Bicho Bolita by Rodrigo Domínguez

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Rodrigo Dominguez: soprano and tenor saxophones
Nataniel Edelman: piano and Fender Rhodes
Fermin Merlo: drums and percussion

Rodrigo Domínguez's seventh album under his own name, second with ears&eyes Records, and first since his move to Bariloche, Patagonia, Argentina, Bicho Bolita was recorded to portray the musical momentum that was generated with this trio from some concerts in Buenos Aires, Bariloche, and at the Osorno Jazz Festival in Chile. The music took off in a way that had to be recorded!

Domínguez has been actively participating in the Buenos Aires jazz scene since the late 1990s, having recorded dozens of albums with the most important local artists of the genre. He has generated and participated in many projects in these years, toured widely throughout the Americas and Europe, and collaborated with international artists on various occasions. During the second year of the pandemic, he emigrated to the city of Bariloche, in Argentine Patagonia, and that move generated a change in everything he does and feels, including, of course, music. This album reflects these aesthetic and conceptual changes in a natural way, and one can hear the search for a renewed language, more refined, more playful and relaxed. This search is supported by the choice of musicians, young people who bring a new energy, although with a fully developed and mature language.

Nataniel Edelman is a superb pianist, with a sound and rhythmic poise that is rare, great harmonic imagination and incessant ideas. In recent years he has developed his own language, informed by a wide variety of influences from jazz and classical music, and has recorded several albums under his own name, with the collaboration of musicians such as Michael Attias and Michael Formanek, and several of the most outstanding local musicians. His collaboration with Domínguez goes back several years.

Fermín Merlo is one of the most creative drummers on the current scene. Being the son of Hernán Merlo, legendary Argentine double bass player, from a very young age he had the opportunity to play with the musicians who hung around the house, and thus developed his playful approach to music. Fermín has played with Rodrigo since he was very young and they have developed a very strong rapport.

Several tunes on this album belong to a series of “songs” that emerge by imposing their own aesthetic, and there is not much to do about it: they are like that. Bicho Bolita, Polenta Mágica and Rota belong to this subgenre of the author's musical world. Part of the search that is heard throughout this recording has to do with that “letting things be what they want to be”.