"Amirani Records, the label founded and run by Milanese soprano saxophonist Gianni Mimmo, ends its eighteen-year run with three final releases. The last of the three, a recording of the Sestetto Internazionale, was reviewed here earlier; preceding it a duet for Mimmo and Finnish soprano and sopranino saxophonist Harri Sjöström, and a solo recording by Milanese cellist Walter Prati.
Mimmo and Sjöström are frequent collaborators, whether in the Sestetto Internazionale or as duet partners, and on Wells, their well-practiced chemistry shows. Throughout the album they spontaneously create themes and variations that they pass back and forth, telepathically complete each other’s phrases, and braid their lines together into knots of complex counterpoint. The two voices are clearly separated in the recording which makes each player – Mimmo, with a round, warm sound, and Sjöström, with a sharper attack and more angular approach to phrasing – easily identifiable." - Daniel Barbiero
