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Time Images (HD) 2015

by Matteo Bortone

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Two years after his debut album, also marking his comeback to his country, the 30-year-old Italian double bass player Matteo Bortone releases his second record as a leader, "Time Images", under Auand Records (distributed by Goodfellas). The Otranto-born, Paris-grown and now Rome-based musician leads his French-Italian quartet TRAVELERS (Antonin-Tri Hoang, Francesco Diodati and Ariel Tessier) that also appeared in his debut album.

Following the critical success that welcomed his first album (awarded "Re´ve´lation Jazzman" and "Jazz De´couverte" in France, as well as included among "2013 Best Records" by Italian monthly magazine Jazzit), Bortone confirms the musical direction he showed in his previous work: electro-acoustic moments and rarefied atmospheres, exploring all the connections between improvisation and avant-garde rock, always emphasizing the collective sound instead of the individual one.

The album title is not only a hint of Bortone’s love for movies (the idea of "image-temps" on neorealistic cinema was first introduced by French philosopher Gilles Deleuze) but it also wants to highlight the idea of image as a new start, a collection of multi-sensorial memories, while the time is intended as a postponed movement, thus leading to the mobility of the image. Just like frames, the 11 tracks bring up energetic and well-structured pieces ("Sunday Supermarket," "Just Play," "Broskar") and introspecting ballads ("Crackle", "Olvidao"). Unlike his first work, the sound palette is now enriched with more instruments, such as electric bass, synth and clarinet (besides alto sax and bass clarinet), adding new shades to improvisations as well as explaining a research in writing that focuses on the whole group instead of the quartet only ("Intro Crackle" was written as a 4-voices choral with double bass, synth, clarinet and bass clarinet).

In such perspective, the synth has a co-leading role in some improvisations ("Sunday Supermarket" "Locked Room") and it also acts as a main voice in "Tourne" and "Olvidao #1" themes. With the exception of famous Led Zeppelin’s rock song "Houses of the Holy" Bortone has penned all tracks. The band has performed in England, France, Belgium and will be touring Italy and France in February and March 2016 to showcase the new work.

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released September 11, 2015

Antonin-Tri Hoang - alto sax, clarinet, bass clarinet, Roland synth SH 101
Francesco Diodati - electric & acoustic guitar
Matteo Bortone - double bass, electric bass
Ariel Tessier - drums

All compositions by Matteo Bortone except #7

Produced by Matteo Bortone
Executive Producer: Marco Valente
Recording: Artesuono, Cavalicco (UD) – Italy
Engineer: Stefano Amerio
Cover Photo: Matteo Bortone

Thanks to Puglia Sounds

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Matteo Bortone Rome, Italy

Italian, musically raised in Paris, awarded as “Best New Talent 2015” in annual poll held by journalists of italian jazz magazine 'Musica Jazz', bassist Matteo Bortone is one of the top voices of newest italian jazz generation. He released 3 albums as a leader: “ClarOscuro” (CAM Jazz 2018, “Time Images” (Auand 2015) and “Travelers” (ZonediMusica 2013), all highly-welcomed by international press. ... more

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