Chiaroscuro is a project that arises from the desire to combine two musical genres which, despite being very distant, share a fundamental characteristic: the “need” to continue to rework a musical idea by improvising on some given matrix.
Starting from this idea of ”Variations on the Theme” and taking a cue from the Renaissance painting technique characterized by the fusion of great contrasts, we thought of creating an encounter-clash of different intentions: acoustic and electronic, written parts alternating with impromptu improvisations, all seasoned with extreme dynamic excursions.
If in painting, as with sculpture and videos, one expresses oneself visually with immediacy, music needs to describe, sounds create atmospheres that will make us have precise sensations and moods, what we witnessed in the Renaissance period is been the flourishing of art and culture to overcome previous dark historical periods and above all to bring more beauty into the existence of human beings, achieving something with the motivation to benefit is the highest point attainable
The masterpieces created by the great masters such as Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, the studies of Galileo Galilei, the works that many of these geniuses have done are a clear example of how important it is to bring beauty into our lives, it becomes nourishment for our minds. and it can be an inspiration for many, we just starting from the Renaissance and its creative force with this motivation we started composing songs to get to find a balance between the atmospheres we had in mind, a whispered beginning that becomes a spring explosion and then lightly praises other verses, overcoming the dichotomous vision to grasp the essence that pervades every phenomenon, being able to have a constant flow where the melody and the solos are like dialectics and debates that harmonize in a constructive dialogue.
Using the words would have been easier to describe but we preferred to concentrate on researching and experimenting with new sounds in the very fertile jazz and giving more life to the versatile electronic music, since everything changes in every moment it is important to be constant change that adapts itself without disregarding your own. origins.
We have dedicated a passage to our hometown, Milan which 500 years ago was one of the cradles of the Renaissance; a place where so much beauty can be built, lived and shared with anyone.
We express our deep gratitude to the genius of Herbie Hancock and Miles Davis who, like the alchemists of the 1500s, explored new paths in music that no one even imagined, stimulating us to seek our new way: your listening will tell if we have succeeded.
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Love is Supreme Art 