Stefano Battaglia Trio
Songways
Stefano Battaglia piano
Salvatore Maiore double bass
Roberto Dani drums
Euphonia Elegy
Ismaro
Vondervotteimittis
Armonia
Mildendo Wide Song
Monte Analogo
Abdias
Songways
Perla
Babel Hymn
Recorded April 2012
ECM 2286
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Italian pianist Stefano Battaglia and his trio develop directions established on their acclaimed 2011 release “The River of Anyder” with a new selection of chants, hymns and dances, all written by Battaglia and inspired by descriptions of visionary places from art and literature – from Alfred Kubin, Jonathan Swift or Charles Fourier to Italo Calvino. “Songways” finds “a new harmonic balance between archaic modal pre-tonal chant and dances, pure tonal songs and hymns and abstract texture,” Battgalia says, “thus documenting the natural development of the Trio life, with a larger space for action from the drums”.
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