Alessandto Carabelli

Alessandro Carabelli Music ensemble: Indaco

by Nicholas F. Mondello
April 9, 2018

In Italian, a language of such beautiful color, “Indaco" translates as “Indigo." And, if there is anything that this recording is, it is indeed colorful, full of beauty, rhythmic variety and mood. Pianist and composer Alessandro Carabelli and his Ensemble offer 14 selections where texture and color predominate. This is highly intelligent and inviting music--without any appearance of pretentiousness. Each selection draws one's ear in, and, in the best Italian tradition, one's heart. Surprisingly, a cacophonic 30-plus ...