Paul Wertico’s Drums Without Boundaries – Paul Wertico

Legendary jazz drummer Paul Wertico, together with an international cast of musicians and the Ichos Percussion Quintet, presents an extraordinary album which represents a powerful synthesis of his omnivorous, creative, and highly original poetics. There are no two pieces sounding alike, but, at the same time, the intensity of the musicians’ personality unifies and lends coherence and consistency to the whole album. Labels are almost impossible to find and to define; the pieces smartly elude all attempts at classification. This music is alive, even more than “live”; and, as happens to all living beings, it cannot be analyzed or vivisected. It pulsates, breathes, moves about and seeks its way with the unforeseeable spontaneity of an organism in full possession of its will and ability. It is a music full of curiosity, which reveals the variety, diversity and heterogeneity of its sources of nourishment. Indeed, that living organism is omnivorous; its nurture and culture draw from a multiplicity of stimuli, which include musical genres, sounds, inspirations and features normally considered as reciprocally exclusive.