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Raffaele Casarano is one of the most talented and well known musician of the new Italian jazz generation and
\none of the most representative artists of the T\u00c7\u201dk Music roster, the label founded by trumpeter Paolo Fresu.
\nOltremare is the fourth album released on label.
\nOn this record, mastered by the great engineer Giovanni Versari, Raffaele leads an international quartet which
\nincludes Manu Katch\u00c3\u00a9 on drums, Eric Legnini on piano, Fender Rhodes and synth, and Lars Danielsson on
\ndoublebass. Two tracks feature Danno on vocals, member of the historical Roman hip hop band Colle Der
\nFomento.
\nIt is an ambitious project in which the apulian talent directs a dream band with authority and generosity:
\nCasarano has composed and arranged all the 13 tracks of the album, showing profound maturity.
\nThe group plays as a unit, all the elements are perfectly integrated and in balance: only the music emerges as
\nthe real protagonist.
\nThe saxophonist sets the ground for a musical research that encompasses diverse and coherent genres like
\ngospel, soul and hip hop.
\nThese sounds are close to his soul, as he is back from many tours in Africa during which he had the chance to
\ncollaborate with several musicians from Zimbabwe and South Africa: an experience which deeply marked the
\nrealization of this album<\/p>\n
Thanks to Casarano\u00c2\u2019s spiritual approach the album develops like a lithurgy, the music soars serene like an
\nantidote to our troubled times, an hymn to freedom and to mankind trying to overcome its limits.
\nFirst single from Oltremare is the title track, with lyrics composed and sung by Danno.
\nThe song is accompanied by an extraordinary lyric video realized by Augusto Murgia, sponsored by the
\nLampedusa City Administration and in support of the Medecines Sans Frontieres campaign #Umani.
\nThe track, which sums up the essence and the spirit of the whole record, tells about migrants traveling to a shore
\nand a way out, but at the same time is a metaphore of something intimate and existential.
\nTraveling not to only towards salvation, but as a place and non-place of reflection on one\u00c2\u2019s condition of human
\nbeing, discovering one\u00c2\u2019s self.<\/p>\n
The album artwork is by wonderful artist Malala Andrialavidrazana, born in Madagascar and now living in
\nFrance. After an education as architect Malala focused on visual arts and photography winning the HSBC award.
\nHer work has been exhibited all over the world, from Cote D\u00c2\u2019ivoire to Mali, from Israel to China and in many
\nEuropean countries.<\/p>\n
The cover and other booklet visual elements belong to the series Figures, in which the artist juxtaposes
\ndisparate elements like 19th century maps, banknotes and artworks that have marked her generation. In this
\nway she operates a perspective shift of the way in which we look at the materials she addresses, and makes us
\nreconsider our world\u00c2\u2019s knowledge, especially with the current situation dominated by globalization. The visual
\nelements of the banknotes amplify this vision, true symbols of the economic domination from the colonial years
\nwhich still persists even after the declaration of independence.
\nThe album has been produced with the invaluable contribution of Valentino Nicol\u00c3\u00ac and Aver Cura, a company
\nthat has been dealing for many years in artistic restoration, and shares with Casarano the same vision of the
\nworld and of human beings.<\/p>\n
LABEL: www.tukmusic.com
\nARTIST: www.facebook.com\/raffacasarano\/
\nCOVER: www.andrialavidrazana.com
\nMANAGEMENT: www.pannonica.it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Raffaele Casarano is one of the most talented and well known musician of the new Italian jazz generation and one of the most representative artists of the T\u00c7\u201dk Music roster, the label founded by trumpeter Paolo Fresu. Oltremare is the fourth album released on label. On this record, mastered by the great engineer Giovanni Versari, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":8505,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-unkategorisiert"],"yoast_head":"\n