The Undecided

After exploring the roots and lights of the Renaissance in “Chiaroscuro,” the second chapter of the trilogy created with Maestro Davide Logiri took us into less defined, more psychological, and, in some ways, more naked territory: “The Undecided.”
If the first album celebrated opposites and perspectives, this work stems from a question each of us experiences and confronts in our lives: what happens when the direction is unclear and doubt arises over what to choose as a guide or path?
From here, the unraveling of the skein begins. In “The Undecided,” composition has become an act of continuous confrontation. As with the previous album, there was no pretense of arriving in the studio with absolute truths. On the contrary, despite coming from different genres, the encounter between Davide’s acoustic piano and my electronic architecture was a continuous unfolding of pieces that emerged note after note, melody after melody, and digital incursion after incursion. Working remotely, we greatly enhanced our musical affinity, which has an uncommon spontaneity.
Each piece is the account of this process. It’s an open dialectic, where every sound moves. Our intent is to explore questions: about whether and how to respond, about choosing which reasoning to delve with and take one path rather than another. We let uncertainty be part of the very structure of the album: the pauses, dynamic variations, and improvisations are not mere embellishments, but rather the attempt to resolve, or sometimes simply inhabit, that tangle of possibilities that jazz and electronic music can offer when they meet without masks.
We are accustomed to thinking of indecision as a limitation. In this album, however, we considered it a space of great freedom. We took inspiration from the lesson of suspending judgment, where error does not exist, because every deviation from the expected path becomes a new opportunity for discovery, and sometimes for greater fulfillment.
In an era that demands that we always be high-performing and confident, this album aims to be a tribute to reflective fragility. We hope these songs can help us see doubt not as a fog blocking the path, but as the possibility of creating new opportunities, especially those we hadn’t considered as a way to build and find new solutions.
Because sometimes, it’s precisely from doubts that ideas no one imagined can arise.

Chiaroscuro

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.

https://open.spotify.com/album/3ZlQLenCEoHE0BIbTVTSgk?si=sluHUsiFTqyOt7JgPNGqqg

Fun Loving Musician

This record has its roots in the groove of the 60s when jazz inspired the desire to revolutionize the world and a new musical mood was born to be the soundtrack that would accompany those desires for change, in addition to the intellectual and theoretical part there was also and above all that push from below of people who wanted to be able to choose how to live, intending to ensure that equality and equanimity were the fundamental values ​​of the human community.

This new musical mood was the desire to experiment other ways even in unconventional ways and great African American musicians took part, among which it is important to mention Stanely Turrentine, Grant Green, Reuben Wilson, Lou Donaldson, John Patton, they were the forerunners of what in the years to come it became hip hop (looping a short musical phrase) and acid jazz.

It was and listening to it is still a joyful music, which could be playful and at other times very sensual, where the musicians played using the jazz interplay starting from a theme and developing it through solos and then returning all together to celebrate the theme, music by crystalline beauty and quality

What I tried to do, bringing that mood to the present day, was to compare it with the current times, add some electronic sounds and bring the synths as new instruments that have a lot to say in terms of expressiveness, in addition to the drums I have inserted. of the samples, the rhythm that accompanies and supports these songs moves between swing, big band and hip hop, the melodies are immediate like a shot arrow that goes straight to the center and I deliberately unleashed the imagination to draw enveloping spirals, now I wish you could enjoy this embrace.

https://open.spotify.com/album/3PvIaUHe0WmRdgVAsPP4Dm

Is this ElectRocknic or Funktastic?

In the continuous research and musical experimentation we sooner or later experienced that feeling of thinking about where we had arrived and what other characteristics we wanted to use to connote our style, if we were happy with what we had done and what we could develop to finally reach that sense of fullness. and contentment that seems so difficult to obtain.

There could be more answers, answers in relation to various factors such as time, our life, aspirations and the same answers could change over time …….

Being able to understand the unique and unrepeatable essence of every moment could be something that goes beyond any answer.

https://open.spotify.com/artist/2g1SWWuJd1429eVEQ1clzK

Music Sound Better Together

Whatever direction we want to take, motivation is first of all important and then where we want to go.

With the motivation we give ourselves an answer, an answer that will make us happy to have made a precise choice so we can savor every moment of the journey until the end, which in any case subsequently becomes a new beginning. the journey, or being already in a group and becoming more numerous, what a journey allows you to do is still know and know each other, an interior path where our still unknown sides could emerge and that will make us grow. and share, music can be a tool that allows us to alleviate suffering or to rejoice together, it can unite rather than divide and united it is much stronger in overcoming adversity. others walk,

I thank those who open new paths to discover new ways to reach the goals, I do it condi seeing these simple passages of mine with you

https://open.spotify.com/album/1e20Fd39aGielR0ivaJPlV

Music in absence of obstructions

In the last decades until today there has been a flourishing of relaxing music and to meditate, since we started talking about the new age we are looking for something that can lead us to deeper and transcendental states of consciousness, we listened in the course of the centuries chants and recitations (for example the Mantras) that act on a subtle level but we think that music can also lead us to realize different cognitive abilities.

It must be borne in mind that music can certainly stimulate different sensations but when it comes to music to meditate here it is a colossal deception, the Indian Masters have been saying for many centuries that for the meditator the sound is like a thorn and therefore must be avoided. who meditates does it in places where there are no noises and disturbances so it is not possible that there is suitable music because it would cause distraction to the conscience.

I think it is right to explain it because this collection of songs is aimed at relaxing, if possible, to calm suffering and tension and is in no way music to meditate.

Music in the absence of obstruction is not a simple title, there is a word in the Tibetan language and it is “Namkha” which translated means space, but it is not about space as we westerners understand it but more precisely indicates “absence of obstruction” so it is a possibility to move anywhere and cannot be contained, clouds, planes and birds, everything can move because there is no obstruction so I thought of playing without obstacles with the ability to go anywhere.

Another element that I have taken into account is time, drums, drums and percussion are deliberately practically absent because I wanted to make sure that this music could express the blossoming of a flower, the change of clouds in the sky and the wind that sings. together with the mountains, the sounds are able to give the cadence without the need to perceive the beat that beats.

Conventionally in a journey we have a departure, moving and arrival and there are those who believe that the journey is more important than the destination, who can listen to these songs and make you go anywhere, freely and without obstructions.

https://open.spotify.com/album/7vDQSUbDvcmO3IcOfFqMA8

21

When I started playing I had in mind to make unique music, which was not reproducible by other musicians due to its difficulty and complexity but listening well to what others were doing I realized that human beings in addition to knowing how to emulate could also improve what they had done heard.

I accepted this a little at a time but it was a great benefit because I began to collaborate with other people and this allowed me to learn many things, whatever the musical genre we do it is important to be able to clearly express what we are, to be not only performers but be part of that musical flow and be those vibrations.

This album that I have titled 21 is a tribute to those who inspire me every day, what I try to transmit is simplifying what is complicated, the first experiments of creative connections without limits of musical genre

https://open.spotify.com/album/0uKHPQ2bpx4Hn4quneiQ0s