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My latest single ‘Nuvem Negra’ was released last week. Yesterday the video of the studio recording came out on YouTube. The song was recorded last June at Studio Dippel in Schiedam by Thomas Dippel. I was lucky to be able to record with three great......

Nuvem Negra is a song written by Djavan and performed by Gal Costa. I have loved this song for a long time and have always wanted to record it. The beautiful arrangement was written by Fernan Mejuto Vazquez – it starts as a bolero and......

Emilia Vancini, Augusto Pirodda: And If You Fall, You Fall BY NERI POLLASTRI July 5, 2021 1,162 Views Duetto tra musicisti nostrani che ormai da tempo vivono all’estero, questo breve album—mezz’ora scarsa di musica—è un fulgido esempio di come si possa ancora trattare del materiale tradizionale......

Vous avez adoré Jeanne Lee avec Mal Waldron ou Ran Blake ? Vous allez adorer Emilia Vancini avec Augusto Pirodda. Bien sûr, comparaison n’est pas raison et le duo italien a bien d’autres atouts à faire valoir pour se distancier de ces illustres exemples. En......

Aldo Del Noce scrive: “…s’apprezza particolarmente il programma operativo, secondo il quale non vi erano forme d’arrangiamento predefinito, lasciando piuttosto che a seconda dell’istantaneità si determinasse l’orientamento musicale da prendere. La funzionale interfaccia voce-pianoforte qui tesaurizza la perizia pianistica di Augusto Pirodda nonché la schietta......

A beautiful article by Leonid Auskern: “Even when the song begins in a more or less traditional version (Just friends) or with an exemplary scat (But not for me), further development proceeds along the unbeaten path chosen by Emilia and Augusto” YOU CAN READ THE......

Georges Tonla Briquet writes: “A world of vocal bends and sober string playing. Extremely controlled and restrained in sepia colors, elaborated according to a very personal ritual. Mixing and mastering was in the hands of none other than Manolo Cabras. Somewhere between Anna Homler, Jeanne......

“… I found it more than fit to stand beside similar piano and voice albums by performers such as June Christy & Stan Kenton, Doris Day & Andre Previn, Ella Fitzgerald & Ellis Larkins”-Leon Nock, Jazz Journal – Wow, you made our day !!  ......

After one and a half year of hard work, a lot of travelling between Belgium and Holland, recording in different studios, and Covid-19 – here it is – our new cd: “And If You Fall, You Fall” – released on Amazon.com, Apple Music, Spotify and......

A great review by Jan Veldman of “Jazz in Europe” – in which he writes: “I think what makes this album so appealing is its pure honesty” Thank you Jan ! This is what we are trying to be in our music, it gives us......