Double concert with Kalima/Kintopf/Requena Fuentes - Animali Notturni is the new Austro-Italian project of double bassist Marco Stagni. It evokes the spirits of the night, nests in the darkest folds of human nature and oscillates between instinct and ratio, excess and minimalism.

The Italian-Austrian band Animali Notturni around the double bass player Marco Stagni from Bolzano is one of the babies of the particularly extensive and very ambitious encounter project "Euregio Collective", which the South Tyrol Jazz Festival realizes every year as its own production. The intention is to bring together young musicians from the regions of Trentino, South Tyrol and Tyrol across national and linguistic borders - an entity that now perhaps has more the character of an extended family than that of an artistic collective. 

But what kind of music do they make? In the words of a Leipzig-based South Tyrolean, you could say that it's slow jazz rock with tante emozioni. Or even that the musicians are reminiscent of a gang of different animals creeping through a dark alleyway over very smoothly worn stones in the direction of the fish market at four in the morning in a sleepy little Italian town in order to get hold of a fresh sardine.  

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The Italian-Austrian band Animali Notturni around the double bass player Marco Stagni from Bolzano is one of the babies of the particularly extensive and very ambitious encounter project "Euregio Collective", which the South Tyrol Jazz Festival realizes every year as its own production. The intention is to bring together young musicians from the regions of Trentino, South Tyrol and Tyrol across national and linguistic borders - a structure that has perhaps become more like an extended family than an artistic collective. 

But what kind of music do they make? In the words of a South Tyrolean resident in Leipzig, you could say that it's slow jazz rock with tante emozioni ('tante' = Ital. for 'much', not to be confused with 'Tante' = Germ. for 'zia'). Or even that the musicians are reminiscent of a gang of different animals who, at four in the morning in a sleepy little Italian town, creep through a dark alleyway over very smoothly worn stones towards the fish market in order to get hold of a fresh sardine.