'Scenes from the four seasons' is a collection of unreleased tracks and b-sides from 2012, running through the four seasons and stopping at some intimate moments in Winter, a tranquil evening in Autumn, two seaside scenes between Spring and Summer.

I decided to have all these tracks together in this collection not only because of the common theme, but above all because, when I started working on my first modern classical album, that will be released later this year, I didn't want to left all these works incomplete, even if they were mostly expression of ideas and style still imperfect and evolving.

I'm sure you'll find a moment of peace and tranquillity in these notes, and even some passages that represents your life during the seasons, an intimate moment, as when you're at home and the snow starts falling in winter, or when you first see the seaside in spring.

Thank you for taking time to listen to these songs. 
All your support is appreciated, especially in view of a strings recording session for the production of my new modern classical album.

Album artwork is "Restleness" by Agnès Caixas, photographer from Barcelona - Spain. Find her online at:

http://www.flickr.com/people/agnolia/

Follow the latest news about Halo at:

haloproject.co.uk 
Halο 
facebook.com/halosphere 
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I take this chance to remind you that my previous EP, "Late Winter Tales", is still available at http://dewtonerecordings.com/album/halo-late-winter-tales-dtr013 and on the major internet music stores.

Thanks heartily for all your support.

released 03 March 2013 
All tracks Composed, Recorded and Mastered by Pasquale Riviezzo. 
© 2013, All Rights Reserved.

Halo - Scenes from the four seasons - 6.Interlude

Inner Light

This is the final mastered version of "Crystal Landscape", and appears as the second track on "The Rain on Vatnajokull".The EP is available for digital download on <a href="http://haloproject.bandcamp.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://haloproject.bandcamp.com</a> . I'm going to upload it entirely on Soundcloud in the next days, too. Thanks for listening, and for your comments. Hope you like it!

2.Grímsvötn

A song I was writing some days ago.. I felt this way, this evening, so I decided to share it with you all :) . It is very delicate and peaceful, I think, even if there are some traces of concern rising from the emerging thougths. Hopeful and optimistic, but at the same time with a little vein of melancholy. :)



Thoughts (Before Leaving)

I have always been fascinated by rain and a wet city scene in Zurich, Switzerland inspired me. It’s incredible how rain affects the view of a landscape; the soft mist just rising in the distance; the entire place suddenly taking on shades of blue and grey; the moving, undefined clouds in the sky. That entire place feels frozen in time, like a photo, a portrait.

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"With “Rain Says” we have an exquisite combination of strings, piano, and synths, which are bolstered by field recordings of rain, which are arranged in such a way as to faintly imply percussion. The explorations of dissonance and arrhythmic patterns coupled with beautiful melody and complementary string sections creates an interesting counterpoint, ripe with tension, which is relieved when the rain takes over again. A simply gorgeous track." - Igloo Magazine

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Double transparent blue vinyl + digital 
Catalogue number: ASIPV002
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Halo -  Rain Says

My second collaboration with http://soundcloud.com/myristica.  A warm track, a mix of chillout, ambient, piano electronica. Just let these sounds embrace you in the evening sunset! We hope you'll like it, this is for you. :)

Halo & Myristica - Forever Sunset

Evening. Sunset. Tokyo Haneda's Airport. Announcements, Lounges, Gate, Waiting. Boarding. Departure. Thoughts before Takeoff.
New *Halo's Single, "Haneda/Cleyra", available for free download @<a href="http://haloproject.bandcamp.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">haloproject.bandcamp.com</a>.
The two tracks are released in High Quality Format.

