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Pellerin, Guy-Frank / Mattias Boss / Eugenio Sanna : Water Reflections (FMR)

Three disparate improvisers--Guy-Frank Pellerin on soprano & tenor saxophones, Matthias Boss on violin & voice and Eugenio Sanna on amplified guitar plus small metallic layers, balloons & voice--present a non-idiomatic, fully improvised set of "sonorities, fragments, atmospheres seeming to constitute independent parts, but actually forming a unicum".
 

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Personnel:



Guy-Frank Pellerin-soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone

Matthias Bossi-violin, voice

Eugenio Sanna-amplified guitar, small metallic layers, balloons, voice


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UPC: 642415162777

Label: FMR
Catalog ID: FMR 604
Squidco Product Code: 30333

Format: CD
Condition: New
Released: 2021
Country: UK
Packaging: Digipack - 3 panel
Recorded at Montegiori Studio, in Camairoe Italy, on September 25th, 2019, by Daniele Onori.

Descriptions, Reviews, &c.

"Three musicians coming from different musical backgrounds and different creative experiences meet to create a totally improvised music characterized by a continuous alternation of moods and feelings.

The result is a particular suite structure vitalised by a set of sonorities, fragments, atmospheres seeming to constitute independent parts, but actually forming a unicum.

The surprising interweaving of the three instrumental voices gives rise to a single voice, a single sound in which the individual instruments appear to be cancelled out."-Stefano Arcangeli


Artist Biographies

Guy-Frank Pellerin is a saxophonist performing improvised music-- instant composition, free, sctructuree or unstructured, without premeditation, sometimes meditated. Collective and sound creation meetings or individual. He is known for the group Dieci Ensemble.

-Soundcloud (https://soundcloud.com/guy-frank-pellerin-1)
4/9/2025

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"Matthias Boss (Switzerland), Violinist, painter and sculptor, was born in 1958 in Biel, Switzerland. He studied classical violin at the University of Bern and spent a period of study and work in Milan, developing research in musical languages and pursuing his interests in sculpture and painting. He has been described as one of the most interesting artists of the European avant-garde music scene. He has worked in numerous theatrical projects in Switzerland.

Currently he is involved in several collaborative projects with some of the most representative artists of the European scene: R. Del Piano, M. Magliocchi, C. Zingaro, A. Moimeme, P. Curado, P. Chagas, J.P. Viegas, J.M. Van Schouwburg, Maresuke Okamoto, N. Guazzaloca, Marcio Mattos and others.

He has made concert tours in Italy, Portugal, Austria, Germany and England."

-Pueblo Nuevo (https://pueblonuevo.cl/bios/matthias-boss/)
4/9/2025

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"Eugenio Sanna guitarist was co-founder of CRIM (Centro per la Ricerca sull'Improvvisazione Musicale) in Pisa, Italy in 1976. Since that time he has been an active music improviser having worked with the leading artists in this genre. A sought after performer he has appeared in music festivals throughout Europe. Sanna is also known for his collaborative works with theater groups such as Giuseppe Chiari's Fluxus, and Flavia Bucciero's Movimento In Actor. Sanna has been a guest performer and lecturer at New York University, as well as in the NYU Summer Music, Dance and Technology Program in Italy. His articles have been published by Jazz Magazine(France), Museo Teo-Art Fanzine (Italy) Sottotiro Review( Italy), Jazz 360 (Switzerland), and Blow Up (Italy). Sanna has recorded for labels including Splash Records, Burp Sonic Inventions, WM Boxes Ed., Ada Records, and AFK records."

-Amirani Records (https://www.amiranirecords.com/artists/eugeniosanna)
4/9/2025

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Track Listing:



1. Water Reflections 2:14

2. Gem 7:20

3. Raven 3:01

4. Lied Fur Den Frosch 3:24

5. Accelerazione Ben Riflessa 11:42

6. Disponible D'Ici Peu Ou Maintenant 8:33

7. Welcome Cavallo 6:06

8. Hyperunder 10:48

9. Consacrazione Del moderno 7:13

10. Euguma 12:46

Related Categories of Interest:


Improvised Music
Free Improvisation
Electro-Acoustic Improv
European Improvisation, Composition and Experimental Forms
Trio Recordings

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