Gi Gasparin, Jacopo Andreini

2010 release ** Limited edition of 100 copies. Packaged in an oversize cardboard sleeve. ‘Il Giro Del Mondo In 80 Pezzi’, that is ‘around the world in 80 tracks’. That’s right, 80 tracks here, in seventy-seven minutes. All around a minute or less. A bit of worn out idea if you’d ask me, but to present this like a audio version of Jules Verne, is perhaps nice. Gasparin gets help from one Jacopo Andreini, with whom he has been active in the world of improvised since the early 90s. Together they a whole bunch of instruments, guitars, voices, percussion, saxophone, oud, keyboards and such like. Very much like the Gasparin solo release this is a sketch book on paper, but with the important difference that all of these pieces are short and to the point. Not always particular strong, but due to the brief character of the music and the changing atmospheres of the small pieces, this can be indeed a trip around the world."