INVISIBLE PAINTERS
Ferdinando Romano - doublebass, synth, samples, modular synthetizers, field recordings
Valentin Gerhardus - piano, synthesizers, Live Sampling
Federico Calcagno - clarinet, bass clarinet
Evita Polidoro - drums
Invisible Painters is a distinctive blend of jazz, electronics, experimentation and melody that seeks to push genre boundaries to explore new territories: double bass, piano, drums and bass clarinet blend their timbres with synthesisers, samples and ambient recordings, mixing digital sounds and a love of analogue timbers
Nominated in the Cathegories
Best Italian Album
Best Italian Band
Musica Jazz’s Critics Poll - Top Jazz 2023
““A fantastic album, pulsating and alive, with a sincere international vocation” ”
““..the music is captivating, both from the intellectual and the emotional point of views””
““There is plenty of inventiveness. Romano’s sound in places is reminiscent of what Michel Benita can bring to the table, ergo: a lot. Ideas spill out all over so generously.””
““This music effectively combines the strong and very personal imprint of Romano’s creativity with excellent group interaction. There is someone who still believes that one can try to write the invisible with notes, and this is certainly very good news.” ”
““Invisible Painters reveals an alluring depth of imagination and virtuosity from Ferdinando Romano and his fellow musicians. The recording techniques used are fascinating, and the resulting album revels in wonderful originality. An album well worth checking out, by an assured artist with a very bright future ahead of him.”
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““High cleverness in the
writing and an extraordinarily
expanded sound palette. Romano
makes extensive use of counterpoint
and works with several overlapping
lines that are both melodically and
and rhythmically exciting” ”
Gallery
“The image of the invisible painters symbolically represents the gesture of artistic creation, the unconscious and instinctive impulse it generates, the invisible hand and brush with which the improviser creates extemporaneously.”