Very good solo record by Fabio Rigamonti, an excellent Italian bass
player that in the past worked among others with members of Edgar
Allan Poe, Pholas Dactylus, De De Lind, and Area. From 2010 he is a
member of the reunited Alphataurus.
According to Fabio “The title “ROOMS” has two meanings. One is due to
the fact that we have recorded this album playing in five separate
rooms, including the studio corridor !…where the musician were not
able to see each other, except those cases where two musicians were in
the same room. It was a sort of challenge, if you think that most of
the music you can listen here is improvised music.
The other meaning is about the “genre” of music we have played. People
are used to divide and call music in different genres, such as jazz,
rock, funk, classical etc…but I believe that there are only two
“genres” : the bad one and the good one!and just try not to play the
bad one!For this reason I have called a bunch of good friends, from
Italy, Hungary and USA…and simply asked them to come to the studio
just bringing their own instruments and their…music. Some of them
came with classical into their “music luggage”, some with jazz, with
rock, fusion, folk, ambient,…but nobody was aware of what we will
have actually played together !…nobody had scores of my music before
getting the studio, some of them met for the first time in the studio,
and became friends there.” A nice and intriguing effort, mainly
instrumental.