Filippo Cosentino +39 334 78 67 028 www.filippocosentino.com

L’astronauta Filippo Cosentino guitar

Antonio Zambrini piano

Jesper Bodilsen doublebass

Andrea Marcelli drums

Executive production Filippo Cosentino

Production Filippo Cosentino - Andrea Marcelli

ERL / IRD

2015

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the new album from guitarist Filippo Cosentino

Filippo Cosentino +39 334 78 67 028 www.filippocosentino.com

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I am very proud of this production, and I have been very lucky to get the chance of working in studio with three great musicians like Jesper Bodilsen, Andrea Marcelli and Antonio Zambrini. They shared their suggestions with me in order to increase the quality of the sound of the CD. I wrote all the compositions between July and early September 2014 and what you will listen is the result of four amazing days at the Tube Recording Studio in Fara in Sabina, where energy and positive thinking flew into the music to create something great. Even though the compositions are in some way linked to my previous works ("Lanes" and "Human Being"), these songs are a new and important step forward in my way of thinking about jazz composition: the melody is always central in everything I think, as well as sharing melodic and rhythmic ideas with other great musicians like Andrea, Antonio and Jesper. Jazz as I think I draw from my experience both musical life, and so many are the influences of different musical genres. It would have been impossible to find better travel companions for this work; they deeply understood my musical world and, as great tailors, they tactfully sewed me a canvas which I consider to be the most beautiful I drew until now.

Andrea Marcelli writes about the music of Filippo Cosentino:Filippo Cosentino’s musical qualities I mostly admired from the beginning are the “colors” of his acoustic guitars and his open-mindedness towards any new and unexpected element, essential to create real artistic values.His best features are determination and his inclination to develop a positive setting all around him.This was the background of the new album “L’astronauta”, where Filippo showed a growth as a composer. It’s so enjoyable to feel in Filippo’s compositions his interior life flowing through the sounds and modulations. Inner dualism between North and South is solved by the joint of his personal color developed in musical poetics.It is important then to highlight all the various musical genre derived from Jazz which harmoniously follow one another in the CD. This smooth development of different poetics is an interior need of the quartet, not a rational decision but a “jazz conversation” naturally born in the recording studio. Enjoy yourself while listening to “L’astronauta”!

Michael Rosen writes about the music of Filippo Cosentino:

“Filippo is a young and very interesting musician, representing an anomaly in Italian music scene: in contrast to the present “purist” current in Italian jazz, he embarked on a path of his own. His music is at the same time accessible and exotic, and integrates a variety of sounds. The second album shows how he already owns a peculiar identity and, most important thing, a remarkable maturity in thinking, that we’ll continue to greatly appreciate in the next CDs.

! Filippo Cosentino +39 334 78 67 028 www.filippocosentino.com

Filippo Cosentino +39 334 78 67 028 www.filippocosentino.com

! ! Filippo Cosentino is one of the most appreciated italian guitar players and he is considered a new talent of the italian jazz scene (Top Jazz 2014).

Graduate cum laude at Conservatorio G.B.Martini in Bologna under the supervision of M° Tomaso Lama.

He performed on tour and in studio with many famous italian and foreign artists: pop, with Paola Turci, Francesco Tricarico, Mauro Ermanno Giovanardi (at Cantautori d'Italia festival), Alan Bonner, Paolo Toso; blues, with James Thompson, Marco Pandolfi, Nick Beccattini, Giorgio Cavalli; jazz: Javier Girotto, Tom Kirkpatrick, Barend Middelhoff, Don Stapleson, Craig Silberschlag, Michael Rosen, Fabrizio Bosso, Davide Beatino, Danilo Rea, Rita Marcotulli, Jesper Bodilsen, Antonio Zambrini, Andrea Marcelli, Paolo Porta, Nate Birkey.

He also worked for theatre (with the italian actor Andrea Giordana) and cinema: in 2010 he composed the soundtrack of the short movie Praise to loneliness (RaiCinema) directed by Emanuele Caruso. The movie has been selected for the 63° Festival de Cannes and for Trento Film Festival and in 2012 he composed also the soundtrack of the documentary “Meno 100 chili”, an important now in the cinemas, praised at Festival International du Film d'Environment in Paris.

Guitar player appreciated for his versatility, he is often invited to important italian and international festivals: Bologna Jazz Festival, Alba Music Festival, Suoni dalle Colline di Langhe e Roero, Moncalieri Jazz, Acoustic Guitar International Meeting, Fara Music Festival, JAZZIT Fest.

Finalist in the 13rd edition of the International Prize Massimo Urbani. In 2003 he won the national contest of italian review "Chitarre". He is the artistic director of the Festival Cantautori d'Italia for italian songwriters where he has the possibility to play with some of the most important artists of pop scene like Paola Turci, Francesco Tricarico, Mauro Ermanno Giovanardi, Deborah Bontempi (voice of Datura) and others. He is also the artistic director of two jazz festivals, Jazz&Co. and Roero Music Fest.

In 2011 "Lanes", Filippo Cosentino's first soloist cd was published; the italian world- known trumpet player Fabrizio Bosso.

The second album, 2013, called Human Being with Filippo Cosentino Trio and a special guest: Michael Rosen. Human Being has been published for EmmeProduzioniMusicali/ Enrico Moccia's management.

L’astronauta is the last CD produced by Filippo Cosentino with the art director Andrea Marcelli; the CD is published on the 18th of September by Emme Record Label / IRD distribution