"Loved the cover of the '30s blues'
Gianluca Petrella, we talk first of its next output hard ...
"It's a project that I really care, it's called Tubolibre / Slaves and is produced by Spacebone, the record company that I wanted to create in 2009, they expect the exit end of November. Tubolibre, in particular, is the quartet that I formed in 2008 along with three excellent musicians: Gabrio Baldacci on electric guitar, Cristiano Calcagno on drums and Mauro Ottolini to Susafa (lighter and more transportable version of the tuba, often used for bands) . Instead I'll play the Fender Rhodes, as well as the trombone of course. "
What kind of music in Tubolibre / Slaves?
"Cover of Blues of the '30s, improvisations, and some new songs. Despite Tubolibre probably evokes joy and lightness, in reality it is a very hard and deep melancholy, a harsh reflection on what is absurd is happening in our society. The very title, Slaves (slaves), wants to tell all kinds of slavery that haunt our everyday life: technological slavery, slavery of money, that of power. " A new
Petrella.
"Rather than again, I would say that I feel in a new guise. It does not affect many records, I make a new album every year and is in a sense a new part of me. I like to put into question, always playing with new languages. Each experience, every trip, every encounter, every thought influence what I create, again and again. It would be impossible to create the same music. "
Although he only 35 years, plays the trombone for over 25 years now. More than an instrument now a sort of third arm. Why just the trombone?
"In fact, it is not mere coincidence. The trombone I've been in the house, my father is a trombonist himself. It would be difficult for a 10 year old child choose an instrument like that. I started playing the trombone in 85 weddings and funerals, accompanying with the band in the country. And certainly the fact of playing funeral marches have strongly influenced my training Music. Then I left instead overwhelmed from Happy jazz, playing in small dance bands. At 20 years, then I left Bari to Frankfurt and 21 are returned to Italy where I began working with Enrico Rava. "
Just look together at a concert to catch your great harmony
"We play together for 15 years, we know each other really well. Trumpet and trombone becomes a tool only when we play together. He was a great teacher for me. It opened many doors, both from a cultural point of view, and professional. I grew up with him, he has toured around the world. Do I have a lot to Enrico Rava, it is an honor for me to continue to work together. "
In the early years of its formation, however, who has been his greatest musical reference?
"When I started playing, studying at the Conservatory, my myths were a little 'myths of all. I can say I grew up on bread and JJ Johnson, a great trombonist. And then of course, Ornette Coleman, Archie Shepp, Hereti Dolphin. Over the past 5 / 10 years instead I began to find inspiration in every musical genre, from the great Giacinto Scelsi to rapper Snoop Dogg, and then in electronic music, heavy metal. I would say in all the sounds in general. But do not tell me about Italian Pop. Not that. I can not stand those people who maybe do not understand that great music and like to blow a few, off to the genes of the third millennium. " A meatball
difficult to swallow for someone like you who has studied deeply the music
"I do not do as a matter of education or knowledge, is not an issue of musical skills. For me everything is music. From the orchestral music that played in a garage. Music is a common good. What I hate is the presumption of those who pretend to understand, then speculating on some artistelli. I mention no names. "
And Computer Music instead?
"A ruin. Although I very often work with the computer and I really like the mail, I can not consider music the act of buying a computer, mount it in the kitchen between fridge and dishwasher, download some sound pieces and assemble them together. "
On Youtube there is a video in which he plays under water of a swimming pool. Do you like this kind of experimentation?
"You mean the Time In Jazz Festival 2009. That year the theme of the festival was just water. And so, with Paolo Fresu, we decided to play with the water more than theoretical physics. And I immersed myself in the pool, it was fun. Other experiments ... I played at 2400 meters altitude in the mountains. And then the dark, the rain, the street is ... Every time a new feeling. " Looking
play, it seems to go almost in another dimension. What's inside his head at the time?
"Actually, those are moments of high concentration. Think music, think of the sounds, the notes you think you're going to compose. If every time you want to create something new, something unheard of, as I pretend to do, you must free your mind of everything else. " Published on
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