Beauty Is In The Distance – Beauty Is In The Distance

Guitarist Luciano Margorani has been active in the Italian experimental music scene
since the mid-80s, as a solo artist, as a member of LA 1919, Ferdinando Faraò’s
Artchipel Orchestra, and Fracture, as well as collaborations with the likes of Chris
Cutler, Derek Bailey, Elliott Sharp, Henry Kaiser, Ferdinand Richard, Bruno
Meillier, Charles Hayward, Giovanni Venosta, Roberto Musci, Gregg Bendian, and
many others. For this 40-minute improvisation he has teamed up with his drummer
from LA 1919, Federico Zenoni, laying down the basic track, and invited The
Muffins’ Dave Newhouse to lay down additional tracks of clarinet, bass clarinet, and
keyboards to complete the piece. Launching somewhere on the rock side of fusion,
the initial burst of energy is a powerful trio of guitar, electric piano, and drums,
winding down into some interesting percussive play with strange noise
accompaniment. While the piece is indeed 40 minutes non-stop, there are a number of
index points breaking it down into nine distinct sections, the second of which is
slower paced, introducing the bass clarinet to the overall mix over bursts of sparkling
electric piano, leading directly into a playful conversation between guitars and bass
clarinet, with Zenoni’s drums erupting into splendid chaotic brilliance midway
through. By the beginning of the fourth section we are again in a more laid-back
mode with a conversation between drums and piano, with guitar adding the highlights
as the piece builds. These alternating and contrasting dynamics that follow through
the piece with different instrumentation taking lead roles at different times as it goes
is the glue that holds it all together and keeps the piece interesting from beginning to
end. While there are many highly energized full-throttle sections to grab the listener
by the jugular, with repeated listens the beauty of the slower parts where there is a
more spacious approach come to light and reveal themselves (all of section six, and a
good chunk of section eight, for example) for their subtle and magical intensity. All
taken, as far as improvisation goes, Beauty Is in the Distance is firing

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