Pipeline 3 & 5 / US

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”.
The “movable plans” peculiarity of the trio’s music, its propensity to work on different layers also individually, it’s exactly what brought me the idea to amplify the number of voices, doubling guitar and contrabass by adding Tito and Sergio, quite different and somehow complementary to Simone and Gianmaria.
Giancarlo nino Locatelli

BOX SET
LP (Flatus) + CD (Crocus) + 8 photos by Pietro Bologna

Pipeline 3 FLATUS (LP)
Giancarlo nino Locatelli – bass clarinet, percussion
Gianmaria Aprile – guitar, pedals, effects, percussion
Simone Fratti – double bass, kalimba, musical saw, percussion

Pipeline 5 CROCUS (CD)
Giancarlo nino Locatelli – bass clarinet, percussion
Gianmaria Aprile – guitar, pedals, effects, percussion
Tito Mangialajo Rantzer – double bass
Sergio Prada – guitar, objects
Simone Fratti – double bass, kalimba, musical saw, percussion