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Haneda

A new short track. Memories and soundscape of the seashore in a wintry evening. This will be included as track in a new little EP that will be released by the end of March! I hope you'll like the feelings and the crystalline sounds. :)
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Thank you for listening. :)

Halo - Seashore [Remastered]

This is a piano arrangement of a beautiful song by myristica. Beyond the glow is a warm song, a lovely 3/4 piece that will surelywarm the cold days of your winter. I imagined listening to this at home,while out is raining and inside the hearth is lit, playing something atthe piano. So I thought it could fit well the song's spirit to give it aloose waltz feel in the central part, while letting the sensation fromthe sorrounding ambience emerge in the end, where the piano sound getslost in the atmosphere. I hope you'll like this arrangement, I tried to mantain the theme of beyond the glow, freely changing the end and thebeginning in a way that could fit the song well.

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More news coming in the next days about the release of a new EP, 'Cleyra', and my first album, coming in 2012.

You can listen to more beautiful songs by <a href="http://soundcloud.com/myristica" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">myristica ♫</a> (including the original version of this song) at her Sc page (follow the link), and be updated on her latest news on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/myristica.chillout.music" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Fb</a> or <a href="http://twitter.com/#%21/MeilingGrey" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter</a>.

I hope you'll enjoy this arrangement!
greetings from Milan,

Pasquale.

Beyond the glow [Piano]

This is a composition based on a beautiful Cello theme composed by David Smith (aka <a href="http://soundcloud.com/oxfordambient" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">TheOxfordAmbientCollectiv</a>).

This morning I was listening to his last song, "<a href="http://soundcloud.com/oxfordambient/and-in-the-endless-night-they" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">And In The Endless Night They Shed Their Tears</a>", and I immediately thought it was a very nice improvisation; I especially loved the sound of the cello and its expressivity. Then I thought it could be even more meaningful and expressive adding another harmonic layer through an elegant and well distributed piano layer, adding a nice spacious ambient feeling to the already wonderful cello part recorded by David. I also added a layer of electronic reverse/noise effects, because I really thought they could fit the song well.
I hope you'll enjoy this collab.

Pasquale Riviezzo // Halo - Piano, Electronics
David Smith // TheOxfordAmbientCollectiv - Cello

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You can listen to more songs by David at his soundcloud profile at <a href="http://soundcloud.com/oxfordambient" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">TheOxfordAmbientCollectiv</a>.

Thank you very much for listening!

The track is released for free download, just like the original one.
Also released as part of a compilation, "<a href="http://www.negativesoundinstitute.com/grid/index.php/feature/latest">Pathways</a>", on Negative Sound Institute netlabel.

And In The Endless Night They Shed Their Tears

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Halo - Late Winter Tales - 2.Kiri

4th track from my new EP, "<a href="http://dewtone.bandcamp.com/album/halo-late-winter-tales-dtr013">Late Winter Tales</a>, now out on <a href="http://dewtonerecordings.com">Dewtone Recordings</a>. You can now download the EP in digital format at http://dewtone.bandcamp.com/, while it will be available in digital stores from May 15th.

More info about Halo at <a href="http://haloproject.co.uk">haloproject.co.uk</a>; follow our pages on <a href="http://facebook.com/halosphere">Facebook</a> or <a href="http://twitter.com/halotwtr">Twitter</a>for the latest news.

Mastered by Ludvig Cimbrelius.

Halo - Late Winter Tales - 4.Drift

Winter's gone, Spring is in Greyscale.

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--This track is a b-side from my upcoming work, "Late Winter Tales"--

Halo - Spring in Greyscale

This is a remix I made for Lullatone, a popular music group based in Nagoya, Japan, whose music is characterized by an innocent, child-like quality and spare, lo-fi sounds. It will be included in a compilation cd which will be released in China later this year. The track "A Slow Waltz" was originally released on 'Computer Recital' on Audio Dregs Recordings (2003).
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Lullatone are: Shawn James Seymour and Yoshimi Tomida. You can follow them at their website http://lullatone.com, or on facebook at http://www.facebook.com/lullatone.

