Stefano Battaglia Trio - Songways

Facts Italian pianist Stefano Battaglia and his trio pick up on their acclaimed 2011 release the River of Anyder with a new selection of chants, hymns and dances, all written by Battaglia and inspired by descriptions of visionary places from art and literature from Alfred Kubin, Jonathan Swift or Charles Fourier to Italo Calvino. Song ways finds a new harmonic balance between archaic modal pre-tonal chant and dances, pure tonal songs and hymns and abstract texture, Battgalia says, thus documenting the natural development of the Trio life, with a larger space for action from the drums.