Two For The Road - Chiara Pastò Francesco Pollon

On Two for the Road, singer Chiara Pastò and pianist Francesco Pollon explore nine pieces with the freedom of a jazz duo. The programme ranges from 'Round Midnight and Close Your Eyes to the Henry Mancini song that gives the album its title. Alongside jazz standards, there is Astor Piazzolla's Libertango with new lyrics by Pastò, and Just a Smile, written by Enrico Santacatterina and Chiara Pastò and reinterpreted here for voice and piano. The conversation between vocal phrasing and the piano shapes the record, captured live in the studio in 2023.

Available editions

• 180 g, 33 rpm LP — Velut Luna CVLD363A.
• CD — Velut Luna CVLD363B.
• Hi-Res file 88.2 kHz / 24 bit — Velut Luna CVLD363.

Tracklist

1. Libertango — 1:54 (Astor Piazzolla; new lyrics by Chiara Pastò)
2. Two for the Road — 4:18 (Henry Mancini / Leslie Bricusse)
3. Close Your Eyes — 3:31 (Bernice Petkere)
4. 'Round Midnight — 6:11 (Thelonious Monk / Bernie Hanighen)
5. Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered — 3:24 (Richard Rodgers / Lorenz Hart)
6. When Lights Are Low — 2:46 (Benny Carter / Spencer Williams)
7. Just a Smile — 4:03 (Enrico Santacatterina / Chiara Pastò)
8. They Can't Take That Away from Me — 3:45 (George Gershwin / Ira Gershwin)
9. One Day I'll Fly Away — 4:37 (Joe Sample / Will Jennings)

Musicians

• Chiara Pastò — voice
• Francesco Pollon — piano

Recording and mastering

Original 88.2 kHz / 24-bit digital and analogue recording, performed live in the studio at Magister Recording Area, Preganziol, Italy, on 29 July 2023. Analogue mixing and mastering at MLStudio, Náquera, Spain, on 3 August 2023.

Voice: Neumann U47 FET microphone with Massenburg microphone preamplifier. Piano: Austrian Audio OC818 microphones with Millennia Media preamplifiers. Rupert Neve Designs analogue summing and Maselec analogue mastering outboard were used.

Credits

Production: Marco Lincetto
Musical producers: Marco Lincetto and Andrea Valfrè
Balance recording engineer: Marco Lincetto
Sound engineer: Andrea Valfrè
Mixing and mastering: Marco Lincetto
Photography: Marco Lincetto
Design and layout: L'Image
Label: Velut Luna.

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