Giacomo Zanus Wandering Away Is Safer Than Getting Lost On Your Own

Five years after his first quartet release “Kora” (Aut Records, 2021), Giacomo Zanus returns with a new album titled “wandering away is safer than getting lost on your own.”
Composed and produced by the italian guitarist, “wandering away…” is a collection of little stories — postcards and travel notes that evoke faces, places and sensations to immerse oneself in, get lost in and ultimately rediscover.
Emblematic figures such as Calvino’s silent Palomar — almost a manifesto for the entire project — appear alongside real and remembered places, like “return to Maren” (the dialect name for Valmareno, between the provinces of Treviso and Belluno, Zanus’ hometown). There are lived and dreamt memories, as in the diptych “I picked up a flower to say hello” and “but hell..It became a farewell,” as well as cinematic moments recalling the more melancholic atmospheres of Morricone and Ry Cooder in “canto pagano”
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With “Wandering Away…”, Zanus offers his vision of contemporary jazz skillfully infused with folk, post-rock and a soundtrack aesthetic, where the sound of his guitar becomes a voice that guides, narrates and enchants through the wide melodic breath of the compositions.
Supporting him in this interplay between composition and improvisation are Giorgio Pacorig (Fender Rhodes, piano), Mattia Magatelli (double bass and electric bass) and Marco D’Orlando (drums and percussion), among the most brilliant musicians on the Italian jazz scene.