Artists
Enzo Favata soprano sax, alto & bass clarinet, chalumeau, samplers, live electronics
Luciano Elzondo viola da gamba, voice
Marcello Peghin electric guitar, live electronics
Anaïs Drago violin track 9
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Catalogue No: LOS 305-2
EAN: 709002583052
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With this new project Enzo Favata returns to his great passion for sacred music, addressed in records such as ‘Boghes and Voices’ (German Music Award nomination, 2003). Today, over twenty years have passed since that experience,
the musician faces a new mystical, almost astral journey.
Luciana Elizondo’s voice comes from the profound baroque period, with her instrument capable of evoking landscapes painted by the Flemish masters of the 1500s, thanks to her great knowledge of her repertoire which sees her active in
numerous ancient music ensembles in Europe.
Enzo Favata alternates the unmistakable sound of his soprano saxophone, bass clarinet, synthesizer, samplers and field recordings. He arranged the entire album creating a form and a pathos, which make the sound of this album unique.
The playing of guitarist Marcello Peghin evokes memories of a distant world, as well as drawing inspiration from the 70s, revitalized and filtered. On the album we find sounds that are distant from each other, but which blend
perfectly with those archaic sounds of the viola and singing, in a journey between the music of the 1500s and contemporary sounds. We find ourselves in front of a truly magical trio that has managed to merge the spirit of ancient music with contemporary electronics, putting together the lessons of John Hassell, Brian Eno, psychedelic music with echoes of Pink Floyd, and some early Genesis guitar sounds, all blended by a skillful jazz improvisation
at the service of a great mystical landscape. The music is intended as hypnotic mantras, in a fusion between acoustic and electronic, in a surreal environment the following songs follow one another – some placed between 1500 and 1600, and other twentieth century authors.
UNE JEUNE FILLETTE Anonymous France 1600 Made famous in the film ‘Tous les Matins du Monde’ 1991, directed by Alain Corneau
Luciana Elizondo voice, viola da gamba
Marcello Peghin electric guitar
Enzo Favata soprano saxophone, synthesizer
MYSTIC GEOGRAPHY Music by Enzo Favata
Adaption of the Latin text ‘Dum Pater Familias’, Liber Sancti Jacobi – Codex Calixtinus (sec. XII)
Luciana Elizondo voice, viola da gamba
Marcello Peghin electric guitar
Enzo Favata soprano saxophone, synthesizer, sampler
PLANTITA DE ALELI Anonymous traditional music, Argentina
Luciana Elizondo voice
Marcello Peghin electric guitar
Enzo Favata bass clarinet
SAILORS AND WHALES Music by Enzo Favata
Inspired by the ancient legends of the North Sea
Luciana Elizondo viola da gamba
Marcello Peghin electric guitar
Enzo Favata soprano saxophone, synthesizer
ALGARROBO ALGABARROBAL Music by Lia Cimaglia Espinosa, Argentina Text by Juan Mamerto Ponferrada
Luciana Elizondo voice, viola da gamba
Marcello Peghin electric guitar
Enzo Favata chalumeau
The chalumeau is a single-reed woodwind instrument of the late baroque and early classical eras. It is a folk instrument that is the predecessor to the modern-day clarinet
ORA PRO NOBIS Music by Marcello Peghin
Luciana Elizondo viola da gamba
Marcello Peghin electric guitar, electric bass
Enzo Favata soprano saxophone, synthesizer
IL BIANCO E DOLCE CIGNO Madrigal composed in 1539 by Jaques Arcadet based on a poem by Marquis Alfonso D’Alvados
Luciana Elizondo viola da gamba, voice
Enzo Favata bass clarinet, synthesizer, sampler
LA VIRGEN Music by Enzo Favata Inspired by a Venezuelan folk song
Luciana Elizondo voice
Marcello Peghin electric guitar
Enzo Favata soprano saxophone, synthesizer
FLIGHT FROM THE CITY Music by Johan Johanson (1969–2018) A tribute to the one of the most inspired composers of the 2000s where Enzo develops a poetic bass clarinet solo in line with the composition.
Marcello Peghin electric guitar
Enzo Favata bass clarinet, sampler
Luciana Elizondo viola da gamba
Anaïs Drago violin