‘Senseless Acts Of Love’ encourages listeners to embrace a more conscious and sustainable approach to exploration. It inspires us to connect deeply with the world we inhabit and appreciate the diverse cultures that coexist within it. This album captures the essence of unity, with collective improvisations and serendipitous moments of sonic synchronization.
The concepts of synchronicity and collectivity come together, promoting global connection, musical harmony, and simultaneously human harmony. The album highlights the importance of empathy, compassion, and shared experiences. The music aims to evoke a sense of unity, with collective improvisations and moments of both perfect and accidental simultaneity. Furthermore, the record incorporates the concept of slow travel, encouraging listeners to embrace a more mindful and sustainable approach to exploration. It seeks to inspire savoring the journey itself, appreciating the colors, shadows, and lights that accompany the path, painting a picture of train journeys, nocturnal dreams, and long sea voyages, emphasizing the beauty and meaning of contemplating intermediate moments and appreciating the connection between different places, cultures, and languages. Following the flow of things that resonate within us, doing what feels right, embracing one's own singularity while considering collectivity, lies at the heart of this album. Creating outside the box, composing twisted and oblique musical structures means thinking for oneself. But the ultimate goal is to celebrate our individuality using empathy. This is also the motto of Domanda Music. Empathy is the tool through which the individuality of musicians, and therefore of the world, is celebrated, because everyone is given a free voice.
Rosa recounts, "In recent years, I began to travel a lot for work, to places increasingly far from home, and having to fly frequently. I often wondered what I could do to be more sustainable. It’s a topic I find myself discussing with people who are particularly sensitive to climate change. What if I resumed another way of traveling, slowly savoring the journey in all its lights, shadows and colors? Maybe with a night train: falling asleep at night and waking up in the morning at destination, connecting two cities through a dreamlike experience. Or maybe by boat, on a journey that takes you to distant ports. This way you really have time to understand what you leave behind and what you are heading towards, enjoying the journey and what's in between.
In May 2022, I released my fifth album as a leader, "Sounds Like Freedom," with Los Angeles record label Domanda Music. It was recorded in September 2021 in Verona, Italy with Yazz Ahmed, Maurice Louca, and Marco Frattini, some of my favorite musicians with whom I have had the pleasure of working recently. From the studio session, we immediately felt a great connection musically and personally. Every concert after that was pure magic, co-creating different ideas each time, yet maintaining the structure of the album along with moments of improvisation. Since then, I felt the necessity of expanding the musical family by including in the group English composer and saxophonist Tamar Osborn and Italian guitarist Enrico Terragnoli. Tamar and Enrico entered the project as if they had always been part of it, interpreting the music with their unique and creative voices. The lineup for Sounds Like Freedom thus began to change shape, becoming an extended musical family. There was a natural desire to return to the studio to record a new musical chapter, by expanding the horn section to trumpet and flugelhorn, flute and baritone sax and trombone with the addition of trombonist and composer Luca Tapino, already a guest on the first album. We went into the recording studio in March 2023: two intense and wonderful days, full of beautiful music and joy. We wanted to maintain the idea that had accompanied us from the beginning, namely recording collective improvisations and some original compositions, with the direction of Tommaso Cappellato who joined us from Los Angeles for the artistic production."
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