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Finally, a long forgotten entry into Rome, Italy’s Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza, arguably the first experimental composers collective featuring famed soundtrack composer, Ennio Morricone, on trumpet, sees its first reissue since it was released in 1973.
Gruppo di Improvvisazione Nuova Consonanza, subtitled Improvvisazioni a Formazioni Variate dei Compositori-esecutori, effectively weaves free jazz and musique concrète into a unified symbiosis. Led by pianist/percussionist Franco Evangelisti, the collective evokes the sparseness of Cecil Taylor, while retaining the noisiness of the ’60s German jazz scene. As the improvised compositions grow and expand, echoes of Penderecki, Xenakis, Albert Ayler’s New York Eye and Ear Control sessions and even electric Miles Davis, if all the instruments were broken, permeate the jagged, desolate soundscape. This is stark territory, a stalagmite-strewn alien desert where heat and sand-storms reign supreme.
It’s truly remarkable that such a fascinating release should go ignored for all these years. Thankfully, it is available again, ready to inspire an entirely new generation of free musicians.
