Pure Magic by Stefano Battaglia & Samo Salamon
All compositions by Stefano Battaglia & Samo Salamon.
Alessa Records, 2018
About the previous Stefano Battaglia & Samo Salamon CD - SAMO SALAMON & STEFANO BATTAGLIA: windS (2016)
(Klopotec Records):
»Amazing CD that seems to come from another planet!«
(Neri Pollastri, AllAboutJazz, Italy, February 2017)
»Rich atmosphere and impeccable execution of material on this album. Only true artists can achieve this when they relax and play their instruments, led by honest emotions and group experience offered by jazz improvisation!!«
(Dragutin Matoševič, Barikada, Bosnia and Herzegovina, February 2017)
»The music is an appealing mix of spacy soundscapes, jazz-rock-avant improvisations, and progressively oriented adventures in sound sculpture!«
(Greg Applegate, Music Review, USA, January 2017)
»Guitarist Samo Salamon is known for his creativity and fabulous innovation...The CD deliver truly bold music and Samo Salamon is definitely to be admired!«
(SK Jazz, Slovakia, October 2016)
»For both artists this is an excellent showcase for their talents and presents a marvellous and captivating experience of a live session with two players absolutely in tune with each other.«
(Chris Baber, Jazz Views, UK, September 2016)
»The whole program has the excitement of musicians working without a net, to thrilling effect. Salamon's twentieth album as a leader begs for a sequel.«
(Mark Sullivan, AllAboutJazz, USA, May 2016)
»It is a critic’s joy to discover a major talent relatively unknown outside musicianly circles appearing on a minor European label. Both these musicians are complete artists, possessed of genius with fingers head and heart!«
(Raul da Gama, Da Gama Jazz, Canada, August 2016)
Tracklist
| 1. | The Beauty of Kei | 6:38 |
| 2. | Slick | 8:20 |
| 3. | The Seventh Seal | 4:10 |
| 4. | The Fifth Element | 7:52 |
| 5. | Burja's World | 3:05 |
| 6. | Pure Magic | 16:37 |
| 7. | Useless Squabbles | 5:00 |
| 8. | Octaves | 3:35 |
| 9. | Disturbances | 5:26 |
| 10. | Androidream | 13:47 |
Credits
Samo Salamon - guitar
Stefano Battaglia - piano
License
All rights reserved.Tags
Slovenian jazz guitarist and composer, recording artist for Clean Feed Records, Not Two Records, Fresh Sound New Talent, who has recorded 30 CDs with players such as Howard Levy, Paul McCandless, John Hollenbeck, Mark Turner, Michel Godard, Drew Gress, Tony Malaby, Mark Helias, Tom Rainey, Tim Berne, Donny McCaslin, Dave Binney, Josh Roseman, Gerald Cleaver, John Hebert, Julian Arguelles, etc.