NOBLE ART

Edition number nineteen of Amirani records is NOBLE ART

Outstanding live performance: two piano players dancing the self-discovering music, the self-revealing touch, the self-delivering art.
Something like an elegant force, an auto-shaping sound giant, refined with mirroring nuances, dynamic climbings, extented explorations in
tone deepness.
Thollem and Nicola deliver a memorable “comprovisation” concert for two pianos.

"Noble Art" is a French definition of  Boxe.
I've ever suspected about the definition of the boxe as "sport", but this kind of practice  (discipline?) has  a charming call to me.
Boxe comes from ancient Olimpyc games and it's easy  to find fighting boxers drawn or painted on ancient greek decorated pots .
Ideally, Boxe could be seen as the performance of a pure challenge of  style, strategy, force, class.
I can remember names of boxers back to more than  50  years ago.
I was ,and still i am intrigued in styles, the aesthetic way one expresses himself.
Greatest men have their style, closer to their inner self.
"Style" is close to "elegance" and "elegance" is  close to "form".
The reason of the expression "Noble Art" is due to  the  idea of sublimation of a basic, animal instinct, figth for supremacy coming from primitive inner  pulsions to a performing challenge between pure forces, played  in  respect   of accepted, shared ,codes, rules.

 So the real challenge should be (and, sorry, no more  is, today) to  play the force with elegance, style.
only  "gentlemen" had this sublimation gift.
now, if you guys feel that image as "your" image fighting one against the other, i simply say that’s not my idea.
My idea is: there's a place where challenges are, there's a match, could be not your match, could be "a"  match (…)

‘Bout the music: i've just listened the recording and here we have some deep moments there.
Sometimes you're tactic and careful, then finally more bodied moments unveal your emotions and your physical attitudes take place (…).

Gianni Mimmo, excerpt from  e-mail “Concept of Noble Art”, April 09

c r e d i t s

comprovisers _ Thollem Mc Donas ( left piano), Nicola Guazzaloca ( right piano)
recording _ 2007, July 10th, live at Scuola Popolare di Musica “Ivan Illich”, Bologna , Italy
sound engineer & mixing _ Nicola Guazzaloca
mastering _ Maurizio Giannotti, New Mastering Studio, Milano, Italy
artwork _ Nicola Guazzaloca
sentence _ Gregory Bateson
concept _ Gianni Mimmo
graphics _ Mirko Spino
production _ Gianni Mimmo for Amirani records