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Filippo Deorsola’s ‘Anaphora’ Lexicon 1 (April 22nd, Auand Records)
Control must be taken back in order to let loose again!
Italian pianist Filippo Deorsola brings together his Anaphora piano trio this April for Lexicon I, an album set on challenging the very jazz traditions that influence them.
Highly original and frequently unexpected, 11 compositions pull at the threads of avant-garde, straight-ahead jazz, contemporary classical music and even the blues, leaving the listener guessing at every turn.
Intimate moments of solo-piano, textural explorations of upright bass and explosions of rock-fueled drum grooves all contribute to the indefinable chaos of Anaphora’s experimentations.
Born through a chance meeting at a jam session CODARTS conservatoire in Rotterdam, Anaphora is driven by a desire to explore the relationship between a musical form, improvisation, and one’s innate ability to navigate a musical landscape.
In Jonathan Ho Chin Kiat (double bass) and Ap Verhoeven (drums) Deorsola has found two fellow musicians who embrace the genreless forward-thinking nature of contemporary jazz and prove willing conspirators in the search for breaking down expectations - both their own, and those of the listener.
In Deorsola’s own words, by eroding the comforts of familiarity, structure, and time and thrusting themselves into the unexpected, “the automatisms of the body are put into question. Control must be taken back in order to let loose again”.
Turning words into action, Deorsola’s Bachelor Thesis research into Improvisation was presented at the 2020 Arts and Technology Conference in Porto, and he founded the M.A.D. Collective (Mutually Assured Deconstruction), a space where visual artists, authors, performers and academics come together to think of new ways of inquiry into the events and things around us.
All told, Lexicon I is both a fascinating listening experience for fans of contemporary music, as well as a hint at what’s to come in the future from Deorsola and his compatriots.
credits
released April 22, 2022
Filippo Deorsola - piano
Jonathan Ho Chin Kiat - double bass
Ap Verhoeven - drums
Rebekka Salomea - voice on #11
All Compositions by Filippo Deorsola published by Jazz Engine/SENA except track 3,7,10 (collective impro)
LOFT - Tonart Studios Cologne
Recorded 22/23 November 2022 by Christian Hecks and Lukas Lohner
Mixed 13/14 December 2022 by Christian Hecks at LOFT - Tonart Studios Mastered February 2022 by Rodrigo Ballesteros at Ballesteros Studios, Madrid
Cover photo by Emre Namli
Inner Photo by Ravi Thakur
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