“Who is Carlo Mombelli After listening to his CD's, the question changes into, Why is a bassist like Carlo Mombelli still more or less unknown.”                              

                                                                                                              - Jazz Time (Frankfurt '91)

“Once in a while an artist comes along who produces music unlike anything you’ve heard, that’s the case with Carlom Mombelli whose playing brings to mind Mick Karn’s - both bassists sometimes sound as if they learnt to play on another planet, one with a different set of harmonic and rhythmic conventions.”

                                                                                    - Bass Player (American bass magazine 1991)

“Carlo Mombelli’s music is that of a quintessential Prisoner of Strange. It’s visionary, emotional and experimental, in a society that doesn’t applaud artistry and integrity. His music sits on the cusp of sanity, where madness and brilliance share space, where true art resides. Mombelli has found in his music the expressive soul of the developing world mixed with the technical profundity of the classical world.”

                                                                                            - The Sunday Independent (June 2001)