Photo: Laurent Orseau

Going (Italy / Belgium / Portugal / France)

(A premiere of new compositions)

Giovanni Di Domenico: Fender Rhodes electric piano, electronica; Pak Yan Lau: synthesizers, Hohner pianet, electronica; João Lobo: drums; Mathieu Calleja: drums.

One of the various groups that include Italian Giovanni Di Domenico and Portuguese João Lobo is the quartet Going, with an unusual format of two keyboard players and two drummers; a project that finds inspiration in North African and Middle Eastern trance music and incorporates into it influences from Can’s krautrock, Steve Reich’s minimalism and John Coltrane’s “sheets of sound” with the clear aim of achieving a time suspension in the listeners’ conditioned perceptual experience. For the musicians, this constitutes a “journey across the star system of contemporary cities” by applying poly-rhythms from both exploratory electronic music and the retro sound lent to jazz by the Fender Rhodes fifty years after Miles Davis’ recording of “Bitches Brew”.