Lorenzo De Finti Qrt - 2025 - Backlash of Uncertainty

(46:22; Losen Records)




















Track list:
1. Backlash of Uncertainty 8:10
2. The Other Route That Wasn't There 8:20
3. Nine Bridges in Königsberg 9:15
4. Temporary Shunt 8:34
5. Occam's Razor 12:03

Line-up:
Lorenzo De Finti - piano
Alberto Mandarini - trumpet, flugelhorn
Stefano Dall´Ora - bass
Marco Castiglioni - drums 


Italian artist Lorenzo De Finti has been releasing albums at a steady pace ever since his first album "Colors of Life" appeared back in 2013, and to date he has six albums to his name, four of which has been released under the band moniker Lorenzo De Finti Qrt. The most recent of these, "Backlash of Uncertainty", was issued in the late fall of 2025 through the Norwegian label Losen Records.

Instrumental jazz is the name of the game for the landscapes explored on this production, and it is an inviting and generally appealing universe we are taken into on this occasion. De Finti's piano, rather unsurprisingly, does have a central position in these compositions. Operating as the dominant melodic foundation for everything else to be built upon. The trumpet and the flugelhorn supplies delicate and atmospheric laden overlays in a careful and delicate manner, while the rhythm sections alternates between being a steady support, suppliers of groove elements and instigators and driving forces whenever a composition takes a side step into more expressive territories.

That duality is probably the most defining trait of this production as a whole, as there will just about always be one or more passages where the instrumentalists get to showcase a more expressive and challenging output here. Without ever exploring  those sentiments too much or too deep, but making them a presence and a part of a greater totality. 

These are finely flowing compositions, often with a bit of an ebb and flow dynamic in operation, and the material strikes me as being fairly sophisticated in terms of composition as well as execution. Music that may well be far more challenging to perform than what many listeners will ever quite manage to grasp. At least as I experience the landscapes explored on this album.

If you enjoy a flowing, elegant and sophisticated variety of melodic and atmospheric laden instrumental jazz, and you appreciate that the musicians find space and room to also include more expressive and challenging displays in creations of this kind, then chances should be high for you to find this album to be quite the rewarding experience.

Olav M. Björnsen, March 2026

Links:
https://lorenzodefinti.com/
https://losenrecords.no/

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