Bjørnstad, Ketil - Notte (La)
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Ketil Bjørnstad: piano; Andy Sheppard: tenor and soprano saxophones; Eivind Aarset: guitars, electronics; Anja Lechner: violoncello; Arild Andersen: double bass; Marilyn Mazur: percussion
"La notte" was commissioned by the Molde International Jazz Festival and recorded live at the Norwegian festival in 2010. It is a salute to Italian filmmaker Michelangelo Antonioni, whom Ketil Bjørnstad counts amongst his formative influences.
Ketil Bjørnstad: "At the same time that I discovered what jazz could be, after listening to Miles Davis' In A Silent Way, I also saw the films by Godard, Bresson and Antonioni. It happened in that period of life when one is specially open-minded and curious about everything new. You could move into a dark cinema theatre in the early afternoon and watch the new and the old masters. Perhaps it was the slow, rhythmic authority in the films by Michelangelo Antonioni that made me think of music... As long as visual art creates music in our minds, and music creates pictures and visual expressions with the same intensity, the two are deeply and profoundly interdependent". This album, then, can be considered "the soundtrack to an inner film", in which Antonioni's images and atmospheres are translated and transformed through personal moods and memories.