis to dribble (he is a football fan) past Don Cherry and Nana Vasconcelos.
Whereas CoDoNa meant Colin, Don and Nana, PAF stands for Paolo, Antonello and Furio. But it phonetically evokes the sound of a slap. And this album is a real one!
Antonello starts with a stream of dissonant chords. Furio changes the walking into a dancing bass. It terribly swings and the bugle’s song draws dance steps. A raging piano solo follows it. Salis is having a great time with an eloquent phrase freedom. PAF’s Jazz music, influenced by Miles Davis, crossed by free, swimming in classical chambers, perfumed with tango, contaminated with Latino rhythms and showered with Sardinian tradition, reveals a very funny sense of humour. The bugle solo appreciably becomes soul/blues.
Suddenly, Fresu allows himself a new freedom with an outline of contemporary opera music with funky suggestions. Simultaneously, Salis explodes with a multiplication of alternated major-minor chords and rhythmic counterpoints. The atmosphere is joyful. Then, the trumpet enters the accordion modulation, playing in unison. Salis stretches notes and the bass sings the melody. The theme then becomes almost ritual, and the trumpet transforms it into a highly melancholic love prayer. Coming close to the last measure, a more reflective music starts a falling finale. A woman is suspected to have inspired this composition. … Women!
Brief meaningful interludes make sense when listening to the whole, because this album is like a Russian doll: from one part to the whole repertoire, each theme is a story fit into another larger one. Just like PAF music in the (multiple musical) life of these three musicians.
These nineteen original tunes are integrated in a daily life marked by the removal of someone called Mario. If you like jazz music, if it is a part of your life’s sounds, you may be “Mario” (or Maria).
After hundreds of concerts and two live records, “Morphe” , PAF trio’s first studio album imposes itself as an absolute must.
Arto Adorno
Photograph : Raffaella Cavalieri
Contacts
Agent
Country: France
Name: Franck Feret
Tel: 04 67 59 74 97
Fax: 04 67 59 72 84
E-mail: jmp@jmp.fr
Website: www.jmp.fr
Adress: JAZZ MUSIQUES PRODUCTION
520 rue de la Ducque
34730 PRADES LE LEZ
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