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(2015 VISAGE MUSIC/MATERIALI SONORI VM3010)
Daniele Di Bonaventura - Bandoneon, Didier François - Viola d'amore a chiavi, Nazanin Piri - Flute, Carlo La Manna - Bass, Elias Nardi - Oud.

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“Flowers of Fragility” is an illustrating example of the jazz fusion style that can be found on the album Flowers of Fragility (2015) by the Elias Nardi Group.

“4 stars out of 5” on JAZZTHETIK Magazine (DE)

"About the previous "The tarot album" of Elias Nardi Group I was pretty positive.This is not different for Flowers of Fragility[...] here Nardi combines three key instruments from three different continents[...]of course, the characteristics are recognizable, but even more than on the previous album this extremely coherent group[...] creates its own unique sound[...]and as icing on the cake the sound of the Oud[...]You miss it when you know what you've heard. And that is pure class."
New Folk Sounds (NL)


"[...]musica intensa, commossa e timbrcamente sorprendente[...]una combinazione efficace e per nulla 'esotistica'." 4/5.
il Manifesto/Alias (IT)

"La grandezza dell'ensemble di Elias Nardi è quella di creare una musica assolutamente contemporanea pur con strumenti di origini antiche(...) "ponte tra culture"(...) con un linguaggio contemporaneo, che concilia musica araba ed europea, fino addirittura al jazz, e supera la mera rievocazione storica(...)"Flowers of Fragility" sembra raccontarci l'assurdità della guerra, massimo esempio di scontro tra culture. Elias Nardi oltre a raccontare sembra volerci dare anche la soluzione. Ondarock. (IT)

“Album della settimana”
Marzo 2016 Fahrenheit - Rai Radio Tre (IT)


"Flowers Of Fragility è un manifesto di legami strumentali[...]un album forte, armonicamente più compatto ma che non manca di sperimentazione pura ed approfondita ricerca sonora[...], i legami strumentali sono in questo lavoro il manifesto musicale di un artista unico." OTTIMO 5/6. -
F.O.F. su Psycanprog (IT)

"The italian quintet has a Sound. They are masters of refined sounds, they paint sounds."
Folkmagazine (DE)


"This work is inspired by the idea and the art of Belgian painter Pol Bonduelle, a great friend of us with whom we have an important artistic collaboration since many years. Those who also own my previous CDs or LPs will immediately notice that covers and artworks were created by him.
In autumn 2014 during our tour in West Flanders, first inputs and ideas were born giving us the new albums' direction.

In occasion of the historical 100th anniversary of First World War, we had been invited by Pol to visit some of the huge war cemeteries lying in this region, well known for being one of the biggest battlefront of the Great War.

Nowadays this place is a public memorial of silence and beauty. Freshly mowed grass and little fragile flowers bright up thousand of graves.

Flowers of Fragility is a dedication to the souls of those very young soldiers, coming from every corner of the world, who had lost their childhood before losing their own lives.

A hundred years after, it was important for us to draw attention to this historical anniversary. This music derives from the meeting of 5 artists with different origins and musical backgrounds, that and creates a bridge between cultures and genres.”