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)

It is not easy to describe this impro generated by the desire to participate in the Color challenge created by Simon Reich. My sensation was that of an impro with a mysterious flavor and hypnotic character but centered on distant memories and at times contrasting such as the harmonies used.

Blue memories

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

For  Christmas Challenge  Piano Soundboard 2021 I prepared a remastering of one of my improvisations dedicated to Christmas. Merry Christmas to You All!

Snowballs ( Christmas  2021  Piano Soundboard)

I'm back to play piano ... unfortunately my soul has returned to travel in the present bringing with it ghosts of a bad past never lived in first person and the pieces of a hoped for future that is now completely shattered by an unbearable present. During my unpretentious improvisation, everything we are experiencing now has passed in my eyes ....
An impro dedicated to the Ukrainian people and their suffering.

Back to the present

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)

My new impro with some dissonant moments induced by my current state of mind. Wind, sun and sand are the ingredients of this fast improvisation, almost a quick scream of the soul seeking rest.

Wind In the desert

It is useless to use words to describe the dance of  notes ..

Dance of notes

Dawn in Beirut

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)

"My Sicily, desperate pain
It renews for you in the memory.
Youth. I see the happy follies lost
and friends wonderful
Oh heaven from which I was expelled!
It's worth remembering your brightness? "

Ibn Hamdis, Syracuse (Sicily) 1056- (Mallorca) 1133

"And I losing my country I have lost myself;
I had to leave the country where I was born,
where I spent my youth ...
Only one place is closed for me:
my own country, Russia "

Sergej Rachmaninov, 1873 (Novgorod, Russia) - 1943 (California)

The nostalgia of their land and the desire of an impossible retourn  seem to make similar two great artists, an arab sicilian poet of the year 1000 and one of the greatest composers and piano virtuosos of all time.
Two people certainly different, but united by the great nostalgia to the land of origin.

All this, in this afternoon, forced me to this unpretentious piano improvisation. I decided to play because it reminds me  the strong sense of longing that unites many people who have left their homeland to build a future elsewhere (somehow like me)

Thanks to all who will listen and who will not listen.
I must thank once again  my dear friend  Veikko Viljanen (recorder and sound designer of this my live midi sequence) that employed a virtual Grand Bluethner Model One ( with some his personal modification of sound) .
I repeat that this absolutely disinterested contribution is for me an example of good collaboration between people belonging to different geographical and cultural realities.
And I repeat  that we need to build bridges between peoples, not walls....

Photos: sicilian beach  where I have spent my summers for almost 40 years

Nostalgia and desire to come back (with the collaboration of Veikko Viljanen (Finland)

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

An atrocious crime has taken away many lives
A device powered by a man not attached to life
A group of vile beasts who can not appreciate the beauty of life
and that they manipulate other poor human beings...

A thin wind, a dark and dirty wind, is the background to these notes
The lives of so many young people flow out of their veins ...

I am very worried about the world we are building....

Unfortunately this evening our souls are much heavier than other days!
A spontaneous improvisation, full of rage and pain as a sincere hug to all the families of the victims with some moments of gentle sympathy. ....

Fire ignoble

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

Water and fire coexist in people who have great passions, great goals. This improvisation that is the 4th part of Alcantara is devoted to the Middle-East, the homeland of the impetus of the passions but also of the flowing slow and quiet of thoughts and reflections.
Hope is that of a healthy integration among the peoples of the whole world.

Alcantara: water and flame (fourth part)

Another terrible tragedy for humanity today ....

The weeping of the world

A free improvisation in classical style after an important mental effort looking at an imaginary landscape consisting of an immense sea.
This improvisation is dedicated to my dear friend Ashot Danielyan (great russian composer and pianist). I recommend everyone to listen to his music.

Cover Photo: the sea of a coast in the north of Holland.

After the effort...

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 evening my improvisation was made for Two Chord Challenge on FB. It is an impro that tries to depict two flowers, on a beautiful day, sometimes shaken by the wind, always agreeing in their movement. So... for me a relaxing vision that we often need.

Two flowers

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)

This is an impro ....wild, spontaneous....with different parts both from the rhythmic and melodic point of view. In this period of time that we are living it is easier to dig inside oneself and in fact this impro is born from the true soul of the black kite, that's why I named it the flight of the black kite.
In it, the Black Kite is confronted with the reality of flight, with the continuous changes of air currents, with the greatest heights and with peaks almost to the ground, also granting some moments of quiet flight during which to look at the panorama in front of himself but also the one inside him.
Dear Friends, it is clear that minimalism is not the piano style I like best. I don't believe in the technique as an end in itself (also because what little I learned alone cannot be called technique!) But I like to use several piano registers at the same time in the same song even if sometimes ... the piano gets out of control !!

Black kite flying

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

Remembering for me is like climbing up and down a staircase: memories await you at every step, beautiful and sad, pleasant and terrible, like life. 
As you go up or down the staircase you sometimes slow down and linger sometimes you run to reach a good memory or to escape from an unpleasant memory.

This is a  spontaneous composition  for the Piano Soundboard's "No Chord Challenge."   A piece of music had to be composed  in which no 2 notes are played together (i.e. No chords or intervals). This included left hand notes and their relation to right hand notes. 

I decided to compose a piece of music for the left hand only.

cover photo: detail of a temple in Baktapur (Nepal) (personal archive)

The staircase of memories ( left hand only)

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

The great river of life ... tonight a complex improvisation with many ideas to end this infernal year in the best possible way ... to honor it anyway ... life like a river, sometimes calm and clear, sometimes impetuous and overwhelming ....
Good start of 2021 to you all.

The great river of life

Tonight an improvisation dedicated to music, the piano, the engaging sound of this instrument and the dance that the notes manage to create in my mind while I play.

Moon ray

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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