Santa Plástica

"As sisters, Laura (cello) and Gianna (clarinet) Caronni share an indivisible connection. As musicians, affinity runs as deep, embedded in histories and personages beyond their blood relation. For this album, which comes three years after 2015's Navega Mundos, they expand their musical reach in a program of immense scope and variation ... And indeed, like any great work of cinematic art, Santa Plástica gathers influences from the real world to create its fantastic own, embracing musicians as writers, directors, and actors in the spirit of a living art".

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"Laura and Gianna Caronni, the two Argentinian sisters here, are quite a remarkable little unit of cello, voice, clarinet and bass clarinet (along with a few other instruments and guests). The music is often inspired by classical pieces, from Bach through to the 20th century ... They tend to write for two instruments and voices, so the music is delightfully minimal - yet somehow they manange to fill a massive musical space; it's a majestic sleight of hand. Their fourth album over the course of eight years is every bit as elegant and inventive as those that have gone before ... Piers Faccini, who seems to be almost ubiquitous in European music, adds his voice to "Breathe", while Erik Truffaz brings his trumpet to a few pieces, notably "Tingo", which filters an idea of Charles Ives through something one of the sisters wrote when she was five. Each of the pieces feels like a beautifully crafted miniature, a little piece of art that entices and seduces".