Artist: Giovanni Maier     Album: The Talking Bass     Label: Long Song     Code: LSRCD118

The Talking Bass

  • The Talking Bass

  • Giovanni Maier

  • 04 December 2010

  • LSRCD118

  • Digital, Long Song

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Press Release

Giovanni Maier is an architect. No, not the traditional brick and mortar sense but a true architect of sound. With his latest CD “The talking bass” he is building musical bridges all over the map. The quartet he has assembled for the recording doesn’t just glow, they shine! Crossing and blurring the boundaries of music are what these guys do best and together they seem unstoppable.
There is a deep beauty and rawness in the sound of Giovanni’s compositions.
The bass gives us the illusion of being all places at once. Giovanni designs these musical structures but also puts the hammer to the nail himself, lays it down like a Ferrari on the autobahn and always has time to take us on a road untraveled.
The quartet including Emanuele Parrini on violin and viola, Luca Calabrese on trumpet and flugelhorn and Scott Amendola on drums plays out a ghostly game of cat and mouse that Giovanni lets unfold before out very ears.
The group constructs things that are not just ahead of the times, but seem to  encompass all times. The ensemble allows us to become dreamers side by side with them. We get to wander hand and hand with these musical Griots and feel Giovanni’s bass not only talk, but sing.

-Craig Green

Track List

The Talking Bass
Disk Dosk
Crayon Rouge
Due Cellule
Pampaluna
El Manda
Soft Transitions
Leroy Vinnegar
Wrong Is Right

Personnel

Giovanni Maier: contrabbasso
Emanuele Parrini: violino, viola
Luca Calabrese: tromba, flicorno
Scott Amendola: batteria

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