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“I am kind of an animal,” says Antonio Farao’, the masterful Milanese pianist whose sophisticated first solo album, Kind of... sounds like the very opposite of rough rooting around. Sweet melodies treated as expansive ideas, extraordinarily well- articulated, are the substance of Farao’s ten performances here, rich with emotional nuance evoked by the refinements of his touch. If this guy’s a beast, he’s one who summons rare beauty…  Howard Mandel (President of the US Jazz Journalist Association)

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Label Notes Around / February 2025

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TRACKLIST

1. There will never be another you (H. Warren)

2. Kind Of… (A. Faraò)

3. O che Sera (C. Buarque)

4. Pina (A. Faraò)

5. Around (A. Faraò)

6. MT (A. Faraò)

7. Ballad for Four (A. Faraò)

8. Round Midnight (T. Monk)

9. Gospello (A. Faraò)

10. I didn’t know what time it was (R. Rodgers)

11. My Blues (A. Faraò)

12. Sulle Nuvole (A. Faraò)