Freedom Meditation Music Vol. III

"The record presented here is the third and final installment of Valerio Cosi’s Freedom Meditation Series, one of the many ventures Valerio has been participating in in recent times. Contrary to the collective movements of new and younger generations working with the jazz lexicon in the saxophone, Cosi does not focus on the more extreme free manifestations as put to tape by Kaoru Abe, Albert Ayler or Peter Broetzmann. Though obviously informed by that vocabulary (and using it too, but in other projects), his wonderful horn playing here seems more connected with the heroic, more traditionally melodic phrasing of Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders - that realm of tone, that grandiouseness (and at 22!!). But even though he already is an accomplished jazz player, everything else on the record seems even more bordering on the positively ridiculous. Playing all the instruments (from several electronics, sax overdubs, keyboards & what have you) apart from the drums – his regular collaborator Enzo Franchini is responsible for that -, Cosi has meticulously thought out & orchestrated everything on this record. Utilizing various recordings from several settings, he’s cut up and pasted them up in his own skewed and purposeful compositional logic. The agglomeration of idioms and genres he touches base with is immense. Coming from what he describes as a devotion of “jazz, improvisation, ultrapsychedelia and kraut rennaisance”, his love for many forms of marginal &/or universal expression totally shines through with knowledge & fire, using everything from raga/drone sound beds as platform for some heavy duty horn lyricism, to some old good vibed chanting, to some straight up spaced out synth jamming. CD-R comes with hard case digipack with Valerio’s artwork. Some of the first public giant steps from one of Europe’s new generation finest free thinking, free feeling, true originals." - Pedro Gomes, 2007 http://www.freewebs.com/rubyredlabel http://www.myspace.com/rubyrededitora