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And Twilight Town proves there’s a good deal of virtuosity possible with it. The young Italian experimentalist bass player really explores the possibilities for the stick, electric and silicon bass, as well as combining it with some familiar, traditionally beautiful sounds such as the flute, with often atonal jarring electronic noise.

This is his first solo album, although he has been seen supporting artists such as Vladimir Denissenkov, Guo Yue, Ayub Ogada, Adel Salameh and Naziha Azzouz.

The scratches and fascinating rhythms of ‘Hammers upon the coal mine’ are vastly pretentious, as the Vaiesque guitars plough the outer reaches of the prog-jazz spectrum, but it’s an album of extremes, and the highs are worth bearing with the experimental and introspective elements.

Flautist Guo Yue provides some of the album’s highlights, on ‘Little dances for a Siamese cat’, which is a gem in itself and really provides a foil for Ponzini in his deceptively simple style.

Links:
Guido Ponzini’s MySpace