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WALTER GAETA – DIVE IN BIANCO E NERO
Walter Gaeta, records on piano only ten tracks dedicated to as many divas, Italian women extraordinary, far from the real state of subordination in which most of them lived, but which equally offered the (perhaps unattainable) model of overcoming traditional roles. Each song bears the name of the diva who inspired Gaeta and above all who gave life to hers compositional imagination. A transversal record between jazz and cultured music, between writing and improvisation. Each track tells the essence of these actresses, exposes an inducing story Gaeta to have no expressive limits. In fact he uses the piano in all its parts: beating the soundboard, inserting rattles on the strings, massively using the damper pedal for create an ethereal sound space, employing horsehair that he has made flow over the strings of the piano he managed to obtain sounds held in the form of a violin. He doesn’t even disdain the use of technologies, in fact we find loops, various effects and the overdubbing technique in some songs. But not he forgets the jazz tradition and inserts two magnificent cameos in Stride piano style. Only diva non-Italian to be included is Pola Negri, Polish actress, singer and dancer who, became a Hollywood a star of the first magnitude, known and admired throughout the world; “Sunrise on the lake still gloomy”, a piece composed so as not to forget all those women who shone in the firmament of civil rights illuminating the path of humanity. From Evita Perón to Indira Gandhi, from Rosa Parks to Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, up to Aung San Suu Kyi and Mahsa Amini, the latter beaten to death by police in Iran and died on 16 September 2022.
