(. Cusa Francesco Photo: Promo / Nanni Angeli) "Pape Satan, pape Satan alepp," With these words of Pluto in the seventh song "Inferno" by Dante Alighieri. Pluto, a wolf-like creature guards the fourth ring of hell Alighieri'schen to roll wailing in the miser and spendthrift stone burdens.
"Pape Satan, pape Satan alepp," - also with this line overrides the Sicilian jazz drummer and composer Francesco Cusa on the accompanying CD, "You Démon et d'autres questions" (1999) and his band "66six". And the musician writes about the context of this music: "Father Satan, father Satan. The devil first. The devil, of seeping into our dull lives. Queue, insomnia, depressive shoes, headache, occupied toilets. But stories about pirates, sold souls sacred virgins, horrible incest and decimated families. In a word, the daily routine. ... All this translated into music by shaking, collected and served as a small coven. ... Just do not tell me that Edgar Allan Poe, Stanley Kubrick or Grenouille had no pact with the devil. Do not tell me, Nicole Kidman would not be a form of self-horned goat! "
The title of this CD are either named after demons from Christian demonology or persons in which one follows Cusa, temptations and dangers embody. "Abigor" is the Serenade for Nicole Kidman, "Buzzati's Capture "refers to the" occupation "of thought of the once famous Italian journalist, painter, illustrator and stage designer Dino Buzzati by the Catholic Church, other compositions are Stanley Kubrick, the perfume of Grenouille and Edgar Allan Poe dedicated. Still other demons to be addressed with titles, so Halphas, a demon in the form of pigeons, the city ignites and sends people to war.
"Oh, let's not talk about demons, but about the music," Francesco Cusa laughs defensively and mischievous, for these things are just a fun game. And if he is with his mind as the provocative, sarcastic Humor Frank Zappa proves influenced combines the nonsense and sense in itself, so you can feel especially in the musical Zappa's flair: complex rock rhythms, bizarre-acting motifs and themes, built from daring intervallic leaps and strange key signature changes, gnashing his teeth and rough sounding, but liquid plays guitar lines and recordings of mysterious-sounding phone voice and technique of noise.
course, these are only hints - Cusa eigenwertig music, sound, in contrast to the Zappa, completely European. Brilliant brass improvisations play not only an illustrative, but a central role. Above all, the rhythm is on Cusa, the favorite all jazz drum Friends, Southern European-fascinating. Cusa's cunning, but above all its ability to combine this southern Italian-Sicilian ore musicianship of the great Catholic processional "bandas" with modern free-jazz drumming hold everyone in suspense. Everything is in this half-wit to pace - from jam jars to basement club walls of toothbrush cups to breathing patterns.
Over the years, in Cusa's music is a continuity of titles that appear in different versions over again. He played in 1997 with his band 66six the compositions "Where's Stanley Kubrick?", "Buzzati's Capture" but also "psycho Jogging", "Dr. Akagi, "and" nonsense ". All of them were later on concert programs of the different occupied "Skrunch" bands and were included on each CD.
The 2005-he CD "Psicopatologia del serial killer" presents these titles in rough, wild interpretations - and ends with the sound piece "Beyond Gods and Devils ... the day before ..."( East of gods and devils ... ...), the day before that - the patience of the listener over with enervating prolonged silence - to announce a horror seems. Instead
follow but with the CDs "A Sicilian Way of Cooking Mind" (2006, Cusa's project "Naked Musicians") and "L'arte della guerra" (2007, Cusa with Skrunch) two published works under his own name, by the provocative and symbolic way much more in a sophisticated, jazzy direction to go, and - providing improvised soundscapes as well as fragmented and abstracted processional Banda horns, partly linked to mad Latino drum passages - in the case of the "Naked Musicians", the title "A Night in a Caravan" (a combination of "A Night in Tunisia" and "Caravan") has a dazzling charm.
And when the Jazz Club New tonne during the late summer of 2009 was looking for a musician who could develop for the Jazz Festival worlds "fragilitas" 2010, a special music on "rampage" was soon clear: First, to Francesco Cusa be asked.
This concert will take place now - 27 March as the end of 2010 he Jazz Festival worlds. To publish
all his ideas to be able to operate Francesco Cusa the CD label " Improvvisatore Involontario . But it is not only his own but also works from the circle of friendly musicians appeared (Cusa sometimes as a sideman).
Mathias Bäumel
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