MIZU by Federico Marchesano, Fabio Giachino

The MARCHESANO / GIACHINO Duo, was born with the idea of building an original repertoire of entirely written music, making the most of the tonal possibilities of the two instruments available: double bass and piano. After initial rehearsals with very intricate parts, the musicians needed to leave more space to jazz improvisation, a common background, smoothing out the initial structural rigidity. The sound became more fluid and it was an almost natural consequence to think of water (in Japanese Mizu) as the main theme of the entire album. Although they both love to explore the possibilities offered by electronics applied to their instrument, for this recording the two artists decided on a strictly acoustic approach. Stylistically, no limits have been set, alternating wide melodies played with the bowed double bass with more jazzy parts, a music in which the passions of both naturally converge.

Born from a commission of the Turin Jazz Festival 2018, the group is made up of Louis Sclavis on clarinets, Enrico Degani on classical guitar, Mattia Barbieri on drums and Federico Marchesano on double bass.
They hover between writing and improvisation, embracing minimalism, psychedelic and jazz, drawing desolate and intimate soundscapes, sometimes crossed by lashes of pure rock energy.