Berlin Sessions (EP), by Luca Sguera

Berlin Sessions (EP)

by Luca Sguera

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1.	May 23rd 05:33 video	buy track
2.	Arp 04:49 video	buy track
3.	Io ho l'impermeabile, tu le ali 07:48 video	buy track

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Italian pianist Luca Sguera’s AKA
Back with a 3-track EP on Auand Records

Coherent, imaginative, contemporary, never indulging in free improvisation mannerism. In short... a recognizable style and a clear approach, ranging from impressionist moments to avant-garde unisons! (Paolo Angeli)

This album was recorded in June 2019 in Berlin, where Luca Sguera (piano, Rhodes, compositions) was living at that time. Francesco Panconesi (tenor sax), Alessandro Mazzieri (bass and electronics) and Carmine Casciello (drums) joined him, experiencing a week together and recording this music, which lives and breathes the energy they shared and created in those days.
The fresh, straightforward writing in all three tracks supports and guides the improvisation, creating moods that can be firm and subtle at the same time. The music portrays a contemporary jazz open to new languages and filled with sophisticated use of electronics (“May 23rd”) and ever-changing explosive perspectives (“Arp”) amplified by both primordial and futuristic timbers. Sguera’s approach, which also informed the previous album (“AKA”, Auand, February 2019), is now more refined, evolving towards new, essential shape.
Similarly to the previous album (in which compositions and improvised pieces alternated in an organic way), the tracklist also includes the freely improvised track “Io ho l'impermeabile, tu le ali” (“I have the raincoat, you have the wings”), whose title comes from a poem by Italian writer Chandra Livia Candiani, and which apparently investigates the opposite method: improvising a composition.

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released April 17, 2020

AKA is:
Luca Sguera - piano, rhodes
Francesco Panconesi - tenor sax
Alessandro Mazzieri - bass, electronics
Carmine Casciello - drums

#1-2 written by Luca Sguera
#3 improvised

Recorded and mixed at JIB Recording Studio, Berlin in June, 2019 by Gert Muller
Mastered at Basement Studio, Vicenza in August, 2019 by Federico Pelle

Produced by AKA
Executive producer Marco Valente
Cover photo by Kenji Yanagawa

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Luca Sguera Siena, Italy

Luca Sguera (1992, Milan, Italy) is a piano player, composer and improviser.
Besides improvisation he investigates composition as layering of signs and meanings, through a practice in which rhythm and timbre play a main role.
He is active in several projects (AKA, She's Analog) with which he released records (Aut, Auand) and performed in festivals and clubs among Italy and Europe. ... more

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