Group name: ClockWork Groove
Alessia Serina Pinto: Soprano and Tenor Sax
Ferdinando D’Urso: Alto and baritone Sax, Piano
Marco Pometti: Guitars
Davide Giovanni Pometti: Double bass and electric bass
Luigi Perticone: Drums
Tracklist:
1 CWG Intro 1:54 (Alessia Serina Pinto, Ferdinando D’Urso, MarcoPometti, Davide Giovanni Pometti, Luigi Perticone)
2 Tempi Disparati 3:34(DavideGiovanni Pometti)
3 Giochi Sonori 7:57 (Davide Giovanni Pometti)
4 The Black White 5:06(Davide Giovanni Pometti)
5 Turbolenze 4:52 (Davide Giovanni Pometti)
6 Ginestra 4:25 Ferdinando D'Urso)
7 Cupìdo 6:38 (Davide Giovanni Pometti)
8 TexasGroove 5:17 (Davide Giovanni Pometti)
9 Il Funambolo 8:19 (Davide Giovanni Pometti)
10 Dave Blues Bass Groove 4:17 (Davide Giovanni Pometti)
Recorded at Sonoria Studio Recordings, Scordia (Sicily, Italy) on November, 8th and 9th, 2013. Sound engineer Salvo Noto Mixed and mastered by ClockWork Groove and Vincenzo Cavalli on January 5th and 12th, 2014 and February, 10th and 11th, 2014 at Sonoria Studio Recordings.
CD 560
Most cohesive of all is the band Clockwork Groove which consists of Alessia Seria Pinto/ts-ss, Ferdinando D’Urso/as-bs-p, Marco Pometti/g, Davide Giovanni Pometti/b and Luigi Pertocone/dr. All of the tubes are cohesive and coherent, filled with warm moments of lyricism. A New Orleanish funky grooves provides cheer on " Dave Blues Bass Groove" while a boogie blues gets rocking with Pometti’s guitar on "Texas Groove." Lovely acoustic guitar floats with baroque reeds on "The Black Waltz" and some plaintive piano flows on "Turbolenze" The two saxes hover like cumulous clouds on "Cupido" and "Ginestra" while some electronic wizardry veers in and out of some of the tunes like a cameo actor. Well played!
by George W. Harris Jazz Weekly, March 19, 2015
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The Clockwork Groove disc (2) similarly tries for balance among multiple elements, but it’s telling different stories. You get this sense from the very start, in a mélange of spacy echo, cymbal washes, digital delay guitar, and vocalic sax lines. It’s a nice mix that aims for musical direct hits in a lot of ways, punchy without compromising an overall sensitivity. Hear it come together on tunes like "Tempi Disparati" and "Turbolenze," where the bassist and the drummer provide a supple, grooving architecture that gives the others loads of room to color (perhaps this general shape of the music owes something to the fact that the bassist composed all but two of these pieces). Many of the solos are processed and this gives the music a sometimes electronic wash that not all listeners may care for (I dug it). And in this general interplay between textural variety and bustling groove, they touch down in a number of different places, from the light semi-tango "Giochi Sonori" (nice soprano and guitar work that’s vaguely insouciant in ways that recall both Breuker and Dato), almost EDM on "Turbolenze, or the crunchy rock of "Texas Groove." And while there’s sometimes something just a bit tame and understated about the playing (you get the sense that it could be outrageous fun in a live, not a studio setting), it’s hard to deny that much of it works quite well, like the galumphing but spacey "Il Funambolo" (which sort of recalls Human Feel) and the Meters-via-Scofield closer. Jason Bivins Cadence Oct 2015. file:///C:/Users/me/Downloads/74-120%20the%20reviews.pdf
CLOCKWORK GROOVE - Waiting for Injection (Slam 560; UK) Italian quintet
Clockwork Groove features Alessia Serina Pianto on soprano & tenor sax,
Ferdinando D'Urso on alto & bari saxes & piano, Marco Pometti on electric &
acoustic guitars, Davide Giovanni Pometti on basses and Luigi Perticone on
drums. Once again Slam provides with another fine Italian band with no well
known names. Mr. D'Urso is the only player here who has appeared on a previous
Slam CD. This is an electric jazz/rock quintet and all but one of the songs were
written by Mr. Pometti, their bassist. What is interesting about this band is
that they sound more refined yet the crafty arrangements are often more complex
than they seem at first. While the bass is often at the center of many of these
tunes, it is saxes and/or guitar who play the quietly quirky arrangements. There
are a few pieces that get close to the better side of fusion with some inventive
guitar and sax work. ClockWork Groove seem to be balancing several different
approaches to electric jazz from the more calm side to the unexpected changes in
direction midstream. Not so easy to pin down. - BLG
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