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01. NICOLA RATTI - White Morning
02. NICOLA RATTI - Afternoon
03. NICOLA RATTI - ...And Fireworks
04. NICOLA RATTI - Dream #1
05. NICOLA RATTI - Dream #2
06. NICOLA RATTI - Resume
07. NICOLA RATTI - Tropical Malady
ARTIST
TITLE
Ode
FORMAT
CD

LABEL
CATALOG #
PRE 023CD PRE 023CD
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
10/27/2009

The Preservation label presents Ode, the third album from Italy's Nicola Ratti. The former guitarist of self-described "math-jazz-rock trio" Pin Pin Sugar, Nicola first started recording solo works around the same time of their demise. He has also collaborated with Andrea Belfi and producer and engineer Giuseppe Ielasi in the duo Bellows. His is a deceptively languid, disarming sound of small and gentle gestures and loping rhythms, often repeated and subtly shifting in an impressionistic vision founded on traditional elements. Merging guitar, piano and double bass with percussion, environmental sounds and occasional voice, Nicola constructs songs that by turns float, swell and envelop in magnetic fashion. A piercing tenderness remains at the core of his work, though on Ode there is a more expansive palette at play for something that approaches a pure sense of grace in the sense of space and suspended atmosphere created. It's an ingratiating, personal language Nicola has been quietly developing, reaching the point with Ode where it's blossomed into something truly special.