GIANCARLO LOCATELLI, Bb clarinet, alto clarinet, bass clarinet

ALBERTO BRAIDA, piano

The Braida-Locatelli duo was formed in 1996 and focuses both on improvisation and its relationship with composition.
During these years of activity the duo played several time in Europe and U.S.
The duo collaborates with poets, actors, dancers and other musicians too. SMONTA TUTTO in an active trio that that was founded in 2008 by the duo together with Gino Robair.
Since 2001 the duo conduct a permanent workshop about improvised music in the Musical Academy "F. Gaffurio" in Lodi and since 2002 is part of the artistic direction of the contemporary and improvised music festival "ContemporaneaMente" in Lodi.

Richard Cochrane ("Musings"), about their first CD "diciannove calefazioni", wrote:
"Very idiosincratic and very beautiful improvisations... these nineteen pieces sound like nothing much else on the planet... Indeed, it's the way this duo make their music communicate across the rests which makes them so special. While each individual particle seems unremarkable, they combine into something which, in spite of everything, makes perfect sense. Uncompromisingly atonal and unmetrical, like a high-wire act without the wire, these pieces really ought to fail sometimes, but they simply don't. Partly this is down to their great sense of timing, partly their careful note-choice makes sense of an environment which has abandoned it. On its own, though, this wouldn't explain the fantastic music they make from such unyielding materials. This disc is a triumph of a uncompromising vision shared by two musicians".

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