Matteo Paggi, trombone player alongside the international jazz icon Enrico Rava in the group "The Fearless Five",
presents his project W O R D S.
A concept of inspired improvisation that aims to destroy all barriers between musical genres, making each musician express himself in the purest and most intimate way possible and going on to evoke new soundscapes,
unclassifiable.
The music of W O R D S is based on a composition and improvisation method of the same name
created and developed by Matteo.
The method aims at an artistic creation that springs from the solicitation
of the three spheres that make up the human being:
the intellectual sphere, the bodily sphere and the spiritual sphere.
These three areas are brought into play through the use of five categories of words:
colors, shapes, actions, ways of being, places/things.
Finally, the words are written on paper with the addition of signs describing performance modes and transitions, thus creating an indispensable form within which the musicians can express themselves deeply and create the piece together.
The group does not have a fixed number of members but a variable line-up depending on places, moments in life, logistical needs or particular artistic concepts; moreover, by conceptual and human choice, it is formed d musicians from very different backgrounds: classical music, jazz, rock, latin modern jazz, contemporary, free.
The main core of the W O R D S - Collective, in addition to Matteo, consists of:
Irene Piazza (violin), Iara Perillo (flute), Anja Gottberg (double bass) and Anton Sconosciuto (drums)
W O R D S - Collective
IRENE PIAZZA
violin
IARA PERILLO
flute
ANJA GOTTBERG
doublebass
ANTON SCONOSCIUTO
drums
VIDEO
W O R D S - Teaser
W O R D S - Live excerpt
W O R D S - Yellow Future Form
PHOTO
words
AUT Records
NÜGO - Creative Collective
The album, released on February 2024, is titled words, and is a recording session that took place in Amsterdam on a May day.
It consists of two totally improvised tracks (the ones with the title all in lower case) and four tracks written using the W O R D S method.
The totally improvised tracks were initially sound-checks, and when listened to in retrospect, it was surprising to discover how they turned out to be stand-alone tracks with a full sense of purpose.
The free improvisations you will hear on the album are not classifiable as free jazz but are much more like classical and contemporary music compositions. At moments it sounds as if you are hearing a piece by Debussy or Stravinsky, then it sounds as if you are in a club suffused with intellectual jazz, then again in a hysteria of unrelated sounds. There is no shortage of moments of extreme melodic drama and important use of dynamics.
Having a collective of musicians from disparate musical genres has great compositional power and innovative interplay energy.
One can clearly hear on this album that each musician has an idea of sonic beauty that complements the ideal sphere of the other.
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"Matteo Paggi is not only an outstanding instrumentalist and a great improviser. He is also an extremely interesting composer and organizer of sounds, and this work of his is clear proof of that."
Enrico Rava
"𝘐𝘵’𝘴 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘣𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘺 𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘥𝘦𝘴𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘣𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘔𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘰 𝘗𝘢𝘨𝘨𝘪 𝘣𝘺 𝘪𝘯𝘧𝘭𝘶𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘳 𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘳𝘦; 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘦𝘹𝘵𝘦𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘭𝘶𝘥𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘮𝘣𝘦𝘳, 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘳𝘶𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘣𝘶𝘳𝘴𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘢𝘷𝘢𝘯𝘵-𝘨𝘢𝘳𝘥𝘦, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘭𝘦 𝘴𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘬𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘧𝘰𝘭𝘬 𝘮𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘤𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘮𝘣𝘰𝘯𝘪𝘴𝘵’𝘴 𝘪𝘥𝘪𝘰𝘴𝘺𝘯𝘤𝘳𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘤 𝘴𝘵𝘺𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘧 𝘮𝘰𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘯 𝘫𝘢𝘻𝘻. I𝘵’𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘺 𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸 𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘯 𝘪𝘵𝘴 𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘺—𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘢 𝘺𝘦𝘢𝘳’𝘴 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘩 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘷𝘪𝘦𝘸𝘦𝘥 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘭𝘢𝘱𝘴𝘦, 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘦 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘵 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘦’𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘤𝘢𝘱𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘧𝘦𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘺 𝘢 𝘣𝘺𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘥𝘶𝘤𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳 𝘢𝘤𝘵."
Dave Sumner, "The Best Jazz on Bandcamp, February 2024"
"It is a project to establish a new musical language by disassociating it from codified genres and leaving wide room for improvisation and free moments."
Roberto Celi, MusicMap.it
"Between ethno moments, jazz and classical music, written and other improvised passages, the band leaves an impact on the listener as it deliberately escapes all genres [...] A special record, certainly not banal, which realizes in an accomplished way the ideas of the leader."
Vittorio Loconte, Kathodik Webzine