Enzo Caterino - Enzo Caterino: Youth (2019)

YOUTH is an album featuring a collection of memories, pictures and moods that have to be shared. It was relevant for me to find the right combination of colours and certain chemistry in the sound. I wanted a warm, silky, melodic, and powerful sound. Therefore, I went for the cello and double-bass, but what I had in mind was not a classic, canonical bass sound. That was how I decided to involve Orazio in this project. Orazio can play the double-bass and obtain a characteristic and cello-like sound; he has a unique way of playing this amazing instrument, which inspired lots of material on this album. The result is fascinating because the cello and the double-bass merge entirely into a deeply homogeneous sound so that sometimes it is difficult to distinguish who plays what. YOUTH is also a story of a friendship glued due to unforgettable moments shared at the time we were both students at Naples Conservatory. This process of composing music for us inspired me more, so “Herbarium” and “Carveriana” were created. The first, originally written for a cello solo, was inspired by a wonderful day I spent at the Botanical Gardens in London. “Carveriana” comes from my big passion for the great American poet Raymond Carver, whose short-story-style influenced deeply the structure of all the works performed on this album.