"Barcarolle" is a composition by my former piano teacher: Jan Oczkowski.

He originally composed the main melody as a pedagogic piece for his students, but I always loved its simple yet exciting theme and decided to create an arrangement in my style as a tribute to him.

Traditionally, a barcarolle is a folk song sung by Venetian gondoliers, or a piece of music composed in that style, which is characterized by a rhythm reminiscent of the gondolier's stroke, almost invariably in 6/8 meter at a moderate tempo.

Listen to this and other solo Piano tracks here:
open.spotify.com/playlist/1mxDCrD8X0GIGdewoakcXh

Barcarolle

L'Armor (last version).mp3

“Time passes, spaces convert. Nothing can stop the Changes."

Silvano Pagliuca-Mena

Changes

"La Tarabita"
Dedicated to Anna Mena

La Tarabita is a Flamenco-Tango dedicated to the Pagliuca-Mena brothers's mother, Anna Mena, who is herself a dancer of Spanish music.

It's at the same time a dream come true for the brothers because since they were kids in Venezuela, they always dreamt of the Flamenco legend Jorge Pardo (flutist with Chick Corea, Paco de Lucía, etc.) recording this exact tune with them. 

They recorded the Piano, Bass and Drums, while still in Maracaibo, around 2014. The bass player was Silvano's double bass teacher at the Conservatory, Elvis Martínez, one of Venezuela's most important musicians, now based in Miami USA.

In 2018 the Pagliuca-Mena brothers moved to Madrid where they met Jorge Pardo through Flamenco percussionist "El Guille". 

In 2021 Silvano met flamenco guitarist Pepe Carmona as they worked together in the same music school and started to collaborate musically including Angelo.

In 2023 Angelo showed his composition to Pardo and he accepted to participate in it, so, after almost 9 years the dream of having Pardo record the flute for them became reality.


-Jorge Pardo (flute)
-Pepe Carmona (guitar)
-Silvano Pagliuca-Mena (piano)
-Elvis Martínez (bass)
-Angelo Pagliuca-Mena (drums)


Original composition by Angelo Pagliuca-Mena
Recorded between 2014 (in Maracaibo VE) and 2023 (in Madrid ES)

Cover Art: Jesús "Ciù" Servigna

www.PagliucaMenaMusic.com

La Tarabita

the third single from the second album by a Lesser Version
lyrics

For Years Upon Years Upon Years...

There is a plaza at the shore of the Maracaibo Lake, where the Bella Vista and Milagro avenues unite in the center of Maracaibo. Since kids, sometimes Ange and Silv used to sit there to watch the waves.
This composition is named after it, the "La Plaza del Buen Maestro" ("The Square of the Good Master").

La Plaza del Buen Maestro

La Plaza Del Buen Maestro [piano solo, 2024]

A Souvenir from Hiratsuka by German composer Betina Müller.

Piano version: Silvano Pagliuca-Mena

Cover drawing: Nicolás Pinto Gómez

2024

Souvenir De Hiratsuka

"Just Friends" is a popular song that has become a jazz standard. The song was written in 1931 by John Klenner with lyrics by Sam M. Lewis.
This solo piano version was recorded by Silvano Pagliuca-Mena in 2024.

Drawing: Nicolás Pinto Gómez (2023)