The Claudio Scolari Project‘s fifth album project is Cosmology, described as “the soundtrack of an imaginary journey into space.” The band’s music relies on an endless series of deep grooves laid down by bassist Michel Cavalca and the twin drum sets of Claudio Scolari and Daniele Cavalca. They add in piano and a stack of keyboards and synthesizers, spice it up with live electronics, then top it off with Simone Scolari’s trumpet for maximum effect. While there’s no denying the influence of electric-era Miles Davis, that’s just the starting point for this baker’s dozen of songs co-written by the two drummers, except for Collision, a collaboration between Daniele Cavalca and Simone Scolari. There’s a brooding and downbeat quality to much of this music, understandable in a session recorded in the midst of a pandemic. Trippy and with a beat, Cosmology is deliriously psychedelic and consistently engrossing. Recommended.
Principle CSDC 08; Simone Scolari (tpt) Michele Cavalca (b) Daniele Cavalca (live synth, Rhodes el p, p, drum set 2) Claudio Scolari (drum set 1, synth programming); Reggio Emilia. Italy, December 2020; Dark Matter/ Magnitude/ Hyper Galaxy/ Aurora/ Zenith/ Spectrum/ Cosmology/ Blue Shift/ Aphelion/ Lunation/ Black Hole/ Collision/ Nebula; 74:53. www.claudioscolari.com
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