Feelin' Good: the New Album of the Bensey Road

Genazzano (RM), Italia, December 3, 2014 (Newswire.com) - Feelin' Good is a musical journey whose main protagonists are artists who have been under the spotlights in the history of music over the past few years: from Paul Desmond to Mike Stern, from Django Reinhardt to Stephane Wrembel, from Paolo Conte to Kenny Dorham. The two young musicians, Matteo Consoli (clarinet) and Antonio Spaziano (guitar), succeeded in combining different aspects and sounds on the basis of the same stylistic views.

Particularly interesting in the Feelin' Good tracklist is “Bistro Fada”, a song they arranged and played with clarinet and guitar for the first time. As it happened with the other songs, the studio recording of Bistro Fada gave to the duo the possibility of enriching the sonorities through their use of backing vocalists and particular melodic patterns, which makes the listening a fuller and more meaningful experience. “Take Five” stands out because of its changing the rhythm into a 4/4 metre, while “The Klezmer's Freilach” closes the album with its expressive and evocative power.

The album becomes even more interesting thanks to the participation of many guest artists, as in “A Night In Tunisia”, featuring Angelo Marcoccia (drums), “After you”, with Antonello Ustino (soprano saxophone), “Ain't no Sunshine”, featuring Andrea Colangelo (vocalist), “Minor Swing”, with Elisabetta Paolini (violin), and “Cantaloupe Island”, featuring Alessandro Fresu (trumpet).

Apart from the use of backing vocalists and the many collaborations, the album has been enriched by the introduction of digital effects that can transform a clarinet into a Theremin, put it in a radio broadcast of the 1930s, and make it produce sounds which are generally impossible to play with a wind instrument.