Our friends at áMARXE have released a wonderful collaboration between Luciano Margorani, Dario D’Alessandro and the legendary Chris Cutler. From the label’s Bandcamp site:
“This project started in April 2012 when I asked Chris to record six rhythmic parts on his own, suggesting he play six different drum parts as if they were finished pieces, following his own inspiration only. Soon after I gave him a few instructions for each piece like: track 1 “a march”, tracks 2 “abstract and quiet”, track 3 “non-rhythmic that slowly becomes rhythmic”, track 4 “a song with changes”, track 5 “another song with changes” and track 6 “slow and rhythmic”.
Chris recorded his parts and sent them back to me already mixed, keeping control of his own sounds,I then asked my bass player friend Luca Pissavini to play and record some improvised electric bass parts on these tracks. Finally, I would have added my electric guitar improvisations. The end result was not very satisfactory also because Chris’ drum parts were not initially conceived for improvisations but for composed pieces or songs, as I had told him. So the drum parts were unused until September 2024, when I asked my singer and multi-instrumentalist friend Dario D’Alessandro, with whom I had already collaborated in recent years in various projects, if he wanted to give me a hand in composed pieces, adding also a vocal element. Dario was happy with my proposal and so we started working separately on the pieces in our home studios, exchanging files until we completed compositions that were completely different from my initial idea back in 2012.– Luciano Margorani”
