DIAFONIA LEITMOTIV WAVES

International project ZAUSS consists of Italian guitarist Francesco Zago and Swiss saxophone player Markus Stauss, who have collaborated on a number of different projects over the years. Zauss is the name given to the sole project involving just those two, and so far four albums have been released under this moniker. "Diafonia Leitmotiv Waves" is the most recent of those, and was released through Stauss' own label Fazzul Music in 2014.

The creative partnership of Francesco Zago and Markus Stauss continues to explore music at the edge of what many people would describe as music on their fourth production. Avant-garde, challenging and demanding, to the extent of making a good call for being a poster child of those expressions, arguably to be sorted somewhere on the borderlands between avant-garde progressive rock and avant-garde jazz. Those who have a taste for both those types of music strike me as the perfect audience for this specific album, and in particular those who have an affection for the more daring excursions of this type of music.