Free Ambient Trio
Live in Manhattan, Live in Rome

Piertomas Dell'Erba: sax
Simone Porcelli: synth
Leonardo De Rose: double-bass

«Everything is a perfect undulating motion, like quicksilver». Bukowski.

No words could better fit to describe it, the Free Ambient Trio couldn't have presented it better: the perfect depiction of a wave that tirelessly fills voids and creates, each time in an interestingly different way, new emotional spaces. This is what comes out from listening to the first work of the Roman Trio. Live in Manhattan, Live in Rome is the effective narration of sound images that take shape from the improvisational synergy of Leonardo De Rose's double-bass, Simone Porcelli's synths, and Piertomas Dell'Erba's sax.

Rome, December 12, 2010: the three musicians meet and encounter the audience at the Teatro Manhattan in Rome. An ambitious experimental project takes the stage, breaking conventional listening habits and asserting itself with a pleasantly unexpected freshness, even to the ears of those who don't consider themselves fans of the genre. Live in Manhattan, Live in Rome comes directly, it is piercing, intense, it is the natural product of a perfect understanding.

Intentional-improvisation could be defined as the delightful paradox suggested by the Trio: an improvisation that fills and stuffs with details the suggestive five titles proposed by Dell'Erba. Stimulating and timely notes at the margin of listening, almost snapshots. Emotional interstices to be filled with care. And so, if «bitter [is] a run that is slowed down for fear that something might force us to choose a destination», sweet is the destination chosen and reached, without fears, without brakes, by the emotional path created by the three Roman artists. Five proposals, five listening directions: Psicodramma (11,57), World in Manhattan, World in Rome (8,53), With all my soul (8,15), Sublime (10,30), Le tragicomiche vicende dell'Orgoglio (14,03).

Psicodramma is intense, penetrating, with a double-bass solo of invasive lyricism. The sax is heartbreaking and painful in the persistent panic of its dystonias.

World in Manhattan, World in Rome describes boreal atmospheres. Fields gradually outline themselves, almost bucolic at first thanks to Porcelli's synth flutes. The percussive double-bass of De Rose marks the time, sets the start of a new world, a new narration. You travel through contrasts. It's a continuous addition of descriptive elements. The sax of Dell'Erba is ordering, rational. The movement changes. Spaces remain in the background, in a frantic chase of time. The city in motion appears. It’s Rome, it’s Manhattan. Off. Calm returns.

With all my Soul (MACROMicroCosmi, 6, 2010) returns to a new form in this spontaneous interpretation by the Trio. The theme is the same, but it is barely discernible, so rich is the creative input of the synths. New and captivating are the proposals of the dialogue: on one side the skillful weaving of the double-bass, on the other the luminous threads, now laid out, now tangled, of the sax. The plot, once again, is perfect. The understanding and emotional tensions from 5'06'' are beautiful. Precious.

Sublime. The most interesting track of the album. Not surprisingly, "sublime". To be savored with closed eyes. Almost magical, dreamlike suspensions. The sax of Dell'Erba is alive.

Le tragicomiche vicende dell'Orgoglio. Impactful. It presents itself this way, without too many allusions, with a firm, clear step, marked by the double-bass of De Rose. Intense and entertaining, truly tragicomic. Brilliant. The unexpected digressions of Porcelli are beautiful.

Note:

The official videoclip of the Trio is very beautiful. The drawings and animations by artist Andrea Costingo are captivating, who also co-signed, along with Piertomas Dell'Erba, the album booklet. 

To get it: here

Good emotions to everyone.

(Eliana Augusti)