专辑简介

Mondongo is a traditional soup from South America made with tripe, root vegetables, and pork hocks. The music is on this album is also a mixture of hearty ingredients. It is a moving blend of jazz featuring elaborate melodies that play between the instruments in a baroque style. The rhythm is often quite agressive, with bass and drums pumping a sort of hip hop-funk/alt rock groove. There are also dashes of more open improvisation that allow the music to breath before once again re-establishing its assertive force. The music is a launching pad for the saxophone, which is featured twice in the roster, and the compositions themselves pay homage to John Coltrane, Wayne Shorter, and Steve Coleman.

The band features Francesco Bigoni on tenor sax, Piero Bittolo Bon on alto sax, Giacomo Papetti on electric bass, and Andre Arraiz-Rivas on drums. All compositions are by André Michel Arraiz-Rivas.