Presentation cd Heureux Comme Avec Une Femme at Libreria Feltrinelli

Heureux comme avec une femme
Diana Torto & Roberto Bonati: two voices one chant

ParmaFrontiere presents Heureux comme avec une femme (ParmaFrontiere 2013, distr. Ird), the new CD by Roberto Bonati using the art of Diana Torto’s voice and his double bass playing as the foundations. One double bass and one voice: two vibrating cords. The music uses delicate and profound sounds in a magic ritual of night music. It’s primitive, untamed and enchanted. Diana Torto brings out the magic in her voice while Roberto Bonati, a virtuoso on his instrument, takes us to the heart of the double bass. Using a range of vocal and instrumental techniques the musicians give life to an intense polyphony. ...

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Heureux comme avec une femme
Diana Torto & Roberto Bonati: two voices one chant

ParmaFrontiere presents Heureux comme avec une femme (ParmaFrontiere 2013, distr. Ird), the new CD by Roberto Bonati using the art of Diana Torto’s voice and his double bass playing as the foundations. One double bass and one voice: two vibrating cords. The music uses delicate and profound sounds in a magic ritual of night music. It’s primitive, untamed and enchanted. Diana Torto brings out the magic in her voice while Roberto Bonati, a virtuoso on his instrument, takes us to the heart of the double bass. Using a range of vocal and instrumental techniques the musicians give life to an intense polyphony.
Once again Bonati gives us a profoundly contemporary work, one where the traditions and modernity of western music meet African, jazz and folk musics. Above all this lingers a very particular attention to the spiritual dimension in music and sound, a dimension in which the sacred and the popular meet and blur together. The roots of this dimension are immersed deep in history and it’s demonstrated here, with bass sounds and vocal variations, on an arrangement of Can vei la lauzeta by Bernart de Ventadorn.
Among the tracks there is also a homage to Sensation by Rimbaud, where the title of the CD is taken. The verses of Woman of the Woodlands, written by the bassist, give shape to a mysteriously tinged atmosphere.
Heureux comme avec une femme is the result of recent years’ work by the two musicians; an intimate and charming game of mirrors.
It takes two to know one.
Track-list

● Ark 2’31”
● Girotondo 6’13”
● Can vei la lauzeta - The Song 2’24” (Lyrics by Bernart de Ventadorn)
● Incanto 6’23”
● Woman of the Woodlands 5’12” (Lyrics by Roberto Bonati)
● Rouge 5’18”
● Cinque petali di una primavera 8’23”
● Heureux comme avec une femme 3’41” (Lyrics by Jean Nicolas Arthur Rimbaud)
● Une confiance de Lascaux 2’39”
● Sospeso come falco incerto 4’33”
● Malvarosa 7’52”
● Misteri 5’37”
● African lauzeta 2’29” (Lyrics by Bernart de Ventadorn)

All compositions by Roberto Bonati (S.I.A.E.) except “Can vei la lauzeta - The Song” and “African lauzeta” by Bernart de Ventadorn/Roberto Bonati.

Roberto Bonati

Composer, double bassist and conductor, Bonati has been active on the Italian Jazz scene since the 1980s and has collaborated with the best Italian musicians and important foreign musicians. He has collaborated for many years with Giorgio Gaslini and Gianluigi Trovesi.
As a leader of different formation he has participated in numerous tournaments all over the world. Since 1996 he has been the Artistic Director of the ParmaJazz Frontiere Festival.
Bonati has created a very personal language in which the musical expressions of the 20th century merge. His is a music that draws constantly from contemporary music and jazz - a jazz that isn’t a genre but rather a language; a refined language that constructs intense emotional states that can hold different poems and musical cultures, especially with the particular use of the female voice.
He has been a teacher of Composition and Jazz Improvisation at the “A. Boito” Conservatoire in Parma since 2002 where he is also head of the Jazz Department.
Diana Torto

Diana Torto is one of the best contemporary singers working in Europe. She has active collaborations with John Taylor, Kenny Wheeler, Louis Sclavis, Vince Mendoza, Anders Jormin, Julian Argüelles, Glauco Venier, Danilo Rea, Gino Paoli and the Colours Jazz Orchestra. She performs in numerous international festivals.
Amongst the titles in her discography is Triangoli with John Taylor and Anders Jormin.
She teaches jazz singing in the Conservatoire in Bologna.

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