Gerardo Frisina - Rhythmic Conversations (2018)

With Rhythmic Conversations Gerardo Frisina shifts the coordinates of his music to a more raw soundscape, in which the rhythmic element stands in the foreground. Not just Latin-jazz dance floor material then, but music with strong percussive and tribal elements. Music is perhaps the only truly effective language that allows people who speak different idioms to communicate with each other, and this is precisely what Gerardo Frisinas Rhythmic Conversations are about. Closing the record we have an alternative version of Camagüey, a very different mix from the original one, in a particular Afro-Cuban music style called Tumbao. Gerardo Frisina has been at the forefront of the Italian nu-jazz scene for the best part of two decades, and his albums have consistently drawn widespread acclaim.