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Notturni

by Meroli

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1.
Nightfall 07:28
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2.
Evening Lights 12:12
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3.
Where Are You? 08:55
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4.
In The Middle Of The Darkness 07:24
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5.
Triptych Of The Deep 16:01
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6.
At The End Of The Night 07:14
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7.
Morning Star 06:49
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8.
Dawn 06:54
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This work reflects and is imbued with nocturnal atmospheres that are simultaneously rarified and crepuscular. This is an idea that has taken root in my thoughts, influenced by Chopin’s immortal Nocturnes, a “Journey at the end of a night” (Louis Ferdinand Celine), a solitary walk in the abandoned suburbs of a metropolis (Taxi Driver), or an escape at full speed on a fireball after a thunderstorm (Clockwork Orange). A night experienced temporally and spiritually, from dusk to dawn, in all the colors and shades it offers. A physical, sleepless, mysterious, decadent and romantic night, the night of the soul with its anguish and infinite solitude. The night of lovers and dreamers, a night that gives way to the blinding light of a new day, to a new hope for a new life, for regeneration.

This is a record enriched by my musical influences, from Duke Ellington to David Axelrod, from Bernard Hermann to Pink Floyd. Jazz, electronica, psychedelia and oriental influences accompany us along the winding streets of the night and the unconscious. A layered, dense and simultaneously evanescent and nebulous sound with composite rhythms that blend acoustic drums and drum machines, textural pianos and synthesizers, with melodies projected by wind sections and metallic dissonances that jostle with each other in the dark evening. A farrago of acoustic instruments and electronic effects and machines, the past and the present, the dreamt and the real, the deep shadows and the moonlight, the unbridled fantasy and the compulsive search for reality. This is floating, cinematic music full of modern echoes yet anchored to tradition, a bold attempt to make the dream come true and transpose it into sound.

Alessandro Meroli.

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released February 19, 2021

composed and produced by Alessandro Meroli
co-produced by Alberto Sansò
mixed by Alberto Sansò and Alessandro Meroli
mastered by Max Paparella at Groove Sound Design

Alessandro Meroli: alto sax, baritone sax, flutes, keyboards and sample
Alberto Sansò: electronics, beat programming, machines and additional keys
Maurizio Piancastelli: trumpet on 1,4,5 and 6
Michele Vignali: tenor sax on 1, 4 and 6
Nico Menci: synth bass, keyboards and piano on 1, 3, 7 and 8
Stefano De Bonis: electric piano and synth bass on 2
Alberto Capelli: guzheng on 6 mohan veena on 8
Ivano Zanotti: drums on 2 and 4

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Meroli Italy

Baritone sax, alto sax, flute, composition.

Meroli is an experienced musician with collaborations in various musical fields. He’s been performing with Splatterpink since the ‘90s – one of the hottest Italian jazz-core groups ever conceived, and enjoyed two albums on Cuneiform Records with prog rockers Deus ex Machina. ... more

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