PS5

Italy

PS5

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PS5 🇮🇹

PS5 is led by Pietro Santangelo who was born, lives and plays in Naples. As a saxophonist and composer, he released five albums with Slivovitz, one with his PS3 trio. He is a former member of Nu Guinea (Nuova Napoli Band) and is involved and engaged in the Italian scene of radical improvisation. Two-and-a-half-years after the release of Unconscious Collective (2021), Pietro Santangelo and his PS5 ensemble returned with the album Echologia (2024). The compositions are inspired by the idea of natural biodiversity as an expression of contamination, coexistence and balance. In the same way as the biological agents contribute to the life of a certain ecosystem, seemingly distant musical languages act as elements of balance in a fertile and blooming musical system. Multiculturalism becomes coexistence. Suggestive saxophone textures intertwine on a solid rhythmic equilibrium and move naturally along an imaginary line highlighting the ancestral connection between Africa and the Mediterranean Sea.