DOUBLE CUT

Double Cut is an unusual quartet of two saxophones, a bass, drums and a series of unusual instruments. This project ranges from reworkings of jazz classics to evocations popular and original songs, that are the background to free improvisations from memberships gender.I n the bicentenary of the birth of Adolphe Sax, inventor of the saxophone, Tino Tracanna and Massimiliano Milesi celebrate this instrument in a creative and daring. With a so varied front line could not miss a solid rhythmic as that formed by Giulio Corini and Filippo Sala, two young and impetuous talents of Italian Jazz. A peculiar formation, in which the interplay between all the musicians is a milestone of further musical surprise.

Tino Tracanna: soprano, tenor and baritone saxophones, melodica, flutes, sound objects

Massimiliano Milesi: soprano, alto and tenor saxophones, melodica, flutes, sound object.

Giulio Corini: double bass

Filippo Sala: drums, hank drum, sound objects

SNEER

A cocktail where energy and freedom come together in a sweet and rough mix at the same time.
Rock atmospheres that look elsewhere, towards a poetics of timbre textures that move a lyrical flow decisive in which the writing fearlessly mixes with moments of lucid improvisation and pure psychedelia.

Massimiliano Milesi: tenor saxophones, electronics.

Francesco Baiguera: baritone guitar, electronics

Michele Zuccarelli Gennasi: drums, electronics

DIMIDIAM

Dimidiam is a Latin adjective meaning “half”. Referring to the music, the term represents the nature of this unusual duo, in which the roles are divided between two complementary instruments. Milesi and Papetti (former collaborators in many bands) share out here impromptu arrangements and original compositions. A common tension towards the melody is intertwined with the search for harmonic and timbral spaces and free improvisations. The balance is played by moving the weights continuously and mutually. Sounds and roles change: the saxophone can be a sweet voice or an organ, the bass is a folk guitar, or pure noise and so on. The music is inspired by the popular repertoire’s clarity, combined with the palette of the North-European jazz and American post-rock: DIMIDIAM is a synthetis between the traditional song-form and the exploration of exotic places, partly unknown.

Massimiliano Milesi: tenor saxophone

Giacomo Papetti: acoustic and electric bass

OOFTH

OOFTH draws inspiration from the surrealistic and paradoxical atmospheres of the tale The Ifth Of Oofth by science fiction writer Walter Tevis. The original compositions by the band leader often evoke the soundtracks of science fiction movies: as in the Tevis’ tale, time stream become ambiguous and muddy, moving musical images from a situation to another. The sidereal atmospheres generated by the electric instruments recreate the feeling of displacement experienced by the characters of the Tevis’ tale.

Massimiliano Milesi: tenor saxophone

Emanuele Maniscalco: synthesizers

Giacomo Papetti: bass VI

Filippo Sala: drums

MYRMECOLEON

Myrmecoleon or Lion-ant is a legendary animal that refers to two different traditions: in the first and most widespread it is a very strange animal, in the front part a lion and in the rear part an ant. The Myrmecoleon was born from a lion father and an ant mother but, not being able to feed like the father, who eats meat, or like the mother, who eats herbs, this “lion-ant” dies a few days after birth. Since medieval times it has been considered a symbol of the double human nature, the ferocious and destructive aspect of the lion and the industriousness of the small ant. It also represents the impossibility of self-sustenance (not being able to feed), which makes it more relevant than ever. Myrmecoleon reminds us that the continuous exploitation of the earth and nature carries too high a price and the only possible resource is cooperation. The duo is guided by this principle in the creation of their own music, the ancestral forms of African music meet with modern improvisation without the use of hierarchies. The music of the two protagonists flows freely in an incessant dialogue. A double soul like that of the Myrmecoleon.

Massimiliano Milesi: tenor saxophone

Dudu Kouate: percussions

REITHIA

Reithia is a 3500-year-old deity, a creative, merciful and benevolent Goddess. The mother goddess par excellence. She was always illustrated in benevolent and maternal attitudes, matron of beasts and of the most defenseless creatures; but she was also the goddess of navigation and healing.
She was one of the most widespread divinities in the western Alps in pre-Roman times to testify to the cultural unity that has always united the provinces of Bergamo and Brescia.
This project, made up of two musicians from Brescia and two from Bergamo, was born within the candidacy of the two cities as capital of culture in 2023. Reithia is the most striking example of our common history.
But this Goddess also represents another aspect, even more important.
Those of Bergamo and Brescia were among the provinces hardest hit by the recent Covid epidemic and the project is a symbol of a gradual return to normality after the terrible experience, especially for the musicians who have suffered the most damage due to the blocking of activities.
In the ancient cultures of Veneti, Reti, Camuni, Tromplini and Orobi Reithia was linked above all to births, fertility, health and healing. An excellent example of rebirth through an archetype common to our popular traditions.
This symbol acts as a container for the artistic production of the group which is essentially based on original songs, written by its members, during the period of the lockdown; a sort of artistic diary of the resistance in a dark moment of our days.

Massimiliano Milesi: tenor saxophone

Francesco Baiguera: guitar

Giulio Corini: double bass

Filippo Sala: drums

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