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Shining Kilimanjaro 07:33
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Blue Africa 04:21
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Lion’s Trip 07:09
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Ya-Hamba 07:50
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Quicksand 04:02
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Prayer 04:56
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DK Blues 07:21
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Freedom and Flowers 03:23
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Magic Wave 05:08
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At Nightfall 05:36
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Gerson “The Dog” Rumba 04:24
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Recorded mixed and mastered on January 16/17, 2013,
at ArteSuono Recording Studios, Cavalicco (Udine), by Stefano Amerio.

Settimo album Caligola per Claudio Cojaniz che, dopo aver esplorato il
blues, Duke Ellington e Thelonious Monk, torna all’Africa, ovvero alle
radici del jazz. Registrato in duo con il prezioso contrabbasso del
corregionale Franco Feruglio, «Blue Africa» si presenta come un
suggestivo viaggio attraverso le diverse tradizioni musicali africane,
rivisitate con l’originale creatività di un improvvisatore del nostro tempo. L’Africa, filtrata soprattutto attraverso Abdullah Ibrahim, era già
comparsa in due recenti lavori come «Howl», con la NION Orchestra
(African Market e Medicine Man), e «The hearth of the Universe», alla
testa dell’A.P. Trio (A.P. dance, Great spirit e Teacher in the Universe).
Dice di questo meditato ed intenso lavoro, il pianista friulano: “Il duo si
esprime su atmosfere d’Africa, viaggiando in modo originale tra nenie
materne ed infantili, evocazioni di blues astrali e danze rituali. Non rifà il verso a questa grande e variegata cultura, non c’è nessuna invasione: con grande rispetto, invece, ne trae fonte d’ispirazione e la reinterpreta. L’Africa come grande e amorevole Madre quindi, presente ed eterna.
Una grande Arte questa che sa riportarci dentro un gioco antidepressivo e serio, come seri sono i bambini quando giocano… intanto l’uomo bianco è sempre più scolorato”. Ma è invece ricca di colori la sua musica, una tavolozza che va dal rosso fuoco di Lion’s trip, al rosa tenue di At nightfall, ballad con mood jazzistico dai toni crepuscolari, per rifare il verso al titolo. Ma è soprattutto il contrabbasso suonato con l’archetto da Feruglio, a conferire un andamento maestoso alle melodie ipnotiche di Shining Kilimanjaro, Ya–Hamba, sommessa preghiera, e Freedom & flowers, che ha le cadenze di una dolce ninna–nanna. Ma il “bambino” che c’è in Cojaniz ha improvvisi scatti, sa sognare ma anche correre a perdifiato, sa accelerare i ritmi, tornando ad un blues più energico, con DK blues e Quicksand, guardando rispettivamente Monk ed Ellington, o coinvolgendoci nella gioiosa danza caraibica di Gerson “the dog” rumba. Disco da ascoltare tutto d’un fiato, sorta di viaggio a ritroso nel tempo, ma non tanto per fuggire il presente, quanto piuttosto per tentare di ridargli dignità.

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This is the seventh Caligola Cd for Claudio Cojaniz. After exploring
blues, Ellington and Monk, he goes back to Africa, to the roots of Jazz.
«Blue Africa» was recorded with the invaluable double bass of Franco
Feruglio, who comes from the same area. The album is a striking
journey through the different African music traditions, reworked with the original creativity of a contemporary improviser. Mostly sifted through Abdullah Ibrahim, Africa had already appeared in two of his recent works like «Howl», with the NION Orchestra (African Market and Medicine Man), and «The hearth of the Universe», with the A.P. Trio (A.P. dance, Great spirit and Teacher in the Universe). The Friulian pianist tells us about this meditated and intense work: “the duo expresses itself making use of African atmospheres, moving in an original way between maternal and children’ sing–songs, evocations of astral blues and ritual dances. It doesn’t hit off this great and variegated culture, there isn’t any invasion: instead the Cd takes inspiration from it and reinterprets it with great respect. Thus Africa as great and loving Mother, present and eternal. It’s a great Art this one that can take us back into an antidepressant and serious game, like children are serious when they play… in the meantime the white man is more and more faded”. Instead Cojaniz’s music is full of colours, a palette that goes from the flame red of Lion’s trip, to the soft pink of At nightfall, a ballad characterized by a jazzy mood with twilight tones. However it’s most of all the double bass played with the bow by Feruglio that gives a maestoso modulation to the hypnotic melodies of Shining Kilimanjaro, Ya–Hamba, whispered prayer, and Freedom & flowers, which has the lilt of a sweet lullaby. Nevertheless the “child” inside Cojaniz suddenly changes his direction: he can dream but run breathlessly too, he can speed up the rhythms, going back to a more vigorous blues, in DK blues and Quicksand, taking inspiration from Monk and Duke respectively, or involving us in the joyful Caribbean dance of Gerson “the dog” rumba. An album to listen to all the way through, travelling back in time in a way, but not so much to escape the present as to try to give it dignity again.

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released August 16, 2023

Claudio Cojaniz (piano), Franco Feruglio (double bass).

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