Esperanto: Voices

Luca Falomi is trained in classical music and has a vivid, incisive and silvery touch in his right hand and meandering deftness in his left hand. Still every song he has composed clearly shows it is heartfelt and comes from a place that is nobody’s and everybody’s land at the same time, a place where every music culture has thrived and brought fragrant contributions to jazz. The keystones supporting the framework of sound have been the same for the last five hundred years nearly all over the world, the tangle of notes that we might define Afro-Mediterranean and the ones which, arising from there, later simply and naturally became Caribbean Afro-American and Latin-American notes. Jelly Roll Morton said one century ago that the essential ingredients of jazz are creativity, surprise and an expert sprinkling of “latin tinge”.

Petra Magoni contributes voice on Partons to Esperanto: Voices, the Da Vinci Jazz recording led by Luca Falomi, Riccardo Barbera and Rodolfo Cervetto. The project expands the trio’s instrumental sound through collaborations with vocalists and guest instrumentalists, creating a different ensemble for each piece.

Riccardo Barbera contributes double bass and electric bass to Esperanto: Voices, the Da Vinci Jazz recording led by Luca Falomi, Riccardo Barbera and Rodolfo Cervetto. The project expands the trio’s instrumental sound through collaborations with vocalists and guest instrumentalists, creating a different ensemble for each piece.

Rodolfo Cervetto contributes drums and percussion to Esperanto: Voices, the Da Vinci Jazz recording led by Luca Falomi, Riccardo Barbera and Rodolfo Cervetto. The project expands the trio’s instrumental sound through collaborations with vocalists and guest instrumentalists, creating a different ensemble for each piece.

Alessia Martegiani contributes voice on Bebê to Esperanto: Voices, the Da Vinci Jazz recording led by Luca Falomi, Riccardo Barbera and Rodolfo Cervetto. The project expands the trio’s instrumental sound through collaborations with vocalists and guest instrumentalists, creating a different ensemble for each piece.

Anais Drago is an Italian violinist and composer whose work connects jazz, free improvisation, electroacoustic music and other contemporary languages. She studied violin and jazz composition and arrangement, developing projects including Anais Drago & The Jellyfish and the trio Relevé. She contributes violin to Terra Liberata on Federico Calcagno & The Dolphians’ Face The Music.

Cluster contributes voices on Aymara to Esperanto: Voices, the Da Vinci Jazz recording led by Luca Falomi, Riccardo Barbera and Rodolfo Cervetto. The project expands the trio’s instrumental sound through collaborations with vocalists and guest instrumentalists, creating a different ensemble for each piece.

Edmondo Romano contributes saxophone on Sal to Esperanto: Voices, the Da Vinci Jazz recording led by Luca Falomi, Riccardo Barbera and Rodolfo Cervetto. The project expands the trio’s instrumental sound through collaborations with vocalists and guest instrumentalists, creating a different ensemble for each piece.

Esmeralda Sciascia contributes voice on Baia to Esperanto: Voices, the Da Vinci Jazz recording led by Luca Falomi, Riccardo Barbera and Rodolfo Cervetto. The project expands the trio’s instrumental sound through collaborations with vocalists and guest instrumentalists, creating a different ensemble for each piece.

Olmo Manzano contributes percussion on Sal to Esperanto: Voices, the Da Vinci Jazz recording led by Luca Falomi, Riccardo Barbera and Rodolfo Cervetto. The project expands the trio’s instrumental sound through collaborations with vocalists and guest instrumentalists, creating a different ensemble for each piece.

Tina Omerzo contributes piano on Sal to Esperanto: Voices, the Da Vinci Jazz recording led by Luca Falomi, Riccardo Barbera and Rodolfo Cervetto. The project expands the trio’s instrumental sound through collaborations with vocalists and guest instrumentalists, creating a different ensemble for each piece.

Condcutor Franco Radicchia

Egberto Gismonti: (b Carmo, 5 Dec 1947). Brazilian composer. He began piano studies at the age of six at the Nova Friburgo Conservatory, studying classical music for 15 years. He moved to Rio de Janeiro in 1968, where he successfully participated in the Third Rio International Song Festival. He then went to Paris to study orchestration and analysis with Nadia Boulanger and composition with Jean Barraqué. After his return to Brazil, Gismonti developed a personal style incorporating Arabian and Italian melodies (his family’s heritage), classical and contemporary music (especially Villa-Lobos and Stravinsky), traditional national genres (folklore, choro, bossa nova), Brazilian Indian themes and jazz. Influenced by the choro, Gismonti taught himself to play the guitar. He has played, recorded and toured throughout the world with several musicians. Since his first recording in 1969 he has made about 50 albums of his own compositions (most released by ECM Records and EMI-Brazil), in which he plays the piano, guitar, various flutes (including Indian instruments), kalimbas and other instruments, winning several prizes. He has also worked as a producer, arranger or player in several other musicians’ recordings. Gismonti’s compositions encompass a great diversity of musical elements and forms, both Brazilian and international, and have been written for solo instruments, ensembles, symphony orchestras, dance, theatre, films, exhibitions and poetic anthologies.

Luca Falomi is a guitarist and composer and a member of Esperanto with Rodolfo Cervetto. The trio’s Voices project brings original compositions into dialogue with guest singers and instrumentalists. Its programme moves between acoustic trio writing, improvisation and a wider palette of voices, strings and percussion.

Riccardo Barbera is a double bassist and composer and a member of Esperanto with Rodolfo Cervetto. The trio’s Voices project brings original compositions into dialogue with guest singers and instrumentalists. Its programme moves between acoustic trio writing, improvisation and a wider palette of voices, strings and percussion.

Stéphane Casalta contributes vocals to Esperanto: Voices and shares the writing credit for Partons with Riccardo Barbera. The piece brings together the trio with Petra Magoni, Casalta and the Tritonus Ensemble, placing individual voices alongside choral textures and the group’s acoustic instrumental sound.