Stefano Battaglia : CD : Pastorale

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Pastorale

Stefano Battaglia

label: ECM format: CD UPC: 00602527137643 release date: 3/30/2010

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Tracks

	Antifona Libera (Stefano Battaglia):
	1. Antifona Libera 06:28
	Metaphysical Consolations (Stefano Battaglia, Michele Rabbia):
	2. Metaphysical Consolations 06:00
	Monasterium (Stefano Battaglia, Michele Rabbia):
	3. Monasterium 03:56
	Oracle (Stefano Battaglia, Michele Rabbia):
	4. Oracle 02:29
	Kursk Requiem (Stefano Battaglia, Michele Rabbia):
	5. Kursk Requiem 03:59
	Cantar Del Alma (Stefano Battaglia, Michele Rabbia):
	6. Cantar Del Alma 08:06
	Spirits Of Myths (Stefano Battaglia, Michele Rabbia):
	7. Spirits Of Myths 04:51
	Pastorale (Stefano Battaglia):
	8. Pastorale 07:00
	Sundance In Balkh (Stefano Battaglia, Michele Rabbia):
	9. Sundance In Balkh 05:51
	Tanztheater (Stefano Battaglia, Michele Rabbia):
	10. Tanztheater 09:49
	Vessel Of Magic (Stefano Battaglia, Michele Rabbia):
	11. Vessel Of Magic 02:56

Pastorale

In this beautiful duo album by two of Italy’s most creative musicians, roles are frequently overturned, as lyrical percussion shades into electronics and texture turns to melody. Stefano Battaglia reminds us that the piano is also a percussion instrument and Michele Rabbia is sensitive to all the tonal implications of drums and cymbals. The musicians play with and without scores in material that is variously open-form, tightly-controlled, inspired by folk idioms, by liturgical music and by art installations. Battaglia allows beautiful themes to ripple through the work, and sounds are given room to blossom. Duets for piano and percussion have long represented an important zone in the work of Stefano Battaglia (in the early 1990s, he collaborated with both Tony Oxley and Pierre Favre). Since 2000, Michele Rabbia has been Battaglia’s principal percussionist, appearing on both of his previous ECM releases – “Raccolto” and “Re: Pasolini” – as an ensemble member and fellow improviser. On “Pastorale” the musicians shape the music together.