Raffaele Matta Trio - Bandra West (2024)

On April 5th, “Bandra West” will be released by the Sicilian label Isulafactory, in co-production with Lizard Records of Treviso, the new album by the eclectic guitarist and composer Raffaele Matta, in a trio with the drummer Nicola Vacca and the bassist Andrea Parodo. The album will be available on all digital streaming platforms and on CD.

Musical trajectories from distant lands: a journey eastwards, starting from Sardinia towards India, Vietnam and Thailand, with a long stop in Mumbai. Bandra West is a neighborhood of Mumbai, a city that after several concerts in the subcontinent has now become familiar to all the members of the trio. This album collects and represents sounds and images of some of the places where the trio brought their music, a tribute to Asia but above all to India.

Eight songs with clear emotional and geographical references, sometimes directional and sometimes cyclical, circular, like mantras that are repeated each time with subtle variations. It is thus possible to perceive, within the jazz-inspired compositions, rock, electronic and Middle Eastern characterizations, with large and meditative sound spaces, all with a clear reference to some sounds and experiments typical of contemporary European music and Indian classical music. Another peculiarity of the project is the rhythmic approach, based on a numerical system to build patterns, in which the drums are free to improvise within a rhythmic progression, as a melodic instrument would do on a harmonic progression.