Dedicato alla memoria del mio amico e bassista Mauro Poggi.
Dedicated to the memory of my friend and bass player Mauro Poggi.
"Stack'em high" rappresenta il percorso musicale degli ultimi 10 anni di attività di Max Paparella. Un album che non può essere identificato come appartenente ad uno specifico genere musicale perchè dalla fine degli anni '90 ad oggi le influenze musicali sono state veramente tante. Le sonorità e le ritmiche funk sono comunque molto presenti in diversi brani del disco così come armonie e melodie ispirate al jazz elettronico degli anni '70. Alla realizzazione dell'album hanno partecipato ottimi musicisti e amici come Paolo "Apollo" Negri (Link Quartet, Wicked Minds, Modulo 5) considerato come uno dei più raffinati organisti Hammond al mondo, Simone Stefanini (Nove Vite) chitarrista di grande talento e con il quale ho il piacere di collaborare anche in altri progetti, Marco Bergami sassofonista jazz profondamente ispirato dalla musica del grande John Coltrane e di Michael Brecker. Il disco è già disponibile in formato digitale. Buon ascolto!
"Stack' em high" represents the last 10 years of musical activity of Max Paparella. An album that cannot be pigeonholed as belonging to a specific musical genre because there have been so many musical influences since the end of the '90s. Various tracks are strongly driven by their resonance and rhythmic funk, just as the harmonies and melodies are inspired by the electric jazz of the '70s. The making of the album saw the participation of a number of superb musicians and friends, including Paolo "Apollo" Negri (Link Quartet, Wicked Minds, Modulo 5) considered one of the finest Hammond organ players in the world, the highly talented Simone Stefanini (guitarist of band Nove Vite), with whom I have had the pleasure of working with on other projects, and Marco Bergami, jazz saxophone player, greatly inspired by the music of the great John Coltrane and Michael Brecker.
The album is just available in digital format. Happy listening!
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Paolo “Apollo” Negri is a kind of Italian James Taylor. With his band “Link Quartet” and as a solo artist he has already published various records with the Hammondbeat. And it is now the turn of Max Paparella to make his Hammondbeat debut with the album “Stack ‘Em High”, where Negri plays as guest musician. Max Paparella lives in Bologna, where he ran a recording studio for several years. As well as jazz music, Paparella also produces music for film and TV.
“Stack ‘Em High” sounds without exception like a “modern” production. Throughout the record, where it makes sense, Paparella uses vintage instruments (Yamaha C3, Hammond C3, Fender Rhodes MK1 and MK2, Hohner D6, Wurlitzer or Moog) and combines these with computer drum and bass programmings. And it works very well. For my taste, Paparella goes a little too far in his use of the computer-produced woodwind sounds, which spoils the wonderfully warm, valvular sound of the vintage keyboards somewhat. What we hear on “Stack ‘Em High” is anything but the classic acid jazz Hammond instrumental sound, which groups like the James Taylor Quartet have been producing for twenty years. Instead Paparella seeks to wrap a Hammond/Rhodes/Moog jazz up into a very modern “lounge” production. Mostly it is reminiscent of the 1990 JTQ album “Do Your Own Thing”, where Taylor chose a similar path.
“Stack ‘Em High” shows us, in times when experts struggle to distinguish whether the Hammond B3 is truly standing in the studio or whether it is a virtual plug-in, that modern and classical production methods can complement each other perfectly. To those who are currently swimming on the retro fashion wave of recording everything in analogue, on 24-track tapes with valvular microphones, let it be said: just as there is only good or bad music, there are only good or bad productions – regardless of the technique used. When all that we hear on an album is a lot of hissing, and the high frequencies are missing, the record has no soul, it just sounds shit.
“Stack ‘Em High” is impressive, both musically and in terms of production, and shows us that time (thankfully) is moving on, and that things can – or rather must – change.
Thomas Berghaus (from “uptown strut” magazine °2 Autumn/Winter 2008)
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