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Being aware of all the works published under the name Fabio Zuffanti or any work in which the talented and creative Genoese bassist puts his signature is no small feat. Just to mention the most important projects: Finisterre, La Maschera di Cera, Quadraphonic, Hostsonaten, certainly what's not lacking in Zuffanti is creativity and the ability to explore very diverse genres such as post-rock, progressive rock, electronic music, jazz, folk.
The project "laZona" fits right into these genres, psychedelic post-rock with blends of electronic music and distant echoes of jazz. But let's proceed in order, "laZona" consists of Fabio Zuffanti, Stefano Marelli, and Agostino Macor with the collaboration of Marco Cavani on percussion and Michele Nastasi on trumpet, born in January 2002 when Zuffanti takes a well-deserved break from the main project, Finisterre.
The album develops the piece "Le notti difficili" written by Zuffanti for Finisterre but never published, a piece that in this album will be further elaborated and composed in four parts. Those of you familiar with the albums of Finisterre or La Maschera di Cera should not expect to find in this album the typical progressive atmospheres of the seventies and beyond; on the contrary, this album has little to do with prog except for the length and complexity of the tracks.
An intriguing musical journey to undertake with a mind free from every thought, every connection to reality, just you and the album and nothing else (bury dogs, cats, girlfriends, wives, mothers-in-law in the garden). "Solitudini" and "Babau" welcome you. they caress your face with the intangible notes of Nastasi's trumpet, that whisper and speak of a dream. "Il sogno della scala" awaits you there amidst electronic reverb, distant noises that introduce a guitar in Steven Wilson style (Porcupine Tree version), a lysergic solo that doesn't tire but warms the heart and soul. You will find yourself listening to a Pink Floyd album, but it's not Pink Floyd and you are not dreaming... The atmosphere thins out, becomes subtle, and the notes of the trumpet return, melancholic, poignant, a sweet memory of previous atmospheres, now just voices in the last track "L'equivalenza" that overlap on an electronic backdrop of background noises and dissolve into nothing to make way for silence...
A journey of 44 minutes and 54 seconds, give or take a second, a journey made of indefinite notes that vibrate at the same frequency as the soul, that leave you breathless but with an abundance of infinite emotions. Zuffanti gives us another beautiful album that confirms his immense art and his many ideas, very similar in this to Steven Wilson, who also engages with numerous parallel projects to Porcupine, like No-Man, Blackfield.
A piece of advice, buy the album! if you love this kind of atmosphere, it is really worth it.
As written on their Myspace, "laZona is a place where all desires become reality. Accessing it is very difficult, and those who succeed do not have the courage to enter because they fear that laZona will cater only to the most intimate, dark, and never confessed desires, instead of the apparent ones. We remain on the threshold while outside, slowly, the rain begins to blur the landscape."
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