François Wong & Davide Barbarino: Genius Loci

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In Roman religion, the genius loci is the guardian of a place – like the Greek daimon, a low-level divinity, here given the task of presiding over a given site. More figuratively, the genius loci is the spirit of a place, its ineffable embodiment and consequently the source of its particular meaning. A meaning that is always grounded, literally, in the particular, the local, the concrete here of the here and now. For saxophonists François Wong and Davide Barbarino the place in question