*2025 stock* Situations is one of WE INSIST! Records’ most recent productions. It is an immersion in the solo clarinet by Giancarlo “nino” Locatelli, an expert well-versed in the music of Steve Lacy, who has captured the essence of the great American saxophonist’s music through a series of interpretations of his compositions.

The Officine Saffi gallery in Milan opens its doors to a new initiative combining Art and Music. On the evening of the inauguration, Giancarlo “nino” Locatelli presented the project by performing some of the album’s tracks in the rooms of the Officine Saffi. The musical performance was accompanied by all of the project’s elements. The author of the photographs displayed in Officine Saffi, which also form part of the situations box set, is Roberto Masotti, one of the great photographers who have “visually” documented the music of Steve Lacy and many other artists. There is a video made specifically for the event by Pietro Bologna and the photographs taken during the recording of the “US” box set, number one of the WE INSIST! Records? catalogue.

Lacy’s tunes are devised with a rigorous affection, they engage instantly and seem ever unique, but their challenge is not for the faint of heart. Each piece frames an opening to inquiry and experiment, to meditation and humor; to scope out the furthest parameters of sound. We get all this and more in Nino’s performances, which also attests to the quality of the material. - Jason Weiss

“In bass clarinetist Nino Locatelli’s hands, Lacy’s music is there to be broken, busted open, in order to be explored more fully. ”  John Corbett