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Recorded in a single hour thanks to the availability of a friend who put his flat with grand piano in the outskirts of Milan at our disposal, 'Afternoon' was born from a single extemporaneous electroacoustic improvisation session.

The only common goal was to focus on the essentially timbral aspect, trying to explore the widest possible sound range of both the flute, bass flute, piccolo and the traditional Sicilian friscaletto, and the piano (whose repeated melodic/intervallic micro-cells are often alternated with more timbric and percussive ones, obtained by playing the instrument with drumsticks). Electronics, in this context, is a further and fundamental element that relates to the other two, capable of indicating directions and uniting intentions, amplifying environments and textures created by the acoustic instruments, and highlighting colours and contrasts.

But "Afternoon" does not end with this description alone, which at first glance (or listening) may give the idea of something merely occasional. Almost twenty years after our debut album ("Voices" in 2004, also recorded as a duo with exclusively jazz compositions and modus operandi), this work documents the act of "seeing ourselves again", of questioning ourselves in the light of the experiences, often distant or even diametrically opposed, accumulated over all this time. It is a poetic and perhaps inexorably melancholic account of time, of the future, but above all of our imperfections without which 'making music' would not be possible.

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released September 22, 2023

all music by Rosario Di Rosa and Carlo Nicita, except 'Round Midnight' by Thelonious Monk

Rosario Di Rosa piano, electronics, field recordings
Carlo Nicita piccolo, friscaletto, flute, bass flute, live loops

Recorded on 1 October 2022 at Mell's home by Carlo Nicita, Milan.
Mixed and mastered by Rosario Di Rosa at "the Bunker" in Comiso (RG)
between October 2022 and August 2023.
Cover photo by Rosario Di Rosa

contact: carlo.nicita@yahoo.it
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Carlo Nicita Milan, Italy

www.carlonicita.com
La Deep Voice Records è una etichetta indipendente creata nel 2016 da Rosario Di Rosa e Carlo Nicita
allo scopo di produrre i propri progetti discografici in completa autonomia e indipendenza creativa.

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