Rendi forti i vecchi sogni
Perché questo nostro mondo non perda coraggio
A lume spento
Make-strong old dreams
Lest this our world lose hearth
With tapers quenched
To understand each other implicitly is a serendipitous event in our life. It is a thing that is born and strengthens over time, gradually succeeding in the task of showing us unknown things about ourselves: the person with whom we relate acts as a magic means of transferring and at the same time receiving the unknown feelings of the other. This relationship is stronger when the two people love the arts: Gianni Mimmo and Gianni Lenoci shared music for 10 years, their music and that of the artists they loved, working with complementary means in a communion of abstract-art jazz, artistic sensitivity, coherence. What Mimmo and Lenoci were working on, before the pianist's untimely demise, was a precious fusion of perspectives to be developed through free and vibrant interventions on their instruments: The Whole Thing is the excellent posthumous CD of Reciprocal Uncles, a place of musical delicacies played in the form of a suite, over 50 minutes in which we can feel the implicit pact between the two musicians, their particular complicity, their instrumental evolutions embedded in a global result, an intense, differentiated, courageous flow, full of freedom: in practice, the revelation of that transfer mentioned above, the truth embodied in the creative experience. Through the exchange of instant composition, the two musicians "read" each other, they do justice to a dream that has long been linked to a different interpretation of music and art: an immensity that immediately becomes a noble and new heritage.
Ettore Garzia, Jan.2020
This album is respectfully dedicated to the memory of my beloved Reciprocal Uncle Gianni Lenoci.
Not easy to let you go.
Tracklist
1. The Whole Thing [50:48]
Credits
Gianni Lenoci: piano
Gianni Mimmo: soprano saxophone
Music by Gianni Lenoci and Gianni Mimmo
Recorded on May 17, 2019 at Wave Ahead studio, Monopoli, Italy,
Sound Engineering, mixing and mastering: Mimmo Galizia
Cover artwork: Lazlo Moholy-Nagy “A19”,1927, oil and graphite on canvas
Inside photo: Shanu
Cd Photo: “Brooklyn Transfiguration” 2011, shot by a visitor at the Moma-PS1 museum, Queens, NY
Poem: Ezra Pound “A Lume Spento / With Tapers Quenched”,1908
Graphics: Nicola Guazzaloca
Production: Gianni Mimmo for Amirani Records
This album is respectfully dedicated to the memory of my beloved Reciprocal Uncle Gianni Lenoci.
Not easy to let you go.