In cerca di cibo

Amazon.com's Best of 2000
Seems simple enough in concept: two Italian improvisers set about making a musical tribute to their homeland. But the music that clarinetist Gianluigi Trovesi and accordionist Gianni Coscia create for In cerca di cibo is anything but simple. The two paint a powerful (and pastoral) aural picture of Italy that is forward-thinking, melodic, and full of weaving instrumental lines. --Jason Verlinde

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Inquisitive, playful, nostalgic, and thoroughly Italian, saxophonist Gianluigi Trovesi pairs with accordionist Gianni Coscia to create arguably his finest album to date. On previous efforts, Trovesi sometimes tried too hard to be a sonic gypsy, diluting his recipe with a little too much funk, regional tunes, or improv. Here, he gets it just right, with heavy dollops of pastoral North Italian folk melodies, heartbreaking Morricone-inspired passages, a hint at tango, and just enough jazz to keep you on your toes. Case in point: somehow the Trovesi-penned "Minor Dance"--from its solemn intro to its swinging second half--makes the perfect bookend for the theme from Il Postino. Translated from Italian, the album's title track is "in search of nourishment." You'll hear that longing in this lyrical music, in the wheezy breaths of Coscia's accordion and the jaunty energy coming from Trovesi's sax. Liner notes by Umberto Eco try to describe this magical, genre-blurring pairing, but it really must be heard. Simply sublime. --Jason Verlinde

Tracks:

In cerca di cibo
Geppetto
Villanella
Il Postino
Minor Dance
Pinocchio: in groppa tonno
Django
Le giostre di Piazza Savona
Lucignolo
Tre bimib di campagna
Celebre Mazurka alterata
Fata Turchina
El Choclo
El Choclo
In Cerca Di Cibo

Amazon.com's Best of 2000

Seems simple enough in concept: two Italian improvisers set about making a musical tribute to their homeland. But the music that clarinetist Gianluigi Trovesi and accordionist Gianni Coscia create for In cerca di cibo is anything but simple. The two paint a powerful (and pastoral) aural picture of Italy that is forward-thinking, melodic, and full of weaving instrumental lines. --Jason Verlinde

Amazon.com

Inquisitive, playful, nostalgic, and thoroughly Italian, saxophonist Gianluigi Trovesi pairs with accordionist Gianni Coscia to create arguably his finest album to date. On previous efforts, Trovesi sometimes tried too hard to be a sonic gypsy, diluting his recipe with a little too much funk, regional tunes, or improv. Here, he gets it just right, with heavy dollops of pastoral North Italian folk melodies, heartbreaking Morricone-inspired passages, a hint at tango, and just enough jazz to keep you on your toes. Case in point: somehow the Trovesi-penned "Minor Dance"--from its solemn intro to its swinging second half--makes the perfect bookend for the theme from Il Postino. Translated from Italian, the album's title track is "in search of nourishment." You'll hear that longing in this lyrical music, in the wheezy breaths of Coscia's accordion and the jaunty energy coming from Trovesi's sax. Liner notes by Umberto Eco try to describe this magical, genre-blurring pairing, but it really must be heard. Simply sublime. --Jason Verlinde

Customer Reviews:

"In cerca di cibo".... live.......2001-11-07

Yesterday evening I went to the "in cerca di cibo" concert in a small German town and now I'm buying this lovely CD I racommend everybody who likes mediterranean melody, improvisation, musical equilibrium and atmosphere.

Sunny Mediterranean soundscape.......2001-04-20

Imagine yourself strolling through sunny and empty streets of some lovely, intimate Mediterranean town on a lazy Sunday afternoon. You hear distant music and you let yourself be guided by it until you find an accordionist and a clarinetist at some small square, playing in a shade of a tree. You decide to stay and enjoy this beautiful, unobtrusive, nostalgic and positive music. An experience that makes your day a perfect one.

The music reminds of something you might have heard in some Italian film, some folk themes as well, but just as it's about to become familiar it moves on to something else. "In this play of references to different texts and traditions, [Trovesi and Coscia] occasionally arouse systems of expectations within the listener that they then suddenly frustrate, by changing the rules of the game. Which is one of the characteristics of experiments, a characteristic assumed in this case without forgoing something that experimental music often forgoes, that is to say pleasure", says Umberto Eco in a lovely essay about this CD, and continues by making an excellent point in saying that "there is nothing more seductive than artfulness, when it has the humility to disguise itself as artlessness".

Walk through landscape.......2000-07-27

I did not hear them before. I even didn't know them. I was caught up on Italian names. After knowing Paolo Conte, La Banda (Italian brass band), Piccola Orchestra Avion Travel I started to be curious about their music. Gianluigi Trovesi (clarinets) and Gianni Coscia (accordion) play into your mood. It really seems like you know all those melodies included on the album. I treat it like a tribute to various people, tribute to country or to place where you listen to this. Try to liste to "Minor Dance": there is gypsy music, there is also bit of tango ("...til they sore"). If you like sunrise mornings in the mountain, you should listen this soundtrack. If you like empty night streets, you should listen this soundtrack walking around. Trovesi instruments reminds me Jan Garbarek sound. Coscia accordion will take you to Paris(?). Go ahead and take Django (you know him)and you're gonna get unspecific swing. I enjoyed it really a lot. Or very much. Whatever. You will too.

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