Sandro Gibellini
Trufò

One of the most surprising things about cinema is how it manages to sublimate every insignificant daily gesture into a unique and epic act. The sound of footsteps on the street or the detail of a dreamy gaze; it's as if the director elevates the prosaic reality to something transcendent that people call art.

This process is wonderfully accomplished in the films of François Truffaut (the director honored by this album), in the shades of light of his black and whites, in the disarming lightness and elegance with which he tackles the most difficult themes. In this album, Sandro Gibellini is no less, and the comparison may seem forced, but already from the theme of Lago Lucone, we can find all the crystalline poetry of the French director: a soft and melancholic melody, perfect in its simplicity, followed by the solo of the excellent Roberto Soggetti at the piano.

The melodic ability in improvisation of the Brescia guitarist is something magnificent, every note shines with a special light, every phrase is as if it tells a story, without the need for unnecessary virtuosities, but with a consistency and an emotional tension always alive, never predictable.

In this storytelling work, Gibellini's counterpart is the aforementioned Soggetti, who in turn paints soundscapes with equal lightness and class (Bill Evans would surely be proud...), while Marco Micheli on drums and Alfred Kramer on double bass provide a rhythmic backdrop that is both timely and stimulating. If the improvisational skills of our artist are indisputable, then we must talk about his compositional ones: all the tracks of this work (except for "Quando Dormi" by Soggetti) are the result of Sandro's pen and form an album as homogeneous in style as it is rich and varied in genres. Alongside the ballads, there are tracks like "Soul Sister" which lean more towards blues or like the splendid bossanova "Buon Cammino", one of the rhythms most loved by Gibellini.

I can say that "Trufò" was the soundtrack of this last summer of mine and, if it stayed in the player for so long, it's because with each listen it took me by the hand in narrating places and sensations with melodies that entered my heart, with lightness and poetry, and the dream transforms life into what some have called art...