説明
ナポリ出身、ピアニスト／プロデューサー／作曲家の Dario Bassolino による7インチ。ジャンルを横断する音楽性と、ジャズ・ファンクやディスコ、ブラジリアン・ファンクなど多彩なバックグラウンドを持つ彼が、海と空の境界線上にサウンドを描いた2トラックを収録。
A面 “Popoli Del Mare” にはナポリ、チュニジア、ベイルートが音の地平線として交差。アフロ・リズムを背景に、夢見るようなイタリア的ハーモニーが絡み合い、海風を感じさせるグルーヴとメロディが同居する。B面 “Baid Alik” は愛と希望を歌うトラック。チュニジアの歌手 Marzouk Mejri との共作で、プロト・ラップとメロディが交錯するヴォーカルを、ディスコ〜シネマティックなインストゥルメンタルが支える。
Bassolinoは LNDFK、Nicola Conte、Nu Genea、Pink Siifu などとも共演・共作を重ねてきたアーティスト。ステージでは即興演奏を交えたライブ感覚を武器に、世界中のフェスティバルに出演してきた。
海と空のあいだ、地中海が映す光と影を音に結晶させたこのレコードは、ラテン／アフロ／ディスコ好きにとっても、バレアリックやメロウなグルーヴを求めるリスナーにとっても刺さる1枚。
A1. Popoli Del Mare
B1. Baid Alik
Dario Bassolino is pianist, producer and composer born in Naples, where he currently resides. With an eclectic taste and an genre-defying musical ability, he has produced for and played alongside alt-R&B vocalist LNDFK, jazz-funk legend Nicola Conte, Early Sounds boss Pellegrino and has collaborated with Nu Genea, Kurtis Rosenwinkel and rapper Pink Siifu to name a few. Inspired by the Brazilian funk greats Hermeto Pascoal and Airto Moreira and their Italian counterparts such as Franco Califano, Lucio Battisti, Panella, Enzo di Domenico and Gennaro D'Auria. Bassolino’s live show has a very organic form and is inspired by jazz, funk and disco improvisation, having extensive experience playing to enthusiastic international audiences as a session musician at prestigious festivals Primavera Sound, Montreux Jazz festival, Dour Festival and We Out Here.
Bassolino's new release is located where the sea begins and the sky ends. Two tracks that carry the horizon drawing a straight line between Naples, Tunisi and Beirut. A thin but tangible line that unites the Mediterranean poles. Hence the concept of "Popoli del Mare", the multiform sound waves intertwine a composition with an incessant rhythm: the Afro contamination of Charif Megarbane finds a fit with the Italian and dreamy harmonies of Bassolino. Baid Alik is a song of love and hope. The sound, purely inspired by the research of Habibi Funk, evokes the memory of an ancestral past shared by Bassolino with the Tunisian singer Marzouk Mejri.
His voice, halfway between proto- rap and melodic, mix perfectly to the disco-cinematic instrumental.
