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Anima Mundi

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ATLANTIS TRIO

ANIMA MUNDI

Release date: March 28th, 2018
code/format:  BFA CD 004

 

Atlantis Trio
Roberto Olzer pianoforte
Deobrat Mishra sitar
Prashant Mishra tabla

TRACKLIST

1. Atlantis (Roberto Olzer)
2. Song for Nuu (Deobrat Mishra)
3. The Banks of the Bann (trad. Irish)
4. Remembering Pramila (Deobrat Mishra)
5. Brother Wind March (Jan Garbarek)
6. Darbari (Deobrat Mishra)
7. Bhairavi (Deobrat Mishra)
8. Lullaby (trad. Spanish)

Recording Information:

Recorded, mixed and mastered in May 2017 at Digitube Studio, Mantova, by Carlo Cantini

 

Produced by Roberto Olzer and Max De Aloe for Barnum for Art
Graphic Designer: Gianluca Brugnetti

ABOUT THIS CD

A piano, sitar and tabla trio is rarely heard, notwithstanding the vast range of World Music.

The receptivity of the pianist Roberto Olzer for Indian music, together with Deobrat Mishra (sitar), his nephew Prashant Mishra (tabla) and their openness for experimentation and musical dialogue have created this unique recording of great seductive resonance. When Indian classical music rooted in the spiritual guru-shishya parampara (teacher-student tradition) meets and mingles with the rich harmonic heritage of the West the result is pure, musical alchemy.

Melodies of Indian, Irish and Spanish origin provide ample space for improvisation, as do inspired original themes, all emerging from the infinite source of a world soul – Anima Mundi.

 

L’accostamento del pianoforte al sitar e al tabla è più unico che raro nel panorama pur vasto della World Music.

La curiosità del pianista Roberto Olzer per la cultura musicale indiana, assieme alla disponibilità al dialogo e alla sperimentazione di Deobrat e Prashant Mishra, zio e nipote di una antica famiglia di musicisti di Benares, ha prodotto una registrazione con una sonorità inedita e seducente, forte della profondità spirituale dell’India e della ricchezza armonica dell’Occidente.

Melodie popolari ed ampi spazi di improvvisazione, temi ispirati, o presi a prestito, dalla tradizione indiana, irlandese, spagnola, alcune fra le infinite declinazioni dell’Anima del Mondo.

Liner notes

 

Nel Novembre 2014 conobbi e suonai per la prima volta con Deobrat e Prashant Mishra in un concerto intitolato ‘East meets West’. Fu per noi e per il pubblico un’esperienza esaltante, intensa, che non dimenticherò, ripetuta in altre occasioni altrettanto ricche di poesia e spontaneità, un poco delle quali abbiamo cercato di infondere in questa registrazione.

Non potei fare a meno di pensare allora, come penso oggi, che a fondamento del dialogo tra culture musicali così lontane stia un’anima universale, un’Anima Mundi – Vishwatma, Weltseele, o come chiamarla si voglia – un principio unificante al di là delle caratteristiche individuali e delle discendenze storiche; un’intuizione dalla storia plurimillenaria, che ci ha sedotto e dà senso al nostro suonare insieme.

Roberto Olzer

 

I met and played with Deobrat and Prashant Mishra for the first time in November 2014 in a concert titled ‘East meets West’. I will never forget the intense excitement we felt playing together for the first time, an excitement shared by our audience. This experience was followed by further concerts no less rich in musical poetry and improvisational spontaneity. It is our wish to convey some of these qualities in this recording.

I could not help thinking then as I do now, that fundamental to the dialogue between diverse musical cultures such as these is a single, universal soul known as Anima Mundi, Vishwatma, Weltseele etc., a unifying principle underlying individual phenomena and cultural ancestries. We have experienced the seductive genius of this ancient concept. It has brought us together as musicians and informs our playing.

Roberto Olzer

Bio artists:

Roberto
Olzer

Deobrat
Mishra

Prashant
Mishra

Further recordings of this artists
in the Barnum Catalogue:

Road Movie