(ECM, Modern Creative, Free Jazz, Avant-Garde) Stefano Battaglia & Michele Rabbia - Pastorale - 2009, FLAC (tracks+.cue), lossless

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Stefano Battaglia / Pastorale
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Product Description:
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.
Review
References to a past where spirituality, magic and myth intertwined abound in the titles of these 11 pieces and influences from Arabic music and Gamelan are heard alongside others from composers like Cage, Reich and Xenakis. Yet the feelings this record evokes are more profound than a mere cataloguing of musical and artistic allusions. … Its very poetic qualities are manifested in ‘Pastorale’, the hymnal ‘Antifona’ and melancholic ‘Cantar del Alma’. This is an album of quite exquisite beauty.
Duncan Heining, Jazzwise
The latest CD from the freely improvising Italian piano and percussion duo is a gently undulating soundscape of spaced notes and hovering textures. As the eleven pieces unfold, Rabbia’s tinkling glass electronics swirl like mist round Battaglia’s recisely resonant piano.
Mike Hobart, Financial Times
Pleasingly minimal, ambiently inclined duo of pianist Battaglia and percussionist Rabbia. The spare, nuanced music is as close to John Cage or Morton Feldman as it is to jazz, but despite the limited instrumentation a great variety of sound is conjured up, with Rabbia using subtle electronics to amplify and extend his kit, and Battaglia sometimes playing a prepared-piano. … This is “audible landscape” in the famous phrase of the poet Rilke, one of whose “Sonnets to Orpheus” inspired the title track.
Phil Johnson, Independent on Sunday