About him
[…] The talented and eclectic musician makes his key idea of sound that "sings" love and yearning and who assumes the dual role of poetry and performance […] a kind of music that follows a journey of feeling sensual persuasive in the classics about the passions Piazzollane […] ripping devilish surprise in ethno-jazz […] perfect in "cavatina" of Figaro and chromatic points of Don Pullen in Cin Cin Weird as in free jazz in Shadow . The journey in the Mediterranean art […] Flap on topics fluid, creative and emotional; compositions steeped in dance soon reveal the nature of dreams told in the notes, which run as an orderly flow in the disorder, motivated and powerful. Strong counterpoint in classical instruments […] wild in favor contamination outside the vessels constricting the rigid gender distinctions; Latin blood that flows into the river, Middle East, which in turn makes waterfall nell'afro-back jazz for the lagoons sweetish Europe […] On a first-class that are likely to emerge between the bellows of the accordion by Marco Lo Russo, the only example of a compositional style that […] is extremely valuable reels and vertigo music from them is hard not to get stuck in the middle sucked. Massimo Sannella – Beat bop a lula – NOVEMBRE 2009
[…] a beautiful example of a fine tuned alchemy between acoustic and electronic. "World Music" stands under the sign of the same exquisite musical aesthetic of Marco La Russo's previous work, yet this time the sound is spiced up with "electro" elements tastefully integrated with the acoustic instruments.[…] The accordion, leading the way, takes the listener into a magical world where anything can happen. Darker ambient sounds alternate with joyful tunes and the perfumes of the Orient, dreams, reality, and fairytales dancing around! The lyric of accordion at its highest expression. Jazzworldquest – dicember 2010
Italian musicians among the new generation, Marco Lo Russo stands out for its features that make it a very original artist representative of the most advanced and updated guidelines of the musical culture of our time […] among its merits is clear commitment to make the accordion, which is estimated expert and virtuoso, an instrument of emerging interest in contemporary music considered in its multiple lexical and aesthetic guidelines […] GIOVANNI CARLI BALLOLA - MAGGIO 2010
We are not struggling with the usual record of tango […] On the contrary, Piazzolliana flair, but often much more oriented to exploring the possibilities of jazz in tango […] seems that Marco Lo Russo has deliberately hidden behind the shadow of the great master of the counterattack then play Argentina for exposing all of its quality […] Wonderful test. Renato Belardinelli - Accordions Worldwide - April 2009
Bind the jazz accordion has always been a gamble or a challenge. For Marco Lo Russo [...] is a shining victory. [...] What more back to the matrix has the unusual ability percussive Afro-American accordionist who gives his instrument, probing deep into the rhythmic possibilities and emerging aesthetic that is a great melange of Arabia, Africa and Europe. [...] Eye attractive to a continuous and further development of the possibilities of meeting between genres far. Augusto Pallocca - February 2009
[…] There is often talk of strange music, outside the usual commercial fees, that sounds intriguing to us and involve us, besides the curiosity is the basis of life itself, and often leads to the discovery of wonderful things […] Needless to any attempt to describe Mediterranean Accordion with the simple words, listen to realize person […] Ipode mania – December 2008
Ichnos is an extremely hard today because […] inspired by the past two professionals, two lovers, two researchers sensitive and consistent walk the streets of ethnic music with reference to the dictates of classical music who has studied it and know it for real […] The violin and the accordion are ideal tools for ever-present transfer emotional and sentimental. Deltadischi – December 2008
Mediterranean Accordion… Live […] a hard tasty, varied, rich in atmosphere, in which the qualities of a leader not struggling to emerge […] A truly singular work, intersection of several stylistic features that deserves close attention. Neri Pollastri – All About Jazz – November 2008
Ichnos […] A different musical proposal, on the border between classical, tango and jazz in which the virtuoso talent of the musician is in the service of class. Luca Cacciatore – Freequency – September 2008
[…] The contamination is the true queen […] if you really can not live without the tango and the intriguing sound of the accordion (which Lo Russo certainly sounds good) well listen Mediterranean Accordion […] Neri Pollastri – All About Jazz – November 2008
The emotional intensity, passionate talk with style and properties of expression, the engaging and gentle insinuation Marco Lo Russo accordion scenarios are proper ethno-jazz CD Mediterranean Accordion […] Marco Lo Russo tournament in consistent with his style, plush and harmonious flow and engaging and lively radiant […] Giordano Selini – jazzItalia Notes – August 2008
"Marco Lo Russo deserves all significant awards acknowledgments which already obtained […] Talent innate or a gift speaking: to able create melodies arriving listener and capture his attention […] ironclad preparation […] but a dowry natural not everyone so so developed […] accordionist gifted and required is also an composer and arranger able create occasions listening extremely stimulants […] becomes appreciate extreme eclecticity its musical proposal multifaceted flavors and colors Mediterranean music and contemporary to references and References to classical world to tango Argentine not ultima, attended of marked influence jazz […] what determines's high quality music is beauty intrinsic "feedstock" ie melodies […] choices timbric of careful research made priori. The final result […] spreading musics engrossing and immersive, musics docile who you leave savor and which damage even the sensation sometimes of letting tap […] Piero Quarta – Prove Aperte – May 2008
Concerto for Accordion alone […] Marco Lo Russo, artist and researcher, it applies its sound muffled and scratchy writing stern and then launch into Bach's variations on Paganini, Rossini, Piazzolla and Bacalov Alfredo Gasponi - Il Messaggero- November 2007
[…] The accordion is the dominant voice […] the songs of Lo Russo is closer to avant garde […] Lo Russo accordion is an instrument of expression and he has a way to release intense melodies with harmonies and articulation of the left hand. Lo Russo also leads to new ways of playing the colored his instrument, taking time together, now out of step with the bass. […] Tarabuk is a surprising and exciting disc […] Robert Iannapollo - Cadence, NY City - July 2007
[…] a mix of rhythm and color that marries on exemplary mode sound enjoyment-expressive and stylistic consistency. Lo Russo's use of the bellows is often touches land exquisitely organ [...] but he knows how to get to the recipient without grounding in melodic backdrops or known. Tarabuk […] a really cd well done, full of charm and depth, instrumental skill, inspiration and good liking. ALBERTO BAZZURRO – MUSICA JAZZ – LUGLIO 2006
