Birdwatching

Birdwatching

• For her third ECM album, Israeli pianist Anat Fort augments her long-established trio with a special guest: Italian reedman Gianluigi Trovesi

Anat Fort: piano; Gianluigi Trovesi: alto clarinet; Gary Wang; double bass; Roland Schneider: drums <br><br>For her third ECM album, Israeli pianist Anat Fort augments her long-established trio with bassist Gary Wang and drummer Roland Schneider with a special guest: Italian reedman Gianluigi Trovesi. <br><br>Fort and Trovesi have made a number of appearances together in recent years (from Italys Novara Jazz Festival to the Tel-Aviv Opera House), to critical acclaim, and Birdwatching, with its lively bright music, takes their rapport to the next level. <br><br>There is an alert sense of joy in the playing. Of her albums title Anat Fort says, Many of my songs are inspired by movements of things in nature: animals, clouds, winds, water... I didnt know what this record would be called but when I listened to the finished master, I knew it had to do with the movement of birds, and with watching, listening, waiting. It is as much about bird-watching outside as about watching that inner bird, the soul. <br><br>Quartet music is interspersed with improvised solo piano as the story unfolds in a series of vignettes.<br>Birdwatching was recorded at the Auditorio Stelio Molo RSI, Lugano, and produced by Manfred Eicher.