Jolly Mare Among the Maestro's Machines
Working with Umiliani's daughters and the analog machines their father left behind, Fabrizio Martina describes 'La luce dell'alba' as "less a tribute than a conversation across time."
Italy
The Voyage Down — Fausto Romitelli Descends Into Repertoire
Romitelli embraced psychedelic rock for its destabilizing potential rather than its commercial appeal, and a new recording of 'An Index of Metals' marks his passage from avant-garde specialist to repertoire composer two decades after cancer took him at forty-one in 2004.
The Lightning Bolt Sound and Diamond Nature of Zu
Three decades into their existence, Italy's experimental metal/rock/jazz trio release 'Ferrum Sidereum,' a double-album that draws on meteoric iron symbolism, Tibetan philosophy, and the practice of creating inner silence amid external chaos.
Set Adrift on a Sea of Strings — Bryan Senti's Immigrant Symphonies
The BAFTA-winning composer traces his parents' displacement from Colombia and Cuba across two albums, 'Manu' and 'La Marea', blending string orchestras with techno's rhythmic complexity and the "magical realism" of Latin American folk traditions.
RuinsZu — The Precise Collision of Ruins and Zu
Italian bass, Japanese drums, and a rambunctious musical mindset brought together Zu and Tatsuya Yoshida for twenty-three electrifying European shows, culminating in their Jazzisdead Festival performance captured on a new live album.