Circular Motion

Francesco Crosara, an Italian based in Seattle, plays piano and Yamaha MODX-8 synthesizer on this album. With three line-ups, each with drums, two with an electric bass, one with a double bass. An album heavily influenced by Chick Corea who also liked to play with different musicians, well-known or young to discover. Crosara plays his own music plus covers, such as that of Erik Satie's Gymnopédie n°4. "I made the pieces according to the musicians," says Crosara. "Longing requires a resonant double bass, Preludio Flamenco a more guitarist on bass. » The whole is heterogeneous in sound, that is obvious, but very homogeneous in inspiration and pleasure. In this Gymnopédie, precisely, the double bassist Clipper Anderson even manages to quote West Side Story...