It was a warm morning in Rome and everything was fine … not for long! The boss of Xbass had given me a really difficult assignment, but everyone knows I am a “bulldozer”! The DVD was delivered to me in an anonymous package by post from Berlin, a cover, surely, an attempt to put me off the track. I open the package, from the cover I could see that this was hot …!! I had to find out more … I closed the blinds for more privacy and started to watch.

“ (...) I don't believe in schools of composition! They (nonetheless) limit our minds that, instead, need room for freedom (...). I believe more in " love at first sight " with the sound experience...”.

Zeno De Rossi is an eclectic drum and percussion player. His biography is filled with activities and includes a number of musical projects. He has been cooperating with some of the most interesting contemporary musicians, such as Vinicio Capossela (with whom he constantly works), Franco D’Andrea, Marc Ribot, Fabrizio Bosso, Gianluca Petrella, Ares Tavolazzi and Otello Savoia (just to mention some double-bass players) and many more.

The cover of this first personal album by Lila Horovitz is guaranteed to be immediately striking. It communicates ancestral and sensual impressions with a blend of concave-convex curves, as a symbol of motherhood and childbirth, in music as it is in life. (...)

When we talk about Fernando Grillo, we can't ignore the evaluation of these concepts. The Maestro's work actually goes beyond the simple vertical/horizontal organization of sounds. He focuses on a deep research of the sounds' internal relationship in their harmonic and sub-harmonic components.(...)

Many know that Bottesini wrote a double bass method. Nevertheless, the circumstances and reasons that led to its creation are not known, nor is the value that this method has nowadays.(...)

After such a long wait – Will it be released or won’t it? Who will produce it? Where could we buy it? etc – finally, here it is - Klaus Stoll’s training DVD, aimed at offering a new approach to the Double Bass teaching method. Though the market already offers DVDs and Videotapes on the Double Bass, such as those by Jeff Bradetich and François Rabbath – this is actually the first time in which a DVD focuses on those passages that make up the bread and butter of any orchestra professional.

Firstly, the Repertoire: Sonata for Cello and Piano No. 1 in E Minor Op.38 by Johannes Brahms. It was composed in 1862-65 and was dedicated to Brahms’ friend Josef Gänsbacher, singing professor at the Vienna Academy...