- Artist: Panaphonic
- Title: Fluid Perspective
- Label: Funky Juice records
- Format: Digital download album
- Cat. Numb.: fu.ju. 012-111
- Release date: Sept -19 – 2025
- Worldwide Distribution: BelieveDigital
- Number of tracks: 1
- File under: Nujazz, Electronic, Avant-garde
Fluid perspective is a dynamic approach that allows the viewpoint to shift and adapt, rather than remain fixed. It manifests itself in the visual arts with works that play on multiple angles or change with the viewer. In design, it indicates solutions adaptable to different uses and scales. In thought, it represents the ability to analyze a topic from multiple angles or to tell stories with varying points of view.
It is the opposite of a static vision, offering a richer and more multifaceted understanding of reality.
The piece “Fluid Perspective” elaborates a dynamic, multi-perspective soundscape, where sounds and melodies flow in a homogeneous musical flow yet rich in diverse nuances and settings, with the dark ebony of the bass clarinet refracting electro-jazz rhythms and rough edges.
The collaboration for the production of this piece was born from the meeting of virtuoso jazz clarinetist and bassist Alberto Popolla and Rob Colella, a producer of electronic music, nujazz, and funk, and owner of the Panaphonic project (created in the early 2000s). From the outset, they felt a mutual respect for each other’s artistic boldness, cementing their intentions in the discovery of belonging and sharing alternative paths and surprisingly similar musical tastes. Thus began an enthusiastic and fruitful collaboration. Alberto’s improvisations fused surprisingly with Rob’s abstract soundscapes, creating avant-garde yet enjoyable music that breaks every traditional mold and opens up contemporary and original sonic paths and explorations, pushing beyond the boundaries of the predictable and ushering in a new sonic era.
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Biography: ALBERTO POPOLLA
Clarinettist, saxophonist, bassist, arranger and composer, he has played in New York, Chicago, London, Berlin, Brussels, Algiers, Lisboa and in many Italian festivals. On electric bass he was a protagonist of the Italian and international neo-psychedelic scene of the 1980s with the band Magic Potion, who relesead two albums produced by the music critic Federico Guglielmi and recently reprinted in a box set. He then has explored the different sounds and the infinite resources of timbre of his clarinets, crossing experimentation and improvisation, writing and conductions, situations more strictly jazz and Balkan music and klezmer.
He has promoted several Italian and European ensembles and collaborated with musicians from all around the world. He graduated Conservatory of Frosinone with a Bachelor’s degree in jazz clarinet and La Sapienza University in Rome with a Bachelor’s degree in Literature, with a plan of historical political studies of modern and contemporary age. He writes regularly for the magazines Prog Italia and Quaderni D’altri Tempi.
In recent years he has dedicated himself passionately to the arrangement and composition to the great blues legacy with the band Roots Magic, voted several times among the ten best Italian groups in the Top Jazz referendum of the monthly magazine Musica Jazz, and to the fascinating sounds of the so-called Canterbury scene and progressive music. In 2025 he released his first solo album, Really The Blues, on the German label Aut Records.With just the ebony of his clarinet, the tapping of his foot, and an array of objects turned into instruments, Popolla reinterprets and rewrites African-American history and its quintessential musical expression: the Blues. The result is an organic and coherent universe, evoking a spiritual intimacy and narrating, through a unique language, the essence of a music still alive and vibrant. He teaches improvisation and jazz history in several music schools.
All tracks published by Surabaya Music publ. (S.I.A.E.)
2025 – (p) & © Surabaya Music publ.