Halo is a project of contemporary/electronic/ambient music by Pasquale Riviezzo, 21, Italy.
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Lullatone - A Slow Waltz (Halo Remix)

[#] 
This is a special voice edit version of a new song I was working on. I thought some lyrics by Say were really apt to the atmosphere of the track, so I tried to combine voice and music in this version; I'm still working on the instrumental version, but we hope you'll like the meaningful words and the lovely theme of this. :)

Music by <a href="http://facebook.com/halosphere">Halo</a>
Voice & Lyrics by <a href="http://soundcloud.com/rain_and_sun">Say</a>.
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Halo & Say - Will I ever be missed? [#] 


will there be anyone who miss me when I´m gone
not in pain - just in a loving thought

will there be a place to stay 
when it's so cold like now

will there be anyone who wants to hold me 
and I want to hold him

I don´t know 
maybe for ever 
this is only a dream

will anyone ever awake 
next to me with a smile

will I ever feel a warming smile 
to feel arms around me

will there be anyone who wants to hold me 
and I want to hold him

I don´t know 
maybe for ever 
this is only a dream

will I ever find comfort 
in a loving smile

will there be anyone who wants to hold me 
and I want to hold him

I don´t know 
maybe for ever 
this is only a dream

tears running down my face 
since hours again and again

I don´t know why 
everything is daily life

I´ve never been missed...

Halo & Say - Will I ever be missed? [#]

This is a very special version of a song which will be included in my "Late Winter Tales" EP. forthcoming on <a href="http://dewtonerecordings.com">Dewtone Recordings</a> May 15th. I rearranged the song in this version for piano and strings for some live shows I could start doing in Milan by the end of May... It is a short but moving song depicting an evening marine scene. I thought to share it with you. I hope you'll like it.

Pasquale

Mastered by Halo

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Painting by Ivan Aivazovsky. :)

Halo - Late Winter Tales - 10.Marine (Piano&Strings Version)

This is my 3rd piano arrangement of a lovely song by http://soundcloud.com/myristica, "Heart and Soul". This is a really heartfelt and lovely melody, so I'll let the music speak for me, this time. We hope you'll like this. :)

Pasquale

You can listen to the original version of this song by Myristica at: http://soundcloud.com/myristica/myristica-heart-and-soul. You can also follow her on facebook at http://www.facebook.com/myristica.music.

You can also follow us on <a href="http://facebook.com/halosphere">Facebook</a> or <a href="http://twitter.com/halostwtr">Twitter</a> for the latest news. :)

Halo - Heart and Soul [Piano]

入梅 (Nyūbai) literally means Entering the Rainy Season (tsuyu(梅雨)) in Japanese; the season lasts in Japan from early June to mid July.
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Photo: "June Bokeh" by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonnystella/">Jonathan Spence</a>

Halo - Scenes from the four seasons - 2.Nyūbai

A little ambient piece I wrote yesterday afternoon.. Sorry not to have so much time for composing music until July, but I really wanted to share something with you in a little free time from my studying.

I always thought of ambient music as a way to effectively depict soundscapes with notes and musical colors (frequencies, tones, silences).

I’ll listen to this with closed eyes and I’ll see sounds painting a landscape in the imaginary space. Like emerging from the deepness of your thoughts, and sorrounding you with its presence, because it's you who has been creating it. Music conceals places in its notes.

I called that place "The wastelands", a distant landscape brought back to our time for a little moment, as it were while the wind blew in the cloudy sky and the sun set over the horizon of the open fields.

Just like a dream, at the end you open your eyes and there's no trace left, if not a subtle sensation of having been there, somewhere, sometime...

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Halo - 3.The Wastelands

Original Song by <a href="http://apparat.net">Apparat</a>, from Walls (2007), 
lots of love to him for the beautiful music ~

Remixed by <a href="http://soundcloud.com/haloproject">Halo</a> / Pasquale Riviezzo.
Mastered by <a href="http://soundcloud.com/needanamemusic">Need A Name</a>.

Also a special thank you to <a href="http://soundcloud.com/needanamemusic">Need A Name</a> for the colorful cover.

