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| CAMILLA BATTAGLIA NEW RELEASE: CÀLÓR OUT TOMORROW Parco della Musica Records presents the new album by musician Camilla Battaglia recorded during the concert at the Casa del Jazz between September and October 2022. A project born after years of research and collaborations with various musicians of the international scene of Berlin and which defines, thanks to the path and background of each of its members, a constant laboratory for sound experimentation. A classic format with voice and piano trio to experiment balances and new morphological axes in the dialogue between the instruments. Four instruments and four voices for a series of compositions that tell of how body and mind communicate, fight, merge or arise from each other barricading themselves behind weak walls of defense and mutual attack. "I wrote the music of this album between the spring and autumn of 2021 between the kitchen of the house where I live in Florence and at the piano in the living room of the house where I live in Berlin." she declarers "They say 'home is where the heart is' but it is rather complicated to clearly define all the facets that make up this simple saying. Are our desires and dreams in the same place where our body is? Do our desires respect the needs of our body? That's what Càlór's music is about: how body and the mind meet and collide, struggling or occasionally uniforming homogeneously." Camilla Battaglia, singer and composer born in 1990, has her musical roots in the language of jazz music with which she grew up musically and which she has expanded over the years towards various contaminations. In 2010 she released her first album as a vocalist accompanied by the trio of Renato Sellani 'Joyspring' (Philology 2010), with a repertoire of songs and originals of mainstream jazz. After graduating in jazz singing at the Siena Jazz University, she obtained the European Jazz Master in Music Performance and Composition at the Rhythmic Music Conservatory in Copenhagen and through the Conservatorium Van Amsterdam and the Jazz Institute in Berlin. The continuous exploration towards compositions and textures and experiencing different artistic realities around Europe led her to the creation of two albums as a composer ("Tomorrow" in 2016 and "EMIT" in 2018), collaborating with international artists from Europe and the States and experimenting in contexts very different from each other: from the jazz-style big band (Orchestra della Sardegna), the orchestra (ONGTJ Orchestra from 2015 to 2022), to the solo performance and multimedia interaction; from the acoustic sound spectrum to the electro-acoustic and electronic one. The project for voice and live electronics, Perpetual Possibility, was previewed for the Musicus Concentus Festival in Florence in 2019 and then landed in Berlin thanks to an artistic residency promoted by Scope Berlin which brought it into relation with the interactive work by light artist Martin Mayer. The Perpetual Possibility album was released last October 2022 and it was hosted in many different performative venues and in various radio programs including Battiti, La stanza della Musica and Mondo Jazz. She is active in various projects as a sideman and as a leader, she is dedicated to contemporary music embracing as many facets as possible from song-form, electronic experimentation, modern jazz, improvisation and durchkomponiert. Camilla Battaglia – voice, live electronics and composition Julius Windisch – piano Nick Dunston – double bass Lukas Akintaya - drums Tracklists 1) hear: a meditation over the ephemerality of sound that develops into a trio track for piano, drums, voice and electronics centred on dynamic and textures contrasts. Fortissimo, pianissimo, acoustic sound and codes. 2) eyes: the structure of a song that changes moving all over the place like the look of the eyes of someone who is observing the ever-changing reality. 3) scent: a piece for double bass and voice that explores the wonder of the connection between smell and memories. 4) hands: a song that is a true celebration of man's sensory nature. 5) sacrum: a piece for drums and electronics, a hymn to the fragile and arduous search for our roots 6) mind air: a piece that is a rapid foray into what is the sound you can experience inside the mind of those who always live torn between opposing tensions. 7) chest: a meditation on the not only peaceful but vital coexistence between the cardiac and pulmonary plexuses in the same space, our chest. A trio of drums, double bass and a processed voice that incessantly repeats the phrase 'hit it!' to underline the subtlety of a balance between such fundamental forces. 8) root: almost 4 minutes in which the voice always repeats the same word 'root' changing from time to time only the melodic intervals, while below there is a long score whose orchestration keeps changing. Radice is my personal ode to Music, my root, my home, my heart. 9) throat: a piece for electronics and voice which is an introduction to the next song 10) my body: a piece for quartet and electronics dedicated to all of us who see the bruises disappear from our bodies but still are feeling great pain, for us who are amazed at how we can still breathe when pain seems unbearable. the song expresses the violent clash between mind and body in a final climax. 11) how much a dollar cost: a cover that has nothing of the cover, but an ode to the poetic text written by Kendrick Lamar. I wrote a suite that takes the listener on a journey to discover the simple and fundamental truth: appearances are deceiving. write your comments about the article :: © 2023 Jazz News :: home page |