Federica Michisanti, bassist and composer, winner of Top Jazz 2018 as Best New Talent, Top Jazz 2020 with her project “Horn Trio” as Best Italian Ensemble of the Year and Siae Award 2019, has distinguished herself in the Italian jazz scene in recent years with her various projects. His fifth album, the second produced by Parco della Musica Records, titled “Afternoons,“ is out Sept. 29. The lineup consists of three of the most active and recognized musicians on the European music scene: Louis Sclavis on clarinets, who has been collaborating with Federica on her projects for a few years now; Vincent Courtois on cello; and Michele Rabbia on drums and electronics.

The album includes seven tracks, all signed by Michisanti, two of them (“Nocturne” and “Spot”) united by a free improvisation that from the coda of the first, more lyrical and evocative piece leads them to the next, more rhythmic and frenetic one.The compositions display sonorities that draw from European cultured music and the jazz avant-garde and are varied in nature: sometimes they are stolen themes that result in free improvisations, as in “Two,” or more structured improvisations, as in “Not.” sometimes they are melodies that rest on a repetitive bass line, as in “Sufi Loft,” or they are melodic lines that intertwine to form an ever-changing harmony, as in “Floathing” (hence the pun indicating something that floats in constant motion) or compositions that feature more open passages that then land on a structured rhythm that then leads to a change of tempo until the improvised part, as in “Be4 PM.”