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'Scenes from the four seasons' is a collection of unreleased tracks and b-sides from 2012, running through the four seasons and stopping at some intimate moments in Winter, a tranquil evening in Autumn, two seaside scenes between Spring and Summer.

I decided to have all these tracks together in this collection not only because of the common theme, but above all because, when I started working on my first modern classical album, that will be released later this year, I didn't want to left all these works incomplete, even if they were mostly expression of ideas and style still imperfect and evolving.

I'm sure you'll find a moment of peace and tranquillity in these notes, and even some passages that represents your life during the seasons, an intimate moment, as when you're at home and the snow starts falling in winter, or when you first see the seaside in spring.

Thank you for taking time to listen to these songs. 
All your support is appreciated, especially in view of a strings recording session for the production of my new modern classical album.

Album artwork is "Restleness" by Agnès Caixas, photographer from Barcelona - Spain. Find her online at:

http://www.flickr.com/people/agnolia/

Follow the latest news about Halo at:

haloproject.co.uk 
Halο 
facebook.com/halosphere 
twitter.com/halotwtr

I take this chance to remind you that my previous EP, "Late Winter Tales", is still available at http://dewtonerecordings.com/album/halo-late-winter-tales-dtr013 and on the major internet music stores.

Thanks heartily for all your support.

released 03 March 2013 
All tracks Composed, Recorded and Mastered by Pasquale Riviezzo. 
© 2013, All Rights Reserved.

Halo - Scenes from the four seasons - 6.Interlude

At just 22 years of age, Italian prodigy Pasquale Riviezzo is one of the most promising talents we’re yet to feature in The Places Series. Playing the piano for over eleven years and the guitar for over six, you may know Pasquale from his lush ambient productions on Dewtone from 2012. But it’s here, amongst detailed field recordings, emotional scores and vivid instrumental journeys that Halo really shines as a talented composer.

His Places Series EP, titled ‘Song Of The Highest Tower’ captures what he describes as, “something very intimate and close to the artist’s personality and subjectivity” – something “incidental to the artist’s mind” or what some of us may simply call, creative expression. And as most us know, there’s no better way to bring this to life than a combination of enigmatic strings, poignant melodies and a heart-felt back story.

We’ve all experienced those moments when we capture a perfect image in our minds eye; those indelible scenes we can recall with perfect clarity. These snapshots might last a lifetime or disappear as quickly as they were realized but in that split-second, for composer Pasquale Riviezzo, it’s a preservation of a very personal kind.

“I usually travel from Milan to Naples for my university studies. These are images of places that I saw in a misty morning while I was on the train, that were fixed in my heart for a moment, mixed with flowing feelings and thoughts. They maybe became different places after that, but this is a story I’d like to tell you, through notes. It’s how a common place becomes intimate, and then a strangely isolated place.”

Inspired by transit and transcendence, misty mornings and fleeting connection, Pasquale’s EP is a collection that’s characterized by weighty piano chords, ethereal atmospheres and measured use