Pipeline 3 & 5 / US

mine, following a path that I’d been testing here and there for a while. In spite of the pieces being written quite traditionally, with a bass line, internal voices and in some cases even chord guidelines, I didn’t give Gianmaria and Simone the full score but I just played each piece repeatedly, leaving them free to improvise and slowly build a network of possibilities surrounding the main melody. Melody that in turn I modified following their “cushions”, “counter-melodies”, “voices” and “layers”. The “movable plans” peculiarity of the trio’s music, its propensity to work on different layers also individually, it’s exactly what brought me the idea to amplify the number of voices, doubling guitar and contrabass by adding Tito and Sergio, quite different and somehow complementary to Simone and Gianmaria. Giancarlo nino Locatelli BOX SET LP (Flatus) + CD (Crocus) + 8 photos by Pietro Bologna Pipeline 3 FLATUS (LP) Giancarlo nino Locatelli – bass clarinet, percussion Gianmaria Aprile – guitar, pedals, effects, percussion Simone Fratti – double bass, kalimba, musical saw, percussion Pipeline 5 CROCUS (CD) Giancarlo nino Locatelli – bass clarinet, percussion Gianmaria Aprile – guitar, pedals, effects, percussion Tito Mangialajo Rantzer – double bass Sergio Prada – guitar, objects Simone Fratti – double bass, kalimba, musical saw, percussion