Artist: Giovanni Sollima & Alessandro Gandola
Title: Astrolabioanima
Cat Number: SLAMCD516
Year released: 2008
Format: CD & all digital platforms
Barcode: 5028386032625
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From the creative impulse of Italian cellist Giovanni Sollima and saxophonist Alessandro Gandola comes ‘Astrolabioanima’, a completely new musical project, an original combination in which composition and improvisation occur simultaneously.
The unusual instrumental combination of cello and soprano saxophone creates a broad crossover spanning from the two artists’ backgrounds in Baroque music and jazz to include other musical genres such as rock, minimalism and folk music, with no self-imposed limits. The album is the official creative documentation that led to the Astrolabioanima project. It contains the live recording of compositional improvisation, which turned out to be real compositions capable of thrills and surprise, thanks to the strength and freshness of a true creative gesture, documented in the immediacy of becoming.
Giovanni Sollima: cello, voice
Alessandro Gandola: soprano saxophone
All compositions by Giovanni Sollima & Alessandro Gandola.
Produced by Alessandro Gandola.
Digital recordings taken from performance in Bellagio 18-20 March, 2006.
Digitally remixed and edited at Spinosa studio in Milan.