Al Di Meola World Sinfonia

"Heart of the Immigrants" includes five musical pieces from Astor Piazzola, the outstandingly creative Argentine composer who gave the "tango" the possibility to grow and merge with other musical styles. Di Meola, who had the opportunity to meet Piazzola to exchange musical concepts, friendship and their mutual admiration, manages to expresses the melancholic sentiment of Piazzola's tango. Di Meola evidences that

"Heart of the Immigrants" includes five musical pieces from Astor Piazzola, the outstandingly creative Argentine composer who gave the "tango" the possibility to grow and merge with other musical styles. Di Meola, who had the opportunity to meet Piazzola to exchange musical concepts, friendship and their mutual admiration, manages to expresses the melancholic sentiment of Piazzola's tango. Di Meola evidences that he shares many of Piazzola's motivations that allowed him to transform music standards into a new musical concept. Piazzola's music is very difficult to play and specially cover (listen to the original CD's played by either his quartet or sextet).

The vertigo and movement that Piazzola imposes on his musical scales is unique, however, a virtuoso guitar player like Al Di Meola has the versatility needed to move within Piazzola's musical concepts. In addition to Piazzola's tribute, the CD offers five themes from Di Meola's inspiration, two tunes from Arto Tuncboyacian, who is responsible for percussion and voice, and a cover of the jazz standard "Someday My Prince Will Come" which is offered as a tribute to Miles Davis according to Al Di Meola and Dino Saluzzi who plays the "bandoneon" in this project. The material written by Di Meola is very sentimental and is executed with deep inspiration. The different acoustic guitars used by him and his partner Christopher Carrington, together with the use of bandoneon, percussion, and voices, create a very unique atmosphere that distinguishes this material from any previous work done.

The cover of "Someday My Prince Will Come" sounds more like a tango played by Piazzola than a jazz standard which fits in perfect with the mood and sound of the CD. There are no "circus of speed" acts in this project, although the guitar parts are very rich and carry a challenging degree of difficulty. і Musicians: і і Al Di Meola - guitar і Dino Saluzzi - bandoneon і Arto Tuncboyacian - percussion і Chris Carrington - guitar add Al Di Meola New World Sinfonia , Live in Cluj, Ro. at 02.11.2011 Musicians : Al Di Meola - guitar Fausto Becalossi - accordion Peo Alfonsi - acoustic guitar Peter Kaszas - drums, percussion User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License and may also be available under the GNU FDL..