Name: Changes by Silvano Pagliuca-Mena in ENTIRE INBOX: Batch 472
Duration: 1 min 41 s
Description: “Time passes, spaces convert. Nothing can stop the Changes."

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"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.

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Barcarolle

You & I

It's been 7 years since the first song for the album was written, the first in my life. 3 years since we started recording these songs. It's a long way to go. And complicated. It led me to where I am now. I am convinced that everything happens when it should. Now is the time when I became ready to present the pieces of my soul, made into music, to the whole world. 

5 songs are like 5 fragments from a personal diary: naive and overly romanticizing and dramatizing events. But that's how I am, that's how I feel. In my own world, everything was exactly as described in the songs. 

But these are only fragments. The full diary is an album of 12 songs that make up a complete story, called Worlds Apart, I'm sure it won't take so long to wait this time.

The opening track - Light - embodies a bright beginning in every sense. The first affection, the first song, the first guitar, the first step into a new life. It's still special to me, and in fact, I probably like it most of all these songs in terms of sound. When we started recording it, it turned out to be quite melancholic and unhurried, and as for me, it sounded cool, but I was prompted and also guessing myself, that it would be good to make it kind of more up-tempo, I wanted to find a balance, and I am very pleased with the way we made it.

As part of this EP, Circles is a sharp rewind of events forward. This is no longer "Now I finally see the light", but "You will only make me suffer, whether you want it or not." There was no doubt about how this song should sound: definitely more rock and expressive compared to the others.

New Chapter: "And after all this time and songs, it’s the first one about something real that you and me feel." It’s true that a lot of songs had already been written at the time of writing this one. The first reciprocity. At least for a while. I had thoughts that maybe a lot of repeatings in the song would seem boring to a listener, but I no longer think so about what it turned out, especially thanks to Ruzel's backing vocals, which really enlivened it.

In the process of keeping a diary, one page was torn out. This is You Make Me Feel (Higher), the third song I wrote. At one point, it began to seem not good enough to me, and I excluded it from tracklist of the future album. However, later, while recording this EP, I decided to give it a new life, changing it a little, and the missing link was found, becoming such a bonus track. Someone even liked it the most.

Affection is the track that has already become landmark. The last song on this EP and on the upcoming longplay. At the same time, it was the first one that we began to rehearse, record and play in public. Someone has already had enough of it, but not me, I still consider it one of the best songs I ever wrote. "I made everyone believe in a perfect explanation. Now I don’t know how to feel, cause it seems like it is real, but I have the same affection." Thus, we return to the same place from where we started, but with a new awareness: love, suffering - all for the sake of art.

It was decided to make an acoustic version of the song, different from the version on the future album, as in the case of the previous song - for a change. But not only for that. I really like how this melody is combined with a tambourine. And in general, I'm glad that at least one song became more or less minimalistic, because the rest are too full of sounds, one might say noisy. At least we got what we did, due to the first experience and the tendency of both musicians to complicate everything:) And it's funny that now, with more experience, I’m going to move in the direction of simplification.

Anyway, I'm very happy to finally share the music of my heart with you and hope it will resonate with someone!

Light

L'Armor (last version).mp3

Rising Tide

....mkay

sorry for the quality, left my mic at home so recorded through my laptop

Mr Mackey

mr mackey

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

Silvano Pagliuca-Mena

Changes

Slow Boat To China

"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)

Just Friends [piano version]

desescalada

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Changes

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