This GENIUS died way too soon and for his time!! he was such an inspiration and of the greatest! R.I.P.

Jóhann Jóhannsson - "A Sparrow Alighted Upon Our Shoulder" ( Cat Friendly Remix )

Orange Marmalade

It's Foggy Today

Etude No. 12 in F-sharp minor
Allegro molto

Etudes

Etude No. 12 in F-sharp minor

Nearly 2 hours ago I asked to my FB friends to give their own images/scenes that melancholy inspires them. I was literally overwhelmed with their beautiful images and thoughts. So I decided to compose this music, to add my contribution to the discussion. 
Thank you, guys - you rock. 

If melancholy were music

Winter Stories

All my joy, all my pain

All My Joy All My Pain

Bear Story II

It's what we don't see, when everything else is illuminated. 

Enjoy your summer, folks. 

Artwork: http://www.sxc.hu/profile/porah

Darkness is not the opposite of light

Prelude is the first of a series of stand-alone singles that will be released during the first half of 2020 in collaboration with New York-based record label Sonder House. This piece marks a new beginning  on Sergio’s musical adventure —a more personal, thoughtful one— and is accompanied by a series of illustrations created by multidisciplinary designer Ryan Carl exploring topics such as interconnectedness, emptiness, and freedom through the use of simple structures and patterns. The cover art, just like the music, is a journey from beginning to middle to end, everything fading into a greater point of clarity and then fading back out again.

https://bonjoursergio.com/prelude

Composed and performed by Sergio Díaz De Rojas.
Recorded and mixed by Nil Ciuró at his studio in Barcelona.
Mastered by Alex Saltz.
Released by Sonder House.
Artwork by Ryan Carl: https://ryancarl.studio

Prelude

In This Way

Jacob Lavallee - In This Way

In The Dark Hours

This is another piano piece taken live from the streaming concert I made on April 22nd for celebrating the release of my new album "Now". 
It's a free download - enjoy and share!

Darkness is not the opposite of light (live)

It is fitting that composer and pianist Fabrizio Paterlini was born and lives in the ancient northern Italian city of Mantua. A romantic and historically significant centre of musical and artistic excellence, the city’s elegance and cultural depth permeate Paterlini’s exquisite original solo piano compositions. Yet despite Mantua’s unavoidable influence in informing the composer’s work, his cinematic music is far from localized, or even recognizably Italian, instead tapping directly into universal human emotions.

Listeners and critics alike are torn as to how best label Paterlini’s beautiful sound. Neo-classical, Ambient, Minimalist and New Age have all been considered, but it is more pertinent to note some of the adjectives regularly used in appreciation of his sonic palette. Ethereal, soulful, lush, emotive, dreamy, delicate and, tellingly, passionate, all appear with unerring frequency. The composer himself describes his work as “like a glass of red wine on a summer evening,” in awareness of the calming effect of his reflective melodies on the listener.

Paterlini began playing piano at six-years-old. From the first moment he stroked the keys his life irrevocably changed, music becoming “a choice made every day...explored in all its aspects.” And so music and his life’s path became, and remain, inextricably linked; while he progresses as a musician and composer, so his development as a human being runs parallel. Formal study in his chosen artistic endeavour came with five years at Campiani’s Academy, Mantua’s Academy of Arts, from where he graduated in Music Theory.

The 1990s saw Paterlini extensively cutting his teeth as a gigging musician by performing rock classics, pop and jazz in local bands. While playing with these outfits he began to compose music, at this stage principally material of a progressive rock persuasion. As the decade and century drew to a close Paterlini reached an important decision, being to concentrate exclusively on the piano – the instrument that, in his own words, “best expresses his inner world.” Yet it was not until 2006 that he began composing music for solo piano.

In the following year his life’s musical journey took a momentous step with the release of his debut CD, Viaggi in Aeromobile (Travel in Aircraft) on the Music Center label. A collection of beautifully structured, graceful mood pieces displaying Paterlini’s natural touch and seemingly effortless talents, the release was warmly received in Italian specialist press. 

2008 saw the issue of an EP previewing Paterlini’s sophomore full-length, Viandanze, which was to follow on his new Fabrizio Paterlini Records imprint in December, 2009. In the interim the 8-track Remixed collection, offered as a free download on his website, presented the composer’s material as subtly reworked soundscapes, comfortably easing them into cogent chillout territory. Viandanze was partially funded by donations from Paterlini’s burgeoning fanbase, and performed in 2010 at Teatro Verdi in Mantua.

Prestige festival appearances then preceded the 2010 release of the flawless Fragments Found CD, again on Paterlini’s own label, drawing comparisons with luminaries such as Ludovico Einaudi, Erik Satie and George Winston.

2011 saw the issue of the double CD set “Fragments Found + Viandanze”, published under the Japanese label Inpairtment/P*DIS. 
During the Fall of the same year, he started working to his “Autumn Stories” project, by composing, recording and releasing on-line one song for each week of the Autumn season. The project resulted in the CD “Autumn Stories”, published in February 2012. 
 
The increasing number of fans sharing his music on the net, led him to “Piano_Anders #3” Festival in Hasselt (BE) in the month of February 2013. Two months later, he released his new full album “Now”, followed by an exclusive release in Japan (P*DIS). This release, acclaimed by specialized magazines as Headphone Commute (US) and A Closer Listen (UK), will bring him to tour Russia in the month of November 2013 and Japan in the month of January 2014.
