'Weather Eye' marks the first recorded collaboration between Italian guitarist Francesca Naibo and American cellist Theresa Wong. This collection of improvisations reveals a dialogue of care as the duo uncovers delicate and unexpected sonorities of the electric guitar, cello and two voices.
Francesca Naibo is an Italian guitarist who moves fluently across all the different conjugations of the guitar, from the classic, the electric, to the fretless and the pedal steel. Involved in the research for solo performance, she is focused on exploring sound in the fields of free improvisation and contemporary music, with a particular interest in using both the acoustic and the electric nature of her instrument, adventuring from roaring drones till microscopic vibrations. Naibo studied in Venice, Milan, Bern and Basel graduating in classical guitar and free improvisation. She completed the Deep Listening Teaching Certification and is currently a PhD student in Siena Jazz University. In 2020 her first solo album 'Namatoulee' was released by Aut Records. Her second solo album 'So much time' was released in 2022 by Ramble Records. Naibo is an active member of Milan-based collective Conserere since 2020.
Theresa Wong is a composer, multi-instrumentalist, and intermedia artist active at the intersection of composition, improvisation, and the synergy of multiple disciplines. As a cellist and vocalist, Wong has forged a unique vocabulary on her instruments through extensive explorations in new playing techniques, alternative tunings, and the timbral merging of singing and playing together. A 2024 Guggenheim Fellow in Music Composition, her works include 'Fluency of Trees' for cello and voice, which premiered at the Other Minds Festival, 'She Dances Naked Under Palm Trees', commissioned by pianist Sarah Cahill, and 'The Unlearning', a multi-media song cycle released on Tzadik and premiered at Roulette Intermedium. Her long-standing collaboration with Long String Instrument inventor Ellen Fullman includes 'Harbors', chosen as one of Wire’s top 50 releases of 2020, and 'Soundless', presented at the Volume Festival in Sidney and MOCA Los Angeles. Commissioned works include pieces for Del Sol Quartet, Splinter Reeds, Long Beach Opera, NakedEye Ensemble, and San Francisco Girls Chorus. Wong is the founder of fo'c'sle, a record label dedicated to releasing adventurous music from the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. She currently resides in the San Francisco Bay Area.