Claudio FASOLI tenor & soprano sax Michelangelo DECORATO piano Pietro LEVERATTO double bass Marco ZANOLI drums

The music of A long trip 22 confirms Claudio Fasoli's personal expressive depth, the music is fully aimed at the message, the atmosphere, the thematic perception, the emotional impact, the spark of the project itself. There are no excessive improvisations, no sonic sensationalism, no over-the-top melodic concessions, only and exclusively the act of faith, the immersion in an ambitious project that requires extraordinary sensitivity. The synchrony and harmony of the quartet is surprising, the meticulous sequence and intermittence of the sax, of the tempos, an almost surreal balance where the soul of the music itself seems to guide the musicians, through a ghost orchestration without a master, which flows with the refinement of the sounds, the efficiency of the emotions. A long trip 22 expands Claudio Fasoli's artistic vision, it is made up of independent pieces, with different colors but at the same time united, a single body or pieces of a vibrant, finely crafted sound mosaic; it does not present fragmentations, distortions, anomalies, in their sinuous and sensorial guise the tracks follow one another with a circularity, like our soul attracted by this simply magnetic disc. Claudio Fasoli says: “With A long trip 22 I move on all possible territories within the sphere of what belongs to the harmony of Western music and I always discover possibilities for development. But I do not shy away from more orthodox or ‘out of harmony’ solutions, or even banal ones if necessary, I do not want to have limits or preconceptions. Respecting the concept of unpredictability of developments which is something that has intrigued me a lot for at least twenty years. From a structural point of view I prefer asymmetrical forms, or not necessarily symmetrical ones”.