Description
Artists: Silvana Renzini
Title: Mal’s Colors
Genre: Jazz
Release date: 2008
Record Company: Ultra Sound Records
Musicians:
Silvana Renzini: piano
Maurizio Signorino: sax soprano
‘ Mal’s Colors ‘ it’s a series of pieces dedicated to the great afroamerican pianist who marked deeply Silvana Renzini’s musical path. Mali’s Colors it’s also a cross-project concerned with music and painting along with painter Laura Tornadù within the wider interactive project “rencontre”. The song “Blues in Mal’s Colors”, which started the project, it’s a modal blues, whose main theme it’s a musical acrostic of afroamerican pianist’s name. For what is concerned with used colors correspondance method, blue, yellow and orange rose up from a black canvas: they’re Mali’s Colors! Talking about black, suffice it to remember a composition of his entitled “La Gloire Du Noir”. One of the last compositions, following the timeline, it’s “Moonless Night Chant”: its features are a repeated core-tune and dark atmospheres in refrain A, a 16 bars bridge, characterized by a modular melody, but featuring a certain amount of harmonic variety, and last section C creating a less dark atmosphere like a presage of light. This piece won first prize at “Note Di Donna”, during its second edition in 2008, a contest promoted by Piacenza Jazz Festival.
