ASTROLABIOANIMA
Alessandro Gandola Giovanni Sollima
In march 2006 during three days of full immersion in the atmospheres of lake como, Alessandro in duo with the cellist performer composer GIOVANNI SOLLIMA create the music that two years later were pubished as the CD ASTROLABIOANIMA.
… a recording of rare beauty, Gandola and Sollima are like two Michelangelos transported by a creative impetus to discover sounds, grasping ideas and inspiration even from the space that surrounds them.
(Giuseppe Attardi ,march 9 2008)
Gandola e Sollima are musicians and musical instruments, men fused with there instruments.
(Valentina Di Cecco. Lost Highways, 26 maggio 2008)
“ A new language vithout borders... it open new way to the musical exploration”
(La Feltrinelli, 2008)
“A music of an extraordinary contemporary quality ...a kind of war machine of sensations... a comunicative power of rare strength and great mystery”
(Rosario Pantaleo. L’Isola che non c’era, 2008)
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In march the presentation of the album in the Tunisian desert as event of “ La musica e il silenzio” organized by “il cammello a 3 gobbe”
... it is possible to meet two great international soloist playing music in the middle of the great tunisian desert as in a concert hall?... they was there, playing as talking to each other. With there instruments they were calling and answering... composing and improvising at the same time... interacting in the territory of the sound, of the body, of the movement, like they had the goal to go over the conventional border.
(Carla Maria Casanova. Il Giorno, 20th march 2008)
The violoncelo, the sax and the stones, are part of the same vibrating univers.
...make music is leting go the istinct for express everything. Both of them say that music essentially is the search of sensations and experiences... it is something to do with the emotion, the one that disorients and leaves you breathless and helps you fell alive and gives you the desire of life.
(Fabio Schiavo. Rolling Stones, giugno 2008)