Erasing Borders by C.B.G | Celano/Baggiani Group

"Guitarist Celano is the winner of the North sea jazz composition assignment 2013..
His ten year old band with drummer Marcos Baggiani recently changed the lineup... New are bassist Clemens van der Feen and Belgian reed player Joachim Badenhorst and It appears to be a golden combination.
Celano writes tight. In most of the pieces there is a strange bridge, break, melodic quirk, rhythmic delay or acceleration, making his band members and the audience pay full attention to the music.
The music hosts an incredible freedom in the compositions, leaving enough space for the band members to express their idiosyncratic and intriguing ways of making music. The tension keeps you through out the concert at the edge of your seat..."
CD presentation || Tim Sprangers - de Volkskrant - 12 july 2013

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In 2013 I was assigned by the North Sea Jazz Festival to write approximately 75 min of music.
This task was an opportunity to further develop musical ideas on which I was already working.
At the same time, the work incorporates concepts and topics prevalent in my everyday life and those of most Europeans.
These concepts include the process of globalisation, its social consequences and the musical aspects of it.
The fact that cultural and political borders are shifting have an influence on our everyday lives.
The difference between various musical styles is becoming vague whilst some geo-political borders are becoming more and more defined.
Western classical music has been very influential during the last two to three hundred years.  However now more than ever, western pop, rock, blues and jazz are the most influential musical styles on the planet. Undeniably these western styles have also had an impact on my life.
This music focuses on these swaying processes.

In order to recreate some of these aspects the musical borders on the CD are vague as well as the borders between different musical techniques, styles and the combination of improvised and written music.
For example: "The Immigrant" was an attempt to resurrect many of the emotional situations in which immigrants find themselves.
The composition “Amsterdamse Chacarera” is a blurred combination of the Argentinean chacarera style with the Amsterdam music tradition which includes 20th century music, impro and jazz.
The song "War for Peace and Oil" speaks for itself. In the name of 'freedom, peace and democracy’ many people die and many people profit. This is another form of globalisation at times very similar to colonisation.
G.C.

“Marcos Baggiani is a fine mischief-maker whose surprising ideas often steer the music into unexpected new directions” – Volkskrant/Tim S
Born in Buenos Aires (AR) M.B. is a cutting-edge drummer, composer and producer.
He is a leading voice in Amsterdam's flourishing improvisation scene, both as player and organizer.
Here you will find most of his releases.
(and few more of colleagues)

marcosbaggiani.com
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