Luminary

Andrea Melani (drums), Riccardo Grosso (double bass), Tonino Miano (piano, synths, composition).

Luminary  (light giving body, celestial object) is my most recent trio project for which I have the pleasure to be working with two great and versatile musicians. The project is an exploration into an organic approach to improvisation that flirts with non-acoustic sounds often used  in a kind of symbiosis with the acoustic instruments. We think of three parallel paths that are independent in principle but communicating at a distance. Sounds permeate the fabric of the trio' space as an inherent part of the same world without any of the individual components of it necessarily sharing the same exact spot at any given moment. The music is open, multi-stylistic  and unattached to a particular idiom though one could certainly place it within the margins of "modern jazz".  

"[...] Miano si appropria dello spazio fisico e mentale e lo popola di suggestioni che solo in quell’esclusivo momento si possono cogliere. Non si parla più di interazione, di interplay, ma di 3 flussi continui, ogni emissione proviene dal singolo musicista che lo svolge nell’immediato, attraendo le suggestioni degli altri. Si può cogliere una forma precisa, una sorta di scrittura interiore (Kiss a Comet) una serie di idee, di piccole cellule nella mente di ogni musicista che successivamente trovano la loro elaborazione e realizzazione nell’estemporaneità di un atto creativo immediato". Nicola Barin, Percorsi Musicali. https://www.percorsimusicali.eu/2024/09/29/tonino-miano-trio-luminary/

"Throughout Luminary, Tonino Miano often takes chances and stretches out while somehow making the music very melodic and pretty at the same time. Riccardo Grosso and Andrea Melani give him the kind of exquisite support that only amplifies that prettiness." V. Aaron, Something Else! https://somethingelsereviews.com/2024/10/04/tonino-miano-trio-luminary-2024/

Recorded at Studiotape, Catania (Italy)  August 2022. Recording engineer: Franz Minuta