‘Rock Cut’ by Scosse Elettriche | Album Premiere
Exclusive album premiere of ‘Rock Cut’ by the Italian kraut-jazz duo Scosse Elettriche, out May 6th via Non Piangere Dischi.
Scosse Elettriche is the new experimental creation by Riccardo Sinigaglia and drummer percussionist Davide Zolli. The meeting between two generations of free musicians. Another kosmische interpretation of the thin line between rock and avant-garde merging electronic music, impressionist and free-jazz piano, minimalism and krautrock.
“The Mountain is the bond between Earth and Sky. Its solitary summit reaches the sphere of eternity, and its base spreads out manifold foothills into the world of mortals. It is the way by which man can raise himself to the divine, and by which the divine reveals itself to man.” These thoughts on Rene Daumal’s 1952 Mount Analogue, looks totally in tune with Riccardo Sinigaglia and Davide Zolli’s music, which continues in that vein of pure space-rock with a touch of avantgarde and krautrock.
Indeed behind the exquisite psychedelia of ‘Rock Cut’ we see a whole imaginary of high altitudes and wide visions. Looks like the impulse of some peak climbers regulate the structure of sounds, sounds that are the call towards the higher inaccessible. The charm of the unknown steal our souls every time the wildest natural phenomena appear to us, the sudden arrival of the fog and wind, omens of storms, volcanic events, mantric thunder roars on nightfall, the metamorphic fragrance of mosses and lichens and the secret shining of stones, and the meeting of hurricanes swollen streams.
In this sense, the music of Scosse Elettriche can evoke this type of images and still profess an organic vision of the natural world. From a symphonic mood of galactic celebration we can descend into the solemn void of clearings and highlands, up to the desert of new Monument Valleys, where baroque flutes become Navajo shamans during rain ceremonies or occult calls for buffaloes in the meadows. The striding drums and the ambiance bells seem to trace our rhythm of march, and accentuate the uncertainty of the steepest and most dangerous slopes. It’s always a pendulum between waiting and action, between a sense of wild adventure and a silent meditation. In the lighthearted moments around the fire the sound goes more jazzy, and the tired spirit can glide, ready to watch the luminous stars in the highest skies of Himalaya.
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