Dorota Konczewska: voice

Filippo Fanó: piano

Alessandro Paternesi: drums

Joe O’Callaghan: guitar

Peter Hanagan: double bass

Giuseppe Torre: electronics

Brief Description: The project revisited and rearranged famous songs from the repertoire of legendary singer Nina Simone. The sextet was made of irish nationals and international jazz players. Some of the players are today enjoying a great artistic career and one of them, Paternesi, is considered to be one of the most talented young drummers in Italy and Europe. Playing with this band was a highly valuable experience.Technical Description: Jazz quintet project with the addition of electronics. In contrast with much of the relevant literature where the electronics are designed as support and guide to the other performers (i.e. background track), the electronics are designed to be the sixth instrument with solos and scored parts. Thus, the attention focused on the range of acoustic frequencies not covered by the other instruments (i.e. extremely low or extremely high) and used glitch type of acoustic sources.