Name: SensibiliAllaFoglie - 1991 (L.Palmeri, L.Palazzolo) by lepa - AFRIKALIA
Duration: 3 min 58 s
Description: progressive rock psicadelico. se ascolto a distanza di tempo trovo una buona trama prog, vari scenari in una storia. suonato e registrato con il carissimo amico di lunga data Luca (guitar), a casa sua in Piazza dei Signori con 4 piste, Roland Model 660 synth, guitar, bass

progressive rock psicadelico. se ascolto a distanza di tempo trovo una buona trama prog, vari scenari in una storia. suonato e registrato con il carissimo amico di lunga data Luca (guitar), a casa sua in Piazza dei Signori con 4 piste, Roland Model 660 synth, guitar, bass

SensibiliAllaFoglie - 1991 (L.Palmeri, L.Palazzolo)

grandi ricordi quando eravamo insieme in quella spiaggia a quei tempi; l'ultima volta che l'abbiamo visitata Fabrizio scriveva il testo mentre io accennavo i primi accordi; poi abbiamo registrato qualche giorno dopo nei colli Euganei, così!
Fabrizio, tu sarai invece sempre nella mia memoria ed ora anche in quella della Bassona. Sei stata una persona vera, un grande uomo, semplicemente un vero amico.

Abbiamo sempre pensato di regalare questo brano a tutti quelli ..che sanno, ..che conoscono, la Bassona.

Bassona Reggaquiem - 1995 (F.Carbognin, L.Palazzolo)

SPLEEN "Iona" - 1990 Montegalda rehearsal room

Kogo Daba (Burkina) = zappa (it) = hoe
E' un inno all'agricoltore e all'importanza di avere a tavola i frutti coltivati da altri per noi. Ho fatto registrare i cori cantati in italiano in Burkina. Il movimento che ho provato a dare in questa traccia a me sembra nettamente ..afro disco!

It is a hymn to the farmer and to the importance of having at the table the fruits grown by others for us. I had the choirs sung in Italian recorded in Burkina Faso. The movement I tried to give in this track seems distinctly… Afro disco to me!

connection

Kogo Daba  - AFRIKALIA Connection 2020

SPLEEN - 1989 LIVE intro

SPLEEN "il giorno degli Dei" Suite - 1989 Montegalda rehearsal room

SPLEEN "il Drago" - 1988

08 Awa Temaye - AFRIKALIA Connection 2020

Rubbery Bandz

What comes up if you mix american Gangsters and italian singers

50Cent x OrnellaVanoni

About lepa:
I am sure i have lived in the past and am still living now a parallel life in a higher dimension, full of noises that become sounds, of sounds that become music, of music that becomes emotions, of deep emotions that becomes memories, personal introspection, psychic self-medication, ability to foresee.

At 6 years old i started playing my mother's piano and simple flute, than transverse flute in lower secondary school. My first great teacher was Don Floriano, a priest crazy for music, director of orchestra where i played among other wind instruments. I also had a guitar at home and soon discovered i liked putting my fingers on the strings too. My mother was a music teacher and made me listen to many of her classical music records. It was lucky for me to be able to have musical explanations at any time, but she didn't know how to play guitar that i was increasingly interested in. I still listen to my mother's records.

Around 13-14 years old i had a very important new music INPUT:

> I was accompanying my uncle for work  by car near Padova (i think Este or Colli Euganei!?) when he stopped near ..disco!? where a rock band was starting "sound check" before the show; so i have had the opportunity to listen them playing live fom my first time, vox!, two guitars!!, bass!!! I vaguely remember my uncle laughed about the name of the band, i think Serena, because "Serena" in English can be translated as "calm" but that music was ROCK! It could be they were the Serena Rock Band at the beginning, just born in 1982.
Serena Rock Band - Rock Palace ( Demo 1 1983 ) > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVcOZgp3urs 

> I was so interested in the rock music i asked Gabbia Dischi shop for advice on purchasing a rock album. They sold me Genesis (the twelfth album by English rock band Genesis - album released 3 October 1983). The first time i listened Genesis i was alone with headphones at home and after the first song i got up to drink afraid to listen the second song. Genesis left a very deep mark on me.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genesis_%28Genesis_album%29
 
These events left me stunned. How hard those distorted guitars! what sounds! the bass impressed me, vibrations drilled me.  
So much to learn too! So.. New school. New friends. New music informations. New words to understand ..metal, heavy, hard, speed, rock, prog, psycadelic, distortion, ampli, effects, to play live.. 

I am very grateful to my "special" and long-time friend Carlo Bonollo for introducing me to heavy metal & hard rock. The same goes for Marco Foccoli who also introduced me to play bass.

A day i started to play my acoustic guitar like a bass without last two strings. I was in the bedroom of Marco Ferrero, great drummer today and in the past with Asgard after SPLEEN, where our adventure begins (1983) and where he had a BIG drums. Soon i bought my first bass for 50,000 lire (25 euro), a bone i would say now, but it had only 4 BIG strings and it was electric! 

We founded this rock bands: 

1984 > Visual Prime (Luca Rubaltelli vox, Antonio Marchitelli guitar, Gabriele Ferretti piano)

1985 > WithHer (Hermer vox, Marchitelli guitar)

1986 > SestoSenso (Vincenzo Vic vox, Alberto Cecchinato guitar, Gabriele Ferretti piano)

1987-1991 > SPLEEN (Francesco Gepoli vox, Andrea Maso guitar, Guido Bettinelli guitar). 

SPLEEN have been playing prog music together for 5 years; i think Marco and i have become a reliable rhythmic base over time, skilled in handling compound rhythms; we were a solid foundation to build prog around guitars distortions lines of Andrea and Guido, complexity of rhythms not standard, unconventional musical movements, fantasy. We improved also our skills with Enzo Carpentieri's lessons. I remember everything, one of the most intense and productive period of my life. Two and a half hours of music produced, only SPLEEN music, a lots of live concerts, late nights, real rock sounds. Awarded by Enrico Ruggeri at PadovaFiera 1990 for best sound.
Andrea Maso was the leader of the band with his a distorted and fluted guitar sound, a very skilled composer, a very important vocal support, lover of Irish atmospheres and mists, a friend.

Thanks very much to Franco Maria Serena, vox of a legendary Serena Rock Band ..we got to know each other over time, who help us to finish this CD (1992) dedicated to the memory of Andrea https://mellowlabelproductions.bandcamp.com/album/spleen

After SPLEEN.
Over the years i played, composed and arranged progressive rock, italian rock, psychedelic music, electronic music, reggae and afro music.

1993
I founded Meridies with my great songswriter, musician, poet and best friend Fabrizio Carbognin. Strange years of change, those. I think i played and composed the most wonderful italian rock music of my life with Fabrizio Carbognin (vox), Sergio Marchesini (piano) and Massimo Aiello (drums) but ..it can only remain all inside me. I'm sure it was wonderful for everyone, also for my father who rarely stopped to listen my music.

2006
I started to study a new instrument, i thought xilophono. Instead luck allowed me to meet a balafon (african xilophono) and an original Griot from Burkina Faso, Kalifa Diarra, my best african musician friend. I owe a lot to him for my knowledge about african music, origin of blues in Mali, sacred instruments such as balafon. I took many lessons with him so to start soon playing live with my new instruments. Over time I had fun playig balafon and N'Goni live with a lot of african musicians. It was very exciting to support alone the melody among 10 powerful percussions around me with my N'Goni distorted in a old ampli Roland Jazz Chorus120! But even more beautiful is finding your own internal harmony when I play it acoustically before going to sleep or after a stressful day.

2008
I founded in Padova the african percussion Djolibè Djambè with my great senegal musician friend Falu Seck. https://www.pontisonori.org/


Today. 
I write, perform, record music to take care of myself every day immersing myself in my musical dimension or to have fun with friends; also because is very deep to communicate feelings through sounds, vibrations, colorful waves. I think music is the most powerful communication system which can be used by humans. It can be simple for everyone like clapping or whistling but it can be raised to higher levels too, like science, art, abstract form with real meaning, personal tool for spiritual formation and psychic self-medication what i feel most.

2024
I am currently working in a new unexpected Trap project experimenting with my afro sounds and my son who is asking me beats:) so ..i couldn't miss the Trap now! But even because i see young musicians with a great desire to communicate with new ways of writing, singing lyrics, thinking beats and words. WOW! i respect them.

Usually i play all my musical instruments accumulated over the years: NGoni, drums, bass, balafon, piano, guitars, flutes, contrabass, african violin, harmonica. As a computer scientist i have also skills to handle synths that i love, DAWs, drums machines or manage hardware&software. I also attended mixing and master courses to enhance my knowledge of my small but precious home studio recording.

Here you can find one of my afro electronic works Connection (2000): www.afrikalia.it 
This project took me 2 years. I played endlessly, without getting tired. I invited exceptional musicians to play with me, unknown but certainly professional artists. I built synts and drum lines above real acustic sounds recorded in my studio in Padova but also in Burkina, created and arranged everything as i wanted, mixed and mastered as i wanted. I gave everything at that time. In this musical work i was completely free. I only did what i felt deeply inside me, without external interference of any kind. I also tested myself, my skills, my maturity, my sensitivity. I did it for myself and this is the result. I would say i feel satisfied. Also i like to think i can leave my little mark in history. Then ..just unexpectedly seeing my kids and their friends listening and dancing my music ..it was like having sold a million vinyl records!!!

Honestly, i will never be able to get off this dimension where the sounds are colors, the precision is sensitivity and the time is breath.

SensibiliAllaFoglie - 1991 (L.Palmeri, L.Palazzolo)

lepa - AFRIKALIA

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