Lights Kind Folk Quartet

• 1 Ambleside 04:37
• 2 Everybody’s song but not my own 05:41
• 3 Green Tara 04:55
• 4 Sweet Dulcinea Blue 04:54
• 5 Smatter 03:41
• 6 Waiting for a new spring 06:07
• 7 Kind Folk 05:17
• 8 Consolation 06:43
• 9 Mark Time 04:13
• 10 Introduction to no particular song 05:23
• Total Runtime 51:31

Info for Lights

Kind Folk that was born in 2010; Manuela Pasqui and Leonardo De Rose, playing together, immediately discovered themselves on the same line of expressive-musical research and began to navigate in the direction of the quartet. Several years of work and concerts pass until 2019 when the meeting with two exceptional musicians, Danielle Di Majo and Giampiero Silvestri, takes place. From this moment on Kind Folk takes off; an immediate harmony blossoms that shifts production in the direction of original compositions, and leads to the release of the first record. Among the tracks recorded, in addition to tributes to composer Kenny Wheeler, are unreleased pieces that reveal the quartet's work: revolving around the minimalist horizon with a focus on the beauty of acoustic sounds and the search for melodic fluidity. Rhythm and melody, stasis and action, melancholy and euphoria, light and shadow, like yin and yang, endlessly chase each other in a game of interaction and sonic impasto. This is the quartet's research work that transpires from their record, “Lights.”

Danielle Di Majo, alto & soprano saxophones, alto flute
Manuela Pasqui, piano
Leonardo De Rose, upright bass, bass
Giampiero Silvestri, drums

Manuela Pasqui
was born in Rome on 3 April 1974. Her passion for music blossomed very early when fascinated, she listened to her father playing an ancient harmonpiano and her mother singing Italian songs. Academic studies came later, after a long period of self-taught study and after the scholarship won in his first year of music school. Manuela immediately moved across classical music, improvisation and composition, amazed by jazz and in love with Bach. She graduated in piano with Maestro Walter Fischetti, jazz composition and composition.

After her graduation, she performed in Italy and Switzerland with a late romantic repertoire; chamber duo piano and voice, which will be one of his favorite formations in classical music. She took part in a curious project directed by Bruno Tommaso, the Pianofortofono, a huge set of pianos, performed like an orchestra and in the same years two of her first projects began: Il Trio (with A. Colocci on double bass and M. Landriani on drums) with whom she recorded her first album of original compositions “Dark face”. The Epistrophy quartet with Tiziana Nauaui on vocals, A.Colocci and M.Landriani with arrangements of standards and pop music songs; they will play for Radio 3 Suite and in various theaters in Rome. Machine project is also born which will have a variable lineup but always with the voice of Sara Della Porta and with which they will tour Italy; the first album of this project, Music for a While, will be published by ZONE DI MUSICA and will have excellent critical success; Guests of this recording are Javier Girotto, Fabrizio Sferra, F.Puglisi- The repertoir is made by Manuela: arrangements of songs taken from the classical repertoire. This is a something she will z...........continue reunite the worlds from which she comes.

From these first experiences other collaborations with exceptional musicians such as Agostino Di Giorgio, Andrea Colella,R.Gambatesa, D.Massimi, P.Grillo, S.La Rocca, L.De Rose, Fabrizio Sferra, Javier Girotto, Francesco Puglisi, and many others were born.Manuela continues her research with Ramberto Ciammarughi, Danilo Rea, Rita Marcotulli in Siena Jazz with John Taylor and Kenny Werner; faces the world of teaching and publishes a collection of studies for improvisation. She continues to compose and publish records.As she delved deeper into the study of the many piano languages, she came across Ernesto Nazareth to whom she dedicated a solo piano show in which the films that the Brazilian composer introduced with his music at the Odeon at the end of the 19th century were projected. The title of the project is DENGOZOThe duo "Se non fosse per la Musica" is born with the amazing voice of Arianna Consoli; and then Manuela's project entitled KIND FOLK and dedicated to trumpet player and composer Kenny Wheeler. With this project she plays in various events as a duo, trio and quartet with Andrea Colella on double bass, Danielle Di Majo on saxes and flute, Sara Della Porta voice, Agostino di Giorgio, guitar, Giampiero Silvestri, drums. The first album published by Filibusta records is entitled LIGHTS.In the 2000s Manuela, together with Marco Landriani and other partners, founded a musical association "Fonderie Musicali" which will carry on a music school for 18 years, two festivals (VEJO JAZZ first and second edition) and a musical event in Vejo Park.

In 2020 she met Danielle Di Majo, amazing saxofonist, flute player and composer; a unique partnership was born which is still operational and fruitful. Together they have published three albums (COME AGAIN, EQUILIBRISMI, PUCCINI, MY LOVE) for Filibusta Records and perform concerts all over the world. An important part of Manuela's artistic work is theatre; She has always collaborated with amzing artists including Daniela Giordano (Taboo, Fondata sul lavoro, I Cantacronache), Alessia Piermarini (Me, Myself and I), Andrea Pergolari (Italo Calvino, literary marathon)

Manuela has collaborated and played on the albums: Escatologic Song, Danila Massimi - Le mezze stagioni, Damiano La Rocca - Sepharade, Tiziana Nawawi quartet - Alberto Tebaldi jazz project.

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