Check out our pages on <a href="http://facebook.com/halosphere">Facebook</a> and <a href="http://twitter.com/halotwtr">Twitter</a> for the latest news. 
Really hoping you like this remix, big hugs from Milan to all of you! :)

Apparat - Not a Number (Halo Remix)

'Scenes from the four seasons' is a collection of unreleased tracks and b-sides from 2012, running through the four seasons and stopping at some intimate moments in Winter, a tranquil evening in Autumn, two seaside scenes between Spring and Summer. 

I decided to have all these tracks together in this collection not only because of the common theme, but above all because, when I started working on my first modern classical album, that will be released later this year, I didn't want to left all these works incomplete, even if they were mostly expression of ideas and style still imperfect and evolving.

However I'm sure you'll find a moment of peace and tranquillity in these notes, and even some passages that represents your life during the seasons, an intimate moment, as when you're at home and the snow starts falling in winter, or when you first see the seaside in spring.

Thank you for taking time to listen to these songs.
All your support is appreciated, especially in view of a strings recording session for the production of my new modern classical album.

Cover artwork is "Restleness" by Agnès Caixas, photographer from Barcelona - Spain. Find her online at:

http://www.flickr.com/people/agnolia/

Follow the latest news about Halo at:

haloproject.co.uk
soundcloud.com/haloproject
facebook.com/halosphere
twitter.com/halotwtr

I take this chance to remind you that my previous EP, "Late Winter Tales", is still available at http://dewtonerecordings.com/album/halo-late-winter-tales-dtr013 and on the major internet music stores.

Thanks heartily for all your support.

released 03 March 2013 
All tracks Composed, Recorded and Mastered by Pasquale Riviezzo. 
© 2013, All Rights Reserved.

Halo - Scenes from the four seasons - 13.Harvest

Halo - Scenes from the four seasons - 5.January, 24th [Piano Solo]

'Scenes from the four seasons' is a collection of unreleased tracks and b-sides from 2012, running through the four seasons and stopping at some intimate moments in Winter, a tranquil evening in Autumn, two seaside scenes between Spring and Summer. 

I decided to have all these tracks together in this collection not only because of the common theme, but above all because, when I started working on my first modern classical album, that will be released later this year, I didn't want to left all these works incomplete, even if they were mostly expression of ideas and style still imperfect and evolving.

However I'm sure you'll find a moment of peace and tranquillity in these notes, and even some passages that represents your life during the seasons, an intimate moment, as when you're at home and the snow starts falling in winter, or when you first see the seaside in spring.

Thank you for taking time to listen to these songs.
All your support is appreciated, especially in view of a strings recording session for the production of my new modern classical album.

Cover artwork is "Restleness" by Agnès Caixas, photographer from Barcelona - Spain. Find her online at:

http://www.flickr.com/people/agnolia/

Follow the latest news about Halo at:

haloproject.co.uk
facebook.com/halosphere
twitter.com/halotwtr

I take this chance to remind you that my previous EP, "Late Winter Tales", is still available at http://dewtonerecordings.com/album/halo-late-winter-tales-dtr013 and on the major internet music stores.

Thanks heartily for all your support.

released 03 March 2013 
All tracks Composed, Recorded and Mastered by Pasquale Riviezzo. 
© 2013, All Rights Reserved.

Halo - Scenes from the four seasons - 8.A Little Moment

Scenes from the four seasons' is a collection of unreleased tracks and b-sides from 2012, running through the four seasons and stopping at some intimate moments in Winter, a tranquil evening in Autumn, two seaside scenes between Spring and Summer. 

I decided to have all these tracks together in this collection not only because of the common theme, but above all because, when I started working on my first modern classical album, that will be released later this year, I didn't want to left all these works incomplete, even if they were mostly expression of ideas and style still imperfect and evolving.

However I'm sure you'll find a moment of peace and tranquillity in these notes, and even some passages that represents your life during the seasons, an intimate moment, as when you're at home and the snow starts falling in winter, or when you first see the seaside in spring.

Thank you for taking time to listen to these songs.
All your support is appreciated, especially in view of a strings recording session for the production of my new modern classical album.

Cover artwork is "Restleness" by Agnès Caixas, photographer from Barcelona - Spain. Find her online at:

http://www.flickr.com/people/agnolia/

Follow the latest news about Halo at:

haloproject.co.uk
soundcloud.com/haloproject
facebook.com/halosphere
twitter.com/halotwtr

I take this chance to remind you that my previous EP, "Late Winter Tales", is still available at http://dewtonerecordings.com/album/halo-late-winter-tales-dtr013 and on the major internet music stores.

Thanks heartily for all your support.

released 03 March 2013 
All tracks Composed, Recorded and Mastered by Pasquale Riviezzo. 
© 2013, All Rights Reserved.

Halo - Scenes from the four seasons - 3.Winter's Passage

News:
05/05/2022
A new beautiful song for solo piano, "Inner Light" is out today on Soundcloud. After a long break, I can't wait to share new music with you.

30/11/2016
Halo is currently on hiatus. A new EP and single are in the works.. Thanks as always for listening and for your support. I will be back with more beautiful music for all of you.

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Halo is a project of contemporary classical/ambient music by Pasquale Riviezzo, 29, Italy.

Labels:
ASIP: http://astrangelyisolatedplace.com
Dewtone Recordings: http://dewtone.com
Sound in Silence: http://fb.com/soundinsilencerecords
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Releases:

15 May 2012
<a href="http://dewtonerecordings.com/album/late-winter-tales" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Late Winter Tales (EP)</a>
Dewtone Recordings [DTR013]

03 March 2013
<a href="http://haloproject.bandcamp.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Scenes from the four seasons - B-Sides</a>

06 March 2014
<a href="http://astrangelyisolatedplace.bandcamp.com/album/halo-song-of-the-highest-tower" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Song of the Highest Tower (EP)</a>
A Strangely Isolated Place [ASIP029]

26 January 2015
Rain Says - <a href="https://astrangelyisolatedplace.bandcamp.com/album/europe" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Europe</a>
A Strangely Isolated Place [ASIPV002]

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Remixes:
• <a href="http://soundcloud.com/haloproject/lullatone-a-slow-waltz-halo-remix" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Lullatone - A Slow Waltz (Halo Remix)</a>
• <a href="http://soundcloud.com/haloproject/not_a_number_rmx" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Apparat - Not A Number (Halo Remix)</a>
• <a href="http://snd.sc/YUWMw6" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Need A Name - Rain, Roads and Lights (Halo Remix)</a>
•<a href="http://dewtonerecordings.com/track/after-the-rain-by-halo" rel="nofollow" target="_"> Porya Hatami - After the rain (Halo Remix)</a>

Collaborations:
• <a href="http://soundcloud.com/myristica/when-it-rains-in-mei" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">December Waltz by Myristica (Piano arr.)</a>
• <a href="http://soundcloud.com/myristica/forever-sunset-by-myristica" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Halo &amp; Myristica - Forever Sunset</a>
• <a href="http://soundcloud.com/haloproject/and-in-the-endless-night-they" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Halo &amp; TheOxfordAmbientCollectiv - And in the endless night they shed their tears</a>
• <a href="http://soundcloud.com/haloproject/beyond-the-glow_piano" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Beyond the glow by Myristica (Piano arr.)</a>
• <a href="http://soundcloud.com/myristica/myristica-halo-blue" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Halo &amp; Myristica - Blue</a>
• <a href="http://soundcloud.com/haloproject/halo-for-melancholy" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Halo &amp; Motohiko Hirami - For Melancholy</a>
• <a href="http://soundcloud.com/haloproject/halo_will-i-ever-be-missed" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Halo &amp; Say - Will I ever be missed?</a>
• <a href="http://soundcloud.com/haloproject/heart-and-soul-piano" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Heart and Soul by Myristica (Piano arr.)</a>

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