Collaborations

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

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

[...]
Into a gradual calm the breezes sink, 
A blue rim borders all the lake's still brink; 
There doth the twinkling aspen's foliage sleep, 
And insects clothe, like dust, the glassy deep: 
And now, on every side, the surface breaks 
Into blue spots, and slowly lengthening streaks; 
Here, plots of sparkling water tremble bright 
With thousand thousand twinkling points of light; 
There, waves that, hardly weltering, die away, 
Tip their smooth ridges with a softer ray; 
And now the whole wide lake in deep repose 
Is hushed, and like a burnished mirror glows
[...]
In airy baskets hanging, work and sing. 
Just where a cloud above the mountain rears 
An edge all flame, the broadening sun appears; 
A long blue bar its aegis orb divides, 
And breaks the spreading of its golden tides; 
And now that orb has touched the purple steep 
Whose softened image penetrates the deep. 
'Cross the calm lake's blue shades the cliffs aspire, 
With towers and woods, a "prospect all on fire;" 
While coves and secret hollows, through a ray 
Of fainter gold, a purple gleam betray. 
[...]
And now the van reflects the solar beam; 
The rear through iron brown betrays a sullen gleam. 
While silent stands the admiring crowd below, 
Silent the visionary warriors go, 
Winding in ordered pomp their upward way 
Till the last banner of the long array 
Has disappeared, and every trace is fled 
Of splendour--save the beacon's spiry head 
Tipt with eve's latest gleam of burning red. 
Now, while the solemn evening shadows sail, 
On slowly-waving pinions, down the vale; 
And, fronting the bright west, yon oak entwines 
Its darkening boughs and leaves, in stronger lines; 
'Tis pleasant near the tranquil lake to stray 
Where, winding on along some secret bay, 
The swan uplifts his chest, and backward flings 
His neck, a varying arch, between his towering wings: 
The eye that marks the gliding creature sees 
How graceful, pride can be, and how majestic, ease
[...]
But now the clear bright Moon her zenith gains, 
And, rimy without speck, extend the plains: 
The deepest cleft the mountain's front displays 
Scarce hides a shadow from her searching rays; 
From the dark-blue faint silvery threads divide 
The hills, while gleams below the azure tide; 
Time softly treads; throughout the landscape breathes 
A peace enlivened, not disturbed, by wreaths 
Of charcoal-smoke, that o'er the fallen wood, 
Steal down the hill, and spread along the flood. 
The song of mountain-streams, unheard by day, 
Now hardly heard, beguiles my homeward way. 
Air listens, like the sleeping water, still
[...]

William Wordsworth
AN EVENING WALK ADDRESSED TO A YOUNG LADY 
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Hope you enjoy this collab.
Thank you for listening. 

Halo & Myristica :)
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Halo & Myristica - Blue

This song is a collaboration with http://soundcloud.com/motohikohirami, who composed and played the beautiful guitar part in the middle. You can listen to a solo guitar version of this track here: http://soundcloud.com/motohikohirami/for-melancholy. :)

Pasquale Riviezzo: Piano, E.Piano, Organ, Ambience
Motohiko Hirami: Guitar

I hope you'll like it. :)

Also I wanted to write some news about my upcoming new EP "Late Winter Tales". It will be released soon by label Dewtone Recordings, and now it is being mastered by Ludvig Cimbrelius.

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For Melancholy

Halo & Motohiko Hirami - For Melancholy

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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? [#]

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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