flatus

The Pipeline group begins as a trio, with Gianmaria and Simone. After a short period of free improvisation I
suggested to face some compositions of mine, following a path that I’d been testing here and there for a
while. In spite of the pieces being written quite traditionally, with a bass line, internal voices and in some
cases even chord guidelines, I didn’t give Gianmaria and Simone the full score but I just played each piece
repeatedly, leaving them free to improvise and slowly build a network of possibilities surrounding the main
melody. Melody that in turn I modified following their “cushions”, “counter-melodies”, “voices” and “layers”.
(Giancarlo nino Locatelli)

The basic elements are the search for the essential, for a transparent lightness which doesn’t exlude but
indeed underlines emotional intensity; the solidity of structural thought, no matter whether improvised or
composed; the full knowledge and respect for tradition, for the history that each instrument entails; the clear
definition of the desired sound, perfectly outlined in order to give to each note the right weight in relation with
other sounds – or with silence.
(Francesco Martinelli, Pisa, January 2015)