Thinking Sketches, by ALBERTO ZANINI

Thinking Sketches

by ALBERTO ZANINI

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1.	Sketches 01:23	buy track
2.	1967 02:09	buy track
3.	The Boots Are Not in the Cellar 05:37	buy track
4.	Three Dead Kittens 04:13	buy track
5.	He Has Never Been Spoiled 06:32	buy track
6.	Talking Sketches 03:58	buy track
7.	Bricks Fall 01:08	buy track
8.	Are Happy Seasons 04:49	buy track
9.	Bodies Like Rag Dolls 03:50	buy track
10.	You're Not a Real Man 03:51	buy track
11.	Horse Poop Dreams 03:50	buy track
12.	Horse Poop Reminds 05:03	buy track
13.	Memory's Sketches 01:43	buy track
14.	Old Healthy Habits 06:40	buy track
15.	Heroes 03:33	buy track

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1) Sketches; 2) 1967; 3) The Boots Are Not in the Cellar; 4) Three Dead Kittens; 5) He Has Never Been Spoiled; 6) Talking Sketches; 7) Bricks Fall; 8) Are Happy Seasons; 9) Bodies like Rag Dolls; 10) You’re Not a Real Man; 11) Horse Poop Dreams; 12) Horse Poop Reminds; 13) Memory Sketches; 14) Old Healthy Habits; 15) Heroes (David Bowie).

All compositions, unless otherwise noted, by Alberto Zanini.
Recorded, mixed and mastered in September 2020, at Elettroacustica
Recording Studio, Ardesio (Bergamo), by Diego Bergamini.

Attivo nel jazz d’avanguardia e nel rock sperimentale, Alberto Zanini circa dieci anni fa ha perfezionato la sua tecnica gipsy in Francia. Chi l’avrebbe detto? Eppure, a pensarci bene, le improvvisazioni dei grandi chitarristi manouche, Django Reinhardt in primis, assomigliano molto a dei racconti, non sono soltanto prove muscolari di virtuosismo strumentale. Il chitarrista bergamasco si è quindi perfezionato al
Conservatorio di Milano con Bebo Ferra e Massimo Colombo. In questo melting pot di influenze emerge la sua attitudine per il racconto musicale. Lavora per il teatro e registra colonne sonore per film muti e soprattutto per corti. Né si possono dimenticare le sue recenti collaborazioni con Graziano Gatti, Andrea Ferrari, Francesco Chiapperini e, su tutti, con Roger Rota, così come la sua esperienza da leader di un trio completato da Danilo Gallo e Filippo Sala, di cui ci rimane soltanto «Empty Yellow Thoughts», album del 2017. Il progetto «Thinking Skteches» nasce per raccontare attraverso i suoni un racconto di Giuseppe Goisis, «Alfor, una vita a caso» – lo si può leggere nel corposo booklet del disco – il cui protagonista è costantemente in bilico tra casualità e scelte razionali. Un uomo come tanti, eroe per un giorno, forse, come canta David Bowie in Heroes, che qui viene proposta con un arrangiamento davvero personale. Gli Sketches sono frammenti di melodia, cellule ritmiche che vanno e vengono durante
tutto l’album e ne costruiscono la struttura, tra casualità, improvvisazione e forma. La chitarra e l’elettronica di Zanini, autore degli altri 14 brani, trovano in Gabriele Rubino, clarinetti, Marco Lorenzi, viola, Leonardo Gatti, violoncello, e Luca Mazzola, batteria, dei partner sensibili ed appropriati. Ne è un illuminante esempio il primo brano, sorta di pagina iniziale di appunti. Da ognuno di questi frammenti nascono gli altri brani del disco, in un processo compositivo che è un gioco di alterazione dei diversi parametri musicali: tempo, altezza, intervalli, dinamica e timbro.

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released December 30, 2021

Gabriele Rubino (clarinets), Marco Lorenzi (viola),
Alberto Zanini (electric guitar, electronics), Leonardo Gatti (cello),
Luca Mazzola (drums).

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