Marilena Paradisi & Natalino Marchetti
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Release Date: 02 October 2026
Label: Losen Records
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 7090025833304
Genres: Jazz Vocal Jazz
Description
With her unique artistic journey, recognised by international critics, vocalist Marilena Paradisi brings to Blue Prelude the full depth of her contemporary improvisational vocal exploration, making it her own distinctive stylistic hallmark. On this, her tenth album - the third released by Losen Records - jazz rediscovers its expressive purity, stripped of all artifice.
In a musical dialogue with accordionist Natalino Marchetti, an important figure in contemporary jazz, Marilena Paradisi constructs a sonic universe of rare intensity, where the accordion transfigures into an avant-garde chamber orchestra, capable of generating unusual resonances and almost mystical depths.
In the most fragile pianissimo and the densest fortissimo, the two artists seem to merge into a single improvisational breath. The vocalist traverses the registers with chameleonic versatility, shifting vocal colour and density between an introduction and a theme, while Natalino Marchetti's orchestral accordion continually amplifies her nuances. An infinite instrument, the accordion sometimes disguises itself as a bass clarinet, sometimes as a string section, while the sound of fingers on the keys becomes a rhythmic, percussive caress that envelops the voice.
The choice of repertoire is overwhelmingly beautiful; Jim Van Heusen, Burton Lane, Dizzy Gillespie, Wayne Shorter, Pat Metheny, Gordon Jenkins, Stephen Sondheim, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Horace Silver - compositions by authors with such varied atmospheres seem to communicate with each other, held together by the incredible expressive coherence of the two interpreters.
Recorded, mixed and mastered January 17 & 18 by Clive Simpson at Studio Extra Beat, Rome, Italy.
Produced by Marilena Paradisi & Natalino Marchetti
Tracklisting
Troen - Arnesen Quartet
Karin Nakagawa, Hans Tutzer & Paolino Dalla Port
Haakon Graf, Erik Smith & Per Mathisen
Per Mathisen
EH3
Jan Gunnar Hoff Group
Arne Torvik Trio
Troen/Arnesen Quartet
Marilena Paradisi & Natalino Marchetti
Denise Donatelli
Ella Fitzgerald
Nat King Cole
Billie Holiday
Norma Winstone
Rachel Sutton
Billie Holiday
