McDonas / Ricci

Sono contento di stare qua

Label: Edgetone Records Country: USA

Incredibly intense to sensitive and expansive, the improvising duo of McDonas and Ricci use their incredible technical skills in a vivid and unusual conversation.

"This album was recorded on the 16th of December, 2005 in an old cold stone house in the tuscan hills outside of Florence. It was a meeting of a couple of hours between Edoardo Ricci and Thollem Mcdonas. Edoardo is a highly regarded long time improvisor in Italy who has up to now not been fully introduced in the states.

In this great old cold house was a great old beatup rickety wild intoned piano. Thollem loves wild pianos because with the encouragement of natural forces they have rebelled against the expectations of western human ears."-Edgetone Records

"The sublimation of the two instrumental characters is almost perfect, making for a vivid conversation that often borders on the row, but always with reciprocal patience and an ongoing will to listen carefully to what the other has to say."- Massimo Ricci, Touching Extremes