Marshall/Ravalico
“The combination of tuba and congas would seem to most people less like a musical combination that would actually work and more like an experiment in staging, but in the hands of master musicians Oren Marshall and Maurizio Ravalico it takes on another dimension entirely. It’s a bit like one of those revelations, say when you hear electric guitar and kazoo or steel drums and harp; it’s something you’d never have expected to succeed, but once you’ve heard it, it completely changes your perception of the instruments concerned. The great orchestrators of 20th century music such as Bartok, Messiaen and Nunes were intrigued by exactly these types of combinations, which have since been termed “meta-instruments” as a result of the fact that, once combined, the timbres of both were so much more evocative that the possibilities presented by either alone. Could this be the start of another radical new evolution in our orchestral language ?”
To hear some of what Oren and Maurizio have been up to,visit www.maurizioravalico.com