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Rating: "MACROmicroCosmi" is the debut album by Piertomas Dell'Erba and Simone Porcelli.
Conceived and recorded in Rome, the work can be listened to in one breath. Sax and piano perfectly blend with electronic influences in a versatile jazz that deeply engages and explores. There are harmonic explorations that are never obvious and effects in perspective that allow the soloism of both artists to be savored and simultaneously reveal their distinct yet well-blended personalities.
MACROmicroCosmi is a narrative that begins with "L'ultimo principio", the intensely captivating solo piano opening track, which immediately piques interest and softly eases into the listening experience, instantly revealing the dialectic soul of the entire work: contractions and relaxations in a new and experimental sound that never tires because it is unpredictable and refined. Dell'Erba's sax, always extremely narrative, brings out the multifaceted personality of the Roman artist, even when it recounts backstage "L'origine dell'idea" of MACROmicroCosmi: great space for electronics that create the best background without ever being relegated to the background. Porcelli's piano is there, orderly and pleasantly melodic.
In "Doppia vista", the samples play on the piano-sax dialectic, with a delightful effect. With "Antitetiche percezioni", that dialectic becomes contrast: Porcelli's intense piano playing anticipates a bit the intimacy of "With all my soul" in a space jazz that doesn't fill spaces but creates them. Dell'Erba's sax grows hoarser and livelier, almost a declaration of identity. Meanwhile, the spectrum of electronics blurs the edges, in a pleasant mix that, when exaggerated, leads to the cry of "Psicodramma": here, veiled by the protagonism of effects, a tormented lyricism emerges which will be rediscovered in the melancholic sensuality of "With all my soul". Special and evocative, Dell'Erba's sax finds, in the slowest track of the collection, warmer sounds, gently laid on the harmonies of a never-banal piano, in a precious and never overused remembrance that unexpectedly fades into that same secret space from which it originates, leaving in the suspension of the apparent unfinished, the opportunity for the listener to "complete" the narrative by sharing their own emotional thoughts.
And from the intimate tensions of "With all my soul" that ideally close Dell'Erba's Microcosm, it moves towards the Macro with "Dissertazioni di un Cosmopolita", animated by brilliant tribal jazz experiments. Central once again are the percussions that mark the narrative time, dictating its emotional rhythm. The afro influences interact with an extremely elegant piano: beautiful samples that infuse a taste of world music into the sax of the cosmopolitan. Harmonic is "Il futuro contemporaneo" of the Roman experiment: here the dialectic becomes as constructive as it can be between different personalities that know how to listen to each other. Dell'Erba and Porcelli narrate, confront, and meet in a third meditative dimension that gathers ideas before the closure of "Gratuite emozioni". A return to the sound from the origin of the idea that fades, preparing for a new, and never final, beginning.
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