Gianluca Petrella Cosmic Renaissance
Gianluca Petrella (trombone, laptop, moog, efffects), Mirco Rubegni (trumpet), Riccardo Di Vinci (bass guitar), Federico Scettri (drums, laptop), Simone Padovani (percussion)
What word other than “vast” can possibly describe the career of Italian trombonist Gianluca Petrella? From his first steps in the mid-90s, to leading his own bands in the early 2000s, to releasing records with iconic labels like ECM, Ninja Tune and Blue Note, Petrella has worked with legends like Nicola Conte, Carla Bley and Enrico Rava and just as easily collaborated with non-jazz artists like Ricardo Villalobos and Moritz von Oswald, descending deep into the underground world of techno and club music in constant search of universality beyond form. The intergalactic, afrofuturistic legacy of Sun Ra inspires and guides Petrella’s Cosmic Renaissance project like a compass that points without fail to the north star of radical cosmic freedom and unrestricted nu soulful jazz. Get ready for some expansive grooves that transcend boundaries and abolish borders.