CNI explores, for the first time, with its new "The
Dream" release the jazz world and that of fusion influenced by jazz itself .
Both graphic and packaging, enriched by a snapshot made by the Roman photographer
Massimo Buzi, are made ""ad hoc" and indicate henceforth a productive
standard ready to become in prospect- a real hot and stylish format.
A first class album whose originality is on one side due to the atypic trio :
Nico Di Battista (guitar, bass & keyboards) who cooperated with James
Senese, Tullio de Piscopo, Nino Buonocore and Lina Wertmuller until he recently met
Solomon Burke;
Gianluca Fuiano (drums and percussions) well-known session man who played with
Kin Koba, Los Gitanos, Mediterranti and Solomom Burke;
Rrok Jakaj, (violin) founder of the Optional String Quartet, he is member of
several symphonic and philarmonic orchestras, as well as the artistic director of Solomon
Burke group
and on the other side:
to the introduction and utilization of interesting innovations and technical
characteristics (Di Battista plays the DB guitar which is a sole instrument in the world
created by him and which allows to reproduce contemporaneously guitar melodies and bass
lines).
Dulcis in fundo : the music highly refined and catching on the same time,
rich of instrumental impros but with no presumption to a "virtuoso" effect; the
Mediterranean warmth of the melodia make possible that all references and homages of which
the production is rich with from the "Piazzolla" tango to flamenco
from Al di Meola to Paco de Lucia, from Bireli Lagrčne to Stephane Grappelli and so on
in no way diminish the potential of "THE DREAM" , continuum sonoro,
which reveals itself as an album of great re-elaboration and consciuos of the best results
of the musical "latin" tradition.
All tracks are oustanding such as, for example, "Sahara","Blue Night"
and "Sortie", which are rich of intense and soft athmospheres or
those compelling and powerful ones such as "Tango for Piazzolla", "Angras
dos Reis, and "Dedalo".
Among a multitude of musical genres Nico di Battista has with no doubt his own style
made of real "good music" !