La Fòla De L'oca/Overtime

Tracklist

1. Quid Est Ergo Tempus?14:08
2. Achanés Tu Aiónos7:35
3. Apidón Eis To Tachos13:39
4. In Te Anime Meus10:33
5. Potamós10:05
6. Amid Time9:34
7. Aión10:26

Personnel & credits

• Simon Andreas Fredheim FolkvordAlto Saxophone [Alto Sax]
• Gregorio ButiCello
• Marco IgnotiClarinet [Clarinets]
• Roberto BonatiComposed By [Composition], Conductor [Conduction]
• Chiara BertaCover [Cover Photos By], Photography By [Cover And Booklet Photos By]
• Andrea Grossi (3)Double Bass
• Roberto DaniDrums, Percussion
• Roberto MorelliGraphic Design
• Luca PerciballiGuitar
• Roberto BonatiLiner Notes [English]
• Simone CoenMixed By, Mastered By
• Mario ArcariOboe
• Edoardo FornaciariPhotography By [Roberto Bonati Portrait By]
• Corrado CristinaRecorded By
• Riccardo Luppi (2)Soprano Saxophone [Soprano Sax], Flute
• Simon HerberholzTenor Saxophone [Tenor Sax]
• Lucius Annaeus SenecaText By [Quote On Cover (Latin)]
• Fabius MeyTrombone
• Benjamin LöfgrenTrumpet, Flugelhorn
• Michael GassmannTrumpet, Flugelhorn
• Tommaso SalvadoriVibraphone
• Paolo BottiViola
• Finn Henrik StamerViolin
• Ingrid Berg MehusViolin
• Giulia ZaniboniVocals

About this record

Genre

Jazz, Classical

Style

Avant-garde Jazz, Contemporary Jazz, Contemporary

Discogs

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Press

“Scrittura e apporti improvvisativi risultano sempre in perfetto equilibrio”Musica Jazz ↗

“a glorious album of orchestral jazz that combines a winning mix of thoughtfulness, technical prowess and beauty”UK Jazz News ↗

Reception

This 2023 ParmaFrontiere release drew genuine, if niche, critical attention in the Italian and UK jazz press. Italy's leading jazz monthly Musica Jazz ran a review by Alberto Bazzurro (August 2023) that praised the ambitious seven-part suite on the theme of Time, singling out the balance between scored writing and improvisation across the orchestra. UK Jazz News gave it an enthusiastic notice, framing it as orchestral jazz that pairs thoughtfulness with technical command and beauty, and highlighting vocalist Giulia Zaniboni's settings of the Augustine texts and a rambunctious Luca Perciballi electric-guitar passage in "Apidón Eis To Tachos." Europe Jazz Network carried a detailed descriptive write-up of the concept and personnel. Coverage is real but limited in volume, typical for a small Italian-label large-ensemble date; no AllMusic, JazzTimes, or Down Beat review of this specific title was located (All About Jazz hosts reviews of OTHER Bonati albums, not this one, and 403s bots). Note: the UK Jazz News page returns HTTP 403 to automated fetches, so its text was read only via search snippets.

Recognition

No formal awards were found for this title. Its principal recognition is institutional and festival-based: it was a commissioned centerpiece of the ParmaJazz Frontiere festival within Parma's Italian Capital of Culture 2020/21 program, and it functioned as a pan-European academy collaboration drawing players from six conservatories (Oslo, Nürnberg, Hamburg, Gothenburg, Stavanger, Glasgow). Critical recognition came via the Musica Jazz and UK Jazz News reviews. No DownBeat/JazzTimes year-end notice or academic citation specific to this album was located.

Background

Roberto Bonati (Parma-based double bassist, composer and conductor) wrote this large-ensemble work as a commission tied to Parma's designation as Italian Capital of Culture 2020/21. It is a suite on the theme of Time, weaving in texts by Saint Augustine (Confessions), Heraclitus, Marcus Aurelius (Meditations) and Walt Whitman (Leaves of Grass), with sung passages by vocalist Giulia Zaniboni. The title, roughly "the goose's tale" / a wild-goose-chase refrain, nods to Bonati's Emilian countryside roots as a metaphor for the mystery of past, present and future. The roughly 18-piece ParmaFrontiere Orchestra was augmented by six young musicians drawn from European conservatories in Oslo, Nürnberg, Hamburg, Gothenburg, Stavanger and Glasgow. Recorded live before an audience at the 17th-century Teatro Farnese in Parma on 2-3 (and 10) October 2021 during the ParmaJazz Frontiere festival, after a week of rehearsals; mixed and mastered August 2022; released early 2023 on ParmaFrontiere (PF-CD011). Michael Gassmann appears as a trumpet/flugelhorn player within the orchestra (credited Appearance), confirmed in both the Musica Jazz formation listing and the Europe Jazz Network/Bandcamp personnel.