Eyal Maoz, Piero Bittolo Bon, Zeno De Rossi – forced to feel
‘forced to feel’ is an album recorded after the trio of Eyal Maoz, Piero Bittolo Bon and Zeno De Rossi had already tested its chemistry on stage and captures the three musicians at a moment of deepened trust and heightened risk, refining a shared language forged in performance and now pushed further in the studio.
Maoz’s electric guitar unfolds volatile narratives shaped by rock, jazz, electronics, and Middle Eastern Jewish resonances; Bittolo Bon weaves between alto and baritone saxophones, shakuhachi, and electronics with a voice that oscillates between fragile lyricism and eruptive force; De Rossi sculpts the music from within, using drums and bells to bend time through texture, weight, and sudden fractures.
The session took place at La Pila, immersed in the fog-laden, metaphysical countryside of the Veneto plain, where fields dissolve into mist and silence feels suspended, amplifying every gesture and pause. In this brumous, almost otherworldly setting, the trio searches not for fusion but for fleeting coordinates—where songform erodes into noise, restraint meets excess, and listening becomes an act of shared exposure.
Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Giacomo Ferrigato on November 25, 2024, this release for Chant Records preserves improvisation as lived presence: a single, unrepeatable moment hovering between tension and release, instability and quiet celebration.
Tracks:
1. Renato’s Arcade
2. Invoking The Ancestors (Frogs In The Church)
3. Nervous Butterflies
4. Moon Hovering
5. Part Hypnosis
6. Flickering Wings
7. Pull Me Into The Blue Water
Eyal Maoz – electric guitar
Piero Bittolo Bon – alto and baritone sax, shakuhachi, electronics
Zeno De Rossi – drums, bells
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Giacomo Ferrigato at la Pila, Sorgà (VR), Italy
Recorded on November 25, 2024
Artwork by Enrico Terragnoli from the series Exoplanets Covers
Piero Bittolo Bon plays Rampone & Cazzani Italian Handmade Saxophones
All compositions by Eyal Maoz, Piero Bittolo Bon and Zeno De Rossi (ASCAP/SIAE)
Catalog Number:
CR2601EY
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Piero Bittolo Bon – SPELUNKER
