Due Mutabili

[…] There is something slightly daunting about the notion of an improvising sextet. Do the casual math of instrumental permutations from six soloists to one sextet, adding in duos, trios, quartets and quintets, and you have something like 55 possible combinations. Literally anything might surface, but among the least likely is the superb music achieved here by Sestetto Internazionale, music that dances between the ideal poles of inevitability and unpredictability, inviting a sense of wonder. Listening to the group, one might at first suspect the possibility of conduction, even detailed scores or extensive planning. Consult a video. They’re not watching each other: they’re just listening and playing, playing and listening, whether coming in or out, building textures or shifting roles as the gestalt seem to invite, and doing so at an exalted level. […]

Stuart Broomer, May 2023 ( excerpt from the liner essay)

[…] “And I personally feel a "sense of position” of each member of the band that can really drive the dramatic and intense moments of the music.

Nice challenge to deal with!

At the end of the concert, the first of that tour, I had the impression, and I told Harri this, that the band got a rare consciousness of the dramatic weights involved in the music and was able to “turn the page” among the different moments of the whole process.

A glance through different transparent sheets, understanding their content is only possible through the exercise of continuous focusing that reveals the coexistence of different narrative planes.

In fact, 'transparency' is one of the key words used in the mixing of the recording.” […]

Gianni Mimmo, May 2023