Tomat Petrella Kepler

Sometimes magic happens. Sometimes, emotions enwrap
you in a way you’ve rarely experienced before. Sometimes,
it’s just a matter of freedom: the freedom to create, improvise,
process, and re-process, without specific references, deadlines,
or obligations to please whatever markets or audiences
with clear-cut styles and sound signatures.
Actually, this Tomat Petrella affair is quite unexpected. It’s a
game of two: Turin-based Davide Tomat, who has over twenty
years experience as a multi-instrumentalist, band leader, and
sound designer in several Italian projects (Niagara,
N.A.M.B., and founder of the Superbudda collective); and
musician Gianluca Petrella, hailing from southern Italy but in
fact a citizen of the world and - more importantly - one of the
most revered and inventive jazz trombone players in the
world from the last decade or so (as stated on several Down
Beat Critics’ Polls and proven on his Blue Note and ECM
releases).
“Kepler”, their collaborative effort, is a beast of a different
nature. It has so many textures, intuitions, and complexities
that you can hardly list this simply as a “jazz-meetselectronica”
project.
So much cheesy, well-educated, nicely predictable music
has been produced under that moniker, but so far none of
them have had “it”.