Linpha (2011)

It is too easily spoken of the fusion of most disparate musical genres, in this case though the term has an absolute value. The music of Costantini is inspired by everything that is sound, rhythm, without dwelling upon the suggested stile. You hear it all: classic music of the Russian 19th century, the French impressionists, Pink Floyd's psychodelics or the recent Radiohead, African rhythms just like Brasilian or Mediterranian ones. They all give the impulse of the vital beat, the lymph.

Linpha (Warner Chappel Music Italiana/Halidon/Delexy Records) is a recording of piano only – but yet again a project hard to categorize. Surely it goes beyond what one might call New Classic. The pianist and composer Alessandro Costantini wrote almost all titles. He moves in a wide range from obstinate percussive rhythms to harmonies somehow impressionistic, to finally arrive at the acclaimed soundtrack of the 1972 TV-series Pinocchio by Luigi Comencini. True jewels are the two main themes of Pinocchio. Written by Fiorenzo Carpi and here transcribed, arranged and admirably interpreted by Alessandro Costantini, with this paying tribute to the music which accompanied him since his childhood. Linpha is an album for those who want to listen to a piano with all its potential expressiveness going along with with good taste and creativity.