Momenti di composizione in studio con Beppe Crovella per Ultreia

Composing Sessions with Beppe Crovella

“Nuvole di ieri” (Clouds of Yesterday) was the first album with a “band” and it was released on the Electromantic Music label of Beppe Crovella. The album was inspired by a youthful experience, in particular a long journey of more than one month all over Europe. Initially the album was simply called “Il viaggio” (The Journey), a title that the label refused because of the new project of Aldo Tagliapietra that would be called the same, then I thought to call it “L’uomo di pietra, il vecchio e il fantasma del musicista” (The man of stone, the old man and the ghost of the musician) who are the three key characters involved in the story, but the title was too long. In the end the one who suggested the title “Nuvole di ieri” was just Beppe Crovella after reading the sentence that the painter Franco Cilia recites on the finale. In accordance with the original title, “Nuvole di ieri” is about a journey, and every word is borrowed from the thoughts I wrote down along the road and that, when I was back home, I had the foresight to copy on my personal journal. There are poems, fleeting impressions, psychedelic intuitions where music represents the progressive legacy that I was bringing in me and that for the first time I could express at the best of my abilities thanks to the contribute of the band: Riccardo’s drums, Marco’s guitar and the masterful arrangements by Beppe Crovella featuring vintage keyboards have made of it an ensemble work. Despite some ingenuities it is a very important album for me since it was deeply inspired. You can find in it all the feelings of my twenties: the urge to be accepted by friends, the need to believe in something higher in order to better face the fear of a world different from the dreamy one that my mother had always talked about, and yet the desire for a love that transcends every boundary and the road, friend and life companion, a symbol of spirituality on the move.

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“Linea di confine” (Boundary line) is perhaps my most inspired album and the most personal as well. The band contributed in a delicate way, without changing anything (as opposed to the previous works), the result is an album halfway between Randone as a band and Randone as a songwriter. In this album there was no need to change pitch or time every minute, or to indulge in long guitar solos at 180bpm or in double bass parts in quarters with a drum upbeat in 6/8. “Linea di confine” was made with the heart, it’s a concept album that tells about the troubles provoked by the end of a love and at the same time explores the human mind in those imbalances that today hectic life can cause. To understand the music you should also read the book of the same name released in a collector’s edition.

Very special guests on the album are BEPPE CROVELLA, that’s producing RANDONE for its own indipendent label, ELECROMANTIC MUSIC and also GIUSEPPE SCARAVILLI, from Malibran.

La Caduta Della Mia Stella

22 Aprile

Buona Notte

Dovresti Non Scordare

Linea Di Confine

Singles and unreleased is a collection of singles and alternative version of Randone’s songs released only in digital format.

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4. Sguardo Verso Il Cielo (Unreleased - Le Orme Cover)

3. Runo 49 (From Kalevala - Randone & Tempore)

… what inspired the creation of this CD is intimately linked to the innate spirit of the narrator – Our Young Artist – who, in the aftermath of his two trips along the famous Pilgrim’s Way to Santiago, following the yellow arrows that mark it, had the need to tell his experience to the whole world.

The path, measuring nearly 1000 km, winds its way through France and Spain, providing impressive landscapes, from the peaks of the Pyrenees to Finisterre (Finis Terrae, End of the World) on the Atlantic coast of Galicia, an autonomous region in North-West of Spain.

Santiago, capital of Galicia, is better known for its cathedral – Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela – , built on the place where the tomb of the Apostle James the Greater was discovered (the name Compostela derives from Campos Tellum, land of burial; ninth century AD). In 1985, UNESCO declared the pilgrimage, or spiritual journey, “World Heritage”, officially calling it “El Camino de Santiago”. It is said that the first pilgrims in the Middle Age walked on el Camino by night, guided only by the starlights. These lights were able to evoke and instill in them an otherworldly spirituality that would oblige them to turn their eyes to the sky, entirely charmed by the “Milky Way”, while pointing to their destination: Santiago de Compostela ( = Campus Stellae, meaning Field of Stars).

Hasta La Vista, Diego

Soy Peregrino

Mariposas

La Cabra Negra

Randone is a progressive rock band that comes from Sicily.
At present, the band is formed by: Nicola Randone (Lead Vocals, acoustic guitar and keys), Marco Crispi (el. guitar), Maria Modica (vocals), Livio Rabito (bass and vocals), Riccardo Cascone (drums) and has signed with Electromantic Music by Beppe Crovella

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