| "The
mo.dig.liani musical project born in Turin in 2001 by two
jazz players, Fabio Angeleri and Maurizio Rostagno. They
do one's best for the brazilian music. The maliciouses can
object to be a strange coincidence to play brazilian music
in the brazilian fashion's summer! I don't know them by
person, but I say that is truly a coincidence. On this cd
mo.dig.liani interpretates some bossanova songs filtrated
by jazz lens and by electronic à la page. Every song
is re-arranged with acoustic instruments, with samplers
and analogical sounds. This is a cd played with taste and
balance. I'm not an expert of bossanova, but I know the
music enough to perceive all the other influences of this
group, that are, behind the brazilian surface, the real
protagonists of their music; I mean: the London's drum’n’bass
on “Berimbau”, the ’70s retro-futurist
atmospheres on “Agnus sei”, the refined lounge-pop
on “Chovendo na roseira” and the Pizzicato Five's
exothic-scamp spirit on “Dindi”. Very delicate
and decidedly above the medium level the vocal parts of
Laura Cavallero."
21/08/04
Massimiliano Osini - Rockit - max@rockit.it
link!
"Under
the unusual abbreviation mo.dig.liani, three great musicians
from Turin, come out: jazz pianist and composer Fabio Angeleri,
the percussionist Maurizio Rostagno and the jazz singer
Laura Cavallero. They put out their jazz and electronic
experiences, widely tested in live shows around Italy, into
service of the brazilian music, with good remix of classics
bossa nova songs taken from Jobim, Bosco, De Moraes, Powell
and de Oliveira's repertory. The wedding between acoustic
and electronic was succesfull."
02/01/04
Guido Marco - Musica e dischi (Recensioni), 671, p. 62 link!
"...The
electronic music of mo.dig.liani from Turin, with brazilian
bossa flavour, latin house and jazz..."
23/12/03
Barbara Santi - Radio Torino Popolare 97.0
"In
this self-produced debut cd, all the tracks are our interpretations
of some passages belonging to the brazilian bossa nova repertory.
Each song has been wholly rearranged employing both acoustical
instruments and sampling tools and analogical sounds, in
order to giving a more modern breath to a mainly acoustical
music. Electronic music, surely, but always made trying
to keep the human feel and those typical “desafinade”
feelings of sun and feast, but also of sadness and simplicity;
these are characteristics of all Brazilian music from which
we draw on and from which we always approach with the greatest
respect. "
FabiuS - Mr^Mau
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