Projects
- Walter Beltrami Timoka Quartet
- Walter Beltrami Quintet
- Walter Beltrami Solo
- Walter Beltrami Trio
- Minimal Luggage Extended
- Minimal Luggage
Walter Beltrami Timoka Quartet
Walter Beltrami, guitars
Francesco Bearzatti, sax and clarinet
Roberto Bordiga, double bass and e-bass
Markku Ounaskari, drums
This project was born in 2005 and had its debut at Clusone Jazz Festival 2006, Italy. The music continued to develop during live concerts, reaching a climax with the arrival of eclectic and original saxophonist Francesco Bearzatti in 2008. On April, the group (featuring also talented drummer Emanuele Maniscalco and creative bassist Roberto Bordiga) has recorded the project on a cd which will be released on the first months of 2009. From November 2008 the Quartet achieved its ultimate shape thanks to the arrival of creative and original finnish drummer Markku Ounaskari, a true icon of nordic jazz drumming.
The project is inspired to Swedish film director Ingmar Bergman, unfortunately died recently, and his cinematographic work. The compositions are all written by the guitarist except a re-arrangement of the main melody of Emotions, soundtrack of the renowned movie “Wild Strawberries”. This is not the usual tribute to an artist: Bergman is anywhere in this music but as an indirect influence. The guitarist share with the film director his taste and artistry for details, space, silence and multiple layers of significance. His ability to produce a music which is also visual and ‘viewable’ reminds to the musical iconography of Bergman. Above all, the two artists share lands and landscapes, both real and unreal: places which become the scenography of Bergman’s movies and which Beltrami take and wisely manipulate, turning them into a new and very personal scenophony.