• Piero Bittolo Bon - Spelunker

    5 days ago - By Free Jazz

    By Guido Montegrandi
    The music on this album is about exploring. It can be described as an extended use of extended techniques to produce an augmented language. The music in this album is about experiencing. Piero Bittolo Bon plays a sax without mouthpieces and most of the time without even blowing into it. As he says in the brief interview at the end of this review he plays in negative extracting sounds from the resonances produced by the movement of the keys inside the body of the instrument. These sounds are then amplified and filtered in real time through stomp-boxes and synths. It is...
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