Sound Impression: A Closer Distance by Bruno Bavota & Chantal Acda

Collaborations between artists can be planned, but the kind of sweet serendipity that makes them magical cannot. It either happens or it doesn’t. The idea of Italian pianist & composer Bruno Bavota making an album with Dutch singer & musician Chantal Acda certainly had the potential to be a magical one. Bavota is known for…

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Bruno Bavota – Out of the Blue [Sono Luminus]

One imagines there is no shaking hands with Neapolitan composer Bruno Bavota, just hugs the kind of which shatter pretension and forge a lasting human connection. It is a sense that comes across in his music which is characterized by utterly disarming sincerity and an outpouring of pure unguarded emotion that touches every note of every song.  For…

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Bruno Bavota – Mediterraneo [Dronarivm]

Mediterraneo is the latest full length record from Neopolitan pianist and composer Bruno Bavota. There are many reasons one might assume the theme of the album is the sea – the title, the vibrant blue-green hues of the impressionistic cover art, the location of Naples on a bay that opens into the Mediterranean Sea, and the…

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Travelogue Week 2014-47

Noteworthy highlights from the past week of music discovery, releases, previews, and other news.  Daily updates are available on the Stationary Travels Facebook and Twitter feeds and audio/video links to all tracks featured during the month are available on the Songdrop page. New Releases Belle Arché Lou| Pour détruire le chagrin du monde [ISTI MIRANT STELLA] Belle Arché Lou,…

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Album Review: “The Secret of the Sea” by Bruno Bavota (Psychonavigation Records)

For his third album, “The Secret of the Sea”, composer and musician Bruno Bavota found inspiration in the allure and mystery of the Mediterranean that washes up against the shores of his home town of Naples, Italy.  The lyrical romanticism expressed through the piano on his previous albums, “Il Pozzo D’Amour’ and “La casa sulla…

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