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Ai Confini Tra Sardegna E Jazz 2018 (On the Border between Sardinia and Jazz)
ByThis year, seasoned performers who represent the foundation of the new music movement such as David Murray and Joe McPhee were featured alongside younger groups schooled in the music of today's electronically infused age. And the festival boldly mixed these disparate segments, such as when Joe McPhee played with the experimental group Talibam in an intense set that showed no signs of a generation gap. David Murray, staying true to his roots, spun fascinating improvisations based on many of the compositions of Butch Morris. From the stimulating tentet of Eve Risser's infectious White Desert Orchestra, to Ingebrigt Håker Flaten's powerfully emphatic "The Young Mothers," to perennial favorite Rob Mazurek with his Chicago Underground expanded to Great Britain, to the conduction of an assemblage of 28 musicians from the Cagliari Conservatory of Music, each night offered a different glimpse into the world of inventive music. In addition to the acoustically-friendly amphitheater primary venue, two concerts were held on a Tyrrhenian Sea beach and one in the courtyard of a church built somewhere around 1020 AD. The festival touched base with the history of avant-garde music all the way up to the present interpretations of free expression.
And when not being enamored by the sounds of musical freedom, one is able to lose oneself in the island's cornucopia of delights, including beautiful sun-drenched days, fabulous seaside restaurants, great wine, pristine beaches, and many historic sites dating from antiquity. The island's history reaches back thousands of years before Christ. Its riches have been coveted by many countries claiming ownership over the centuries. But Sardinia today is an autonomously governed region of Italy offering scenic and gastronomic delights to complement this festival's heady dose of inspired music, all served up in a tranquil, stress-devoid environment.
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Rob Mazurek