X°MUSA Duo (tenth Muse) is a musical creature conceived by Federico Puppi on Cello & Luca Bertinaria on DoubleBass.
String instruments have always been associated with classical music and its conventional image. With the advent of Jazz and modern music, musical language has deeply changed in every form: harmony evolved, improvisation recovered its primary role inside music and the instruments themselves adapted to this new aesthetic notion. XªMusa Duo is born unifying the elements that characterize jazz, rock and classical music with the use of double bass and cello. Therefore both instruments assume a new function; they get electrified and turn their eyes towards the future, breaking the classical image that used to bind them relentlessly with the past to take them to the future with a new form. The Duo opens its sonority to Jazz, assimilating improvisation as the DNA of music, nourishing from the electric sounds and expressive energy of Rock to generate a personal and groundbreaking style. The pieces created by XªMusa Duo draw routes that fly over ethereal universes, blended colors that cross the edges of genre and space. Innovation annihilates the commonplace and the composition follows modern and original directions.
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