For those unaware, Enzo Favata’s Atlantico quintet explores the musical space where jazz, chamber music dynamics and improvisation meet – never predictable, but with a strong sense of direction grounded in vast musical backgrounds, including the multitude of traditional southern musical dialects that surround them in Southern Italy and around the Mediterranean.

Led by Sardinian saxophonist and clarinettist Enzo Favata, with long-time collaborator Marcello Peghin on guitar, bandoneonist Daniel Di Bonaventura, double bassist Salvatore Maltana and drummer UT Gandhi, on Ritornare – Favata’s first recording for ECM – the group creates a richly colored acoustic sound world shaped by travel, memory and imagination. All About Jazz has said, “in Favata’s world, and like all great groups, the whole is greater than the sum of its parts” – a statement that couldn’t be more appropriate than here.

1. Tukuman [05:36]
2. El Sur [06:51]
3. Escuchame [05:56]
4. Donde nace el viento [05:18]
5. Sine nomine [08:39]
6. Milonga del Sol [06:19]
7. Ventana [04:36]
8. Albatros [06:24]

Recorded in Munich, January 2026 and produced by Manfred Eicher, the new recording opens on the affectingly atmospheric Tukuman and the veritably cinematic in scope El Sur, the willowy fare of Escuchame, the gently joyfully, playful, and yet demure Donde nace el viento, the elegant gossamer of Sine nomine and the quietly free flowing Milonga del Sol, the set rounding out on the rhythmically melodious Ventana, closing on an effortlessly engaging beauty found within Albatros.

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