Rocco De Rosa
Rotte Distratte

LA RECENSIONE

A pianist and composer from Lucania.

It's difficult, very difficult to describe this music... Rocco De Rosa, who are you? "Makisì", to quote the title of one of your pieces? Liquid and murmuring piano against a backdrop of ethnic percussion... And where do these "Distracted Routes" take us, this joyful dance that emanates from a choir of old women from your village, taking flight on the wings of Gabriele Benigni's violin? Wherever our imagination desires, as long as it’s in places where the sun beats strong and you can hear the sound of the mare nostrum. Let yourself be guided by the magical song of the Italo-Turkish Yasemin Sannino ("Sevdali", "Dalgalar") and the myriad of voices, mirroring each other, of the Neapolitan Maria Pia De Vito ("Flumina").

Or perhaps not, in a rigid, geometric, minimalist world that remembers Steve Reich ("Il Male Divino"). And even further away, across the ocean, up and down the Cordillera, in the company of Giovanni Di Cosimo's trumpet, getting soaked in the waters of the Chilean port of "Iquique". Evocative "Passages" of oboe and string quartet, "Luce di ieri" still soft and present, sad village festivals enveloping us in a "Girandola" of brass...

The soundtrack of the world, Mediterranean tradition, the voice of migrant peoples... It's wonderful to travel, but it's equally wonderful to return... "Returning", delicate harp notes and the unmistakable, melancholic harmonica of Riccardo Tesi, "At Home", Jarrett and so much reverb, as in a piece recorded within domestic walls.

What more could one want from life?

A Lucanian, naturally.