Giant Moon — 30° Anniversary | Salvagnini Quartet

Giant Moon — 30° Anniversary brings together Massimo Salvagnini on tenor saxophone, Sandro Gibellini on guitar, Giorgio Panagin on double bass and Roberto Facchinetti on drums. Eight moon-inspired pieces pair Salvagnini’s compositions with standards including Moonglow and Moonlight in Vermont.

Formats and editions

• CD — CVLD390CD: 30° Anniversary edition.
• Hi-Res WAV file — CVLD390: 88.2 kHz · 24 bit.

Musicians

Massimo Salvagnini — tenor saxophone
Sandro Gibellini — guitar
Giorgio Panagin — double bass
Roberto Facchinetti — drums

Track listing

1. Giant Moon — Massimo Salvagnini · 7:16
2. Moonglow — Will Hudson, Irving Mills · 7:49
3. Moonlight in Vermont — John Blackburn, Karl Suessdorf · 4:25
4. Tintarella di luna — Franco Migliacci, Bruno De Filippi · 5:50
5. Moonlight Serenade — Mitchell Parish, Glenn Miller · 5:15
6. The Sunny Side of the Moon — Massimo Salvagnini · 5:18
7. Donata Walks on the Moon — Massimo Salvagnini · 6:13
8. Destination Moon — Roy Alfred · 6:55

Stated CD playing time: 49:03.

Recording and production

Originally recorded at 88.2 kHz · 24 bit on 20 February 2010 at Magister Recording Area, Preganziol, Italy.

Production, recording, mix, mastering and photography: Marco Lincetto for Velut Luna.
Design and layout: L’Image.

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Notes by Radu Lidjienko

When my friend Marco Lincetto sent me this music so that I could write something about it, my thoughts took an apparently simple, reductive turn, based on quantities.

How many fine CDs has Marco produced? How many are connected with Massimo Salvagnini? For how many have I written an introduction? The next step, given my age, was to ask myself ‘how much longer’? How many more CDs will I be able to comment on? How many more fine CDs will Marco produce? And how much more music will Salvagnini record?

Moving along the timeline makes it easy to see that the value of our actions, and even our intentions, depends on the perspective from which we undertook them. The first CD is different from the last.

We would like to remain forever within an endless perspective, but eventually we understand that history will continue without us, and that perhaps someone with time to spare will put our lives in an order that we ourselves could never achieve.

The wonderful thing about these reflections, while listening to the pieces on this CD, is that only at the end did I realise that human beings have always asked such questions while looking at the Moon, knowing that the great sphere circling us will continue long after the murmur of our lives has ended. Somehow I found precisely this state of mind in the music—or rather, a true feeling.

Radu Lidjienko
London, 2014

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