Mata and Grifone are a legend for the city of Messina (Sicily) to which I am very fond. Two giants who save the city through their love.
The composition dedicated to them is full of memories, of  ancient and epic atmosphere and dream.

Mata e Grifone ( Piano Day 2021)

This impro is dedicated to the memory of Franco Battiato, a great artist who left this world last week. I have known his artistic production since the 70s, in the 80s I brought some of his hits in concert with a band, in 1997 an interview with him changed my way of seeing many things, in 2009 I tried to know  this great artistic and mystical personality and then I continued to follow his art. 
Unfortunately everything ends and he too has left us to turn into fire, earth, water and air .... I invite you to listen to his thoughts in his artistic production.
May his great soul rest in peace and continue to produce its wonders.

Acqua, Terra, Aria e Fuoco (tribute to Franco Battiato)

An improvisation resulting from the reading of the myth of Gilgamesh: a legend built by human beings 3500 years before Christ that teaches us how brilliant the human mind was at that time ... as opposed to how it is sometimes now ...

Gilgamesh and the mirage of immortality

This is my simple composition for the approaching 2022 Plano day. It is not easy for me to play piano  in this period but I have decided to share what I feel. This song is dedicated to all Ukrainian children who need to fall asleep peacefully every night, as well as ourselves. Peace for you all.

Lullaby for a child (Piano Day 2022)

In a rare moment of freedom I listened to some of my impro again; I tried to find in some parts of them the emotions that I was able to feel during their realization and ... they are all there! The same, unchanged ... I decided to take some parts and propose them to those who will have the patience to listen to them again.
Unfortunately, the phase of life we are experiencing and which has rediscovered war as a phenomenon that we thought was perhaps not current by now does not allow me to compose or improvise with serenity. So I dedicate my emotions contained in these few notes to people who at this moment are experiencing great difficulties or even lose their lives in an absurd and incomprehensible conflict in its reasons for existing.

The palm flower III° (Piano medley 2022)

Look far, fly away...

Dear Friends, this year has flown away too ... for the Christmas Challenge organized by Simon Reich I thought of preparing a short composition that recalled the sound of merry bells even if with a pinch of warmth that invites us to meditate and take care of our dearest loved ones. Happy listening and Merry Christmas to You!!

Bells on Christmas Night (Christmas 2022)

For Piano Day 2023 my improvisation from tonight. I had to wait until I had the right level of concentration to say something through the music. The title " an infinite journey " is the one that we all should travel during our life , in which we run , sometimes we slow down , and we should stop to think , to deepen our knowledge of ourselves and our condition .... all we should do this! The song is dedicated to Franco Battiato, a person who has already done this type of journey and has left us an immense legacy not only artistic. Happy Piano Day everyone!

An infinite journey (Piano Day 2023)

This morning a free improvisation for all of You in the hope of bringing some peace to this world on fire with negative elements.
A simple flower warmed by the spring sun and abandoned to a gentle breeze...
I would like to dedicate this improvisation to the recently deceased Japanese Master Ryuichi Sakamoto, to whom I thought while playing.

Easter Flower

Celebration

This evening a new improvisation in classical style that was inspired by the vastness of the Gobi desert.

Gobi ( "the gift")

Listen, look at the sea, mirror yourself in the sea, wait...
It doesn't matter if something is wrong...my soul dances!

Life

20 years have passed since I went to Nepal and the memories come back vivid every now and then... all I need is a photo, a film or some music to see that magnificent land again, its majestic landscapes and its nature. 
This evening, after a long time, an improvisation through which I relived Nepal.

Memories from Nepal

All men, women and children around the world, all together, breathe... and the breath comes from their souls who aspire to a better world (perhaps not all...) without abuse, hatred and destruction.. .
This is my music for PIano Day 2024: simple music that comes straight from my soul, crosses the skies, flies over the mountains and glides over the wide grassy plains... and screams peace and serenity!
Good luck to all !!

I thought of sending the same impro on my Youtube channel and making it the soundtrack of a slideshow on Villa Giulia in Palermo  (Sicily) and surrounding areas :  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-3FLOnJmP4

The breath of Humanity ( Piano Day 2024)

A piano in a lost, lonely place, a dark cave deep in the earth; a theme; the variations imposed by a soul that wants to be happy...A difficult listen but with moments of exaltation and reflection...an impro

The Dance of the Piano (theme and variations)

I am very fond of this theme as it was one of the Jazz standards that I studied first. I discovered that the theme of Blue Bossa was released on a record in 1963, the year of my birth. This piece has always fascinated me for its simple melody and its harmony, but by chance this morning an intimate improvisation made its way into my soul and the keys of the piano.

Improvisation on the theme of Blue Bossa (Kenny Dorham, 1963)

November... this morning an impro following the paths of my thoughts.

1NOVEMBER 2024

Waking dream

Summer storm

The memory of a sunset in a family holiday; browse through photos; remember situations; the flow of life .....
Dedicated to my Wife .

Photo: sunset in Sardinia (taken from my daughter)

Sunset

It's cold ; the snow falls, the children play with balls of snow and ... Christmas is approaching!

A short improvisation tonight ...

Photo: a snowfall near my house

Snowballs

A simple improvised melody, a joke, to wish all of SC friends a good start of 2017, full of serenity and peace ....

Best wishes and thanks to all of you

Photos of cover taked by my Daughter.

Water flowing

Beautiful sky,   dark sky,
starry sky,      flaming sky,
coveted sky,   accursed sky,
the sky........

this umpretentious impro is dedicated to my russian friend Ashot Danielyan, great composer and musician of the soul .

A climb to the sky

I had not played for days, but tonight I wanted to say something ...

My thoughts were directed to the why of our lives
Why it happens this thing and that thing ....
Why the luck, why the unhappiness
Why  the life, why death ...

An unpretentious improvisation ...a soothing dance of the "why"...

(I did not correct anything, as usual for me,  and I propose to all those who want to feel like it is out of my mind and my fingers)
good listening ..

Photo: a lonely beach on the Strait of Messina (Sicily).

Personality, character, soul....
Lights and shadows of intimacy of heart and mind
merged among them in a particular alchemy....
An improvisation tonight.

Photo: one evening in the woods of the Aosta Valley (taken by my daughter)

Lights and shadows tonight

This is a brief medley of some of my compositions and improvisations for piano that I prefer and which contain many emotions and memories.

The palm flower (piano medley)

Another terrible tragedy for humanity today ....

The weeping of the world

The memory of a survivor (Mr. Sami Modiano) : in one night his meeting with his sister separated by a high-tension barbed wire; he wants to give her a present and throws her a piece of bread; she picks it up and then She threw a package to the Brother in which there was the slice of bread received from Him and His!... She makes the gesture of a hug even if it is not real because she can not hug him; after a few days  She disappeared...

Remembering all this is to make sure that it does not happen again, to make sure that all of us annihilate the winds of racism and religious fundamentalism that at this moment seem to blow on all over the world .

If you want to listen to this music, do it freely; for all my brief improvisation, on my left, this scene was always visible and real , two people in the night separated by a barbed wire and the gesture of a hug .... She will not stay there long , he will survive ...

Barbed wire

When I was very young, some of my relatives from northern Italy had given me a toy train ... the part I liked most was the locomotive, with which I invented great stories, great journeys to imaginary lands ... the dreams of a child ...
An old train, its locomotive, its travels in unknown and fantastic lands, memories and dreams ....

It is not a very cheerful music, but I can not be in this period (in Italy at the moment nobody is happy ...)but anyway even in this music and at this moment there is some hint of hope.

The old train

This impro was created on the occasion of the 4 note motif challenge of September proposed by Simon Reich on Piano Soundboard on FB. Good listening.
If you would like to see something :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VciCkpvd3xI&feature=share

The title of my cover  photo is "the hug"

Autumn leaves

I decided to make a medley of improvisations made in 2018 and 2019 but ... it is a particular medley: I listened to the improvisations again and I only included parts in which I remember being very excited while I was playing. I wanted somehow to fix in a precise time the moment of emotion expressed through the piano. The Medley is dedicated to all the people who want to express an important emotion through music because I don't think it's so obvious.
Dedicated to my Mother to which I owe the little I learned to do on the piano.

The Palm Flower II° (PIano Medley 2019)

In short ... many years ago I was in Aachen for professional reasons and I became friends with some German colleagues. It was a wonderful professional and humane experience. I was very fond of one of them because he had taught me many things. Discovering today, after 26 years that he died 2 years ago fighting a serious illness, was a painful experience for me. Just this year I sent him a friend request and I didn't understand why he didn't answer. In this song there are several memories, several events that relate to my stage in Aachen filtered through the sadness of today. I hope my musical thought can comfort him wherever he is.

Aachen

Dear Friends, it is useless, in my opinion,  to tell you about my state of mind and my soul in consideration of what is happening in Italy and other countries of the world. 
This impro  is dedicated to those who are fighting alone against the disease with a very heartfelt wish to heal.
 In it there is loneliness, it is true, but also some hope.
 Good luck to everyone and thanks to all the nations of our world who are helping us out.

Alone

Also this year 2020 the Piano Day  has arrived; but this year is particular  because our world is struggling and for once the battle is not of men against other men but of men against an illness. I decided to compose a simple music, made of sound but also of silence, the soundtrack of a reflection and a contrasting feeling that currently inhabits my thoughts.
Happy listening and good life to all! Thanks for your support over the years.

MUSIC TO SURIVE #pianoday2020

Music to survive ( Piano Day 2020)

A real improvisation in which space and time become one.
The space of a land to which one would like to return but end up not returning and the time now finished of an age that will never return.
This impro is dedicated to my great friend Luigi.

The space of one night

For this Christmas challenge I didn't want to play anything sweet and relaxing. Right now my mind is very focused on the frenzy of work that adds to the problems of the pandemic but also to the Christmas holidays that are coming. So my improvisation is for my mind a frantic awakening that sees me face a snowstorm on a sleigh pulled by horses used to this adventure. 
A sincere thanks and best wishes for a Happy Holidays to all of you and in particular to Simon Reich who organized the challenge.

A sleigh ride in the snow storm

I'm on SoundCloud from November 2015.
I'm just an amateur self taught pianist and composer, a lover of music and I'm glad to have discovered the planet SoundCloud and its interesting people.
Sometimes I compose something or I improvise a song , and if I like it i send it to SoundCloud to make it listen. I thank you for the time you want to devote to listen to my songs.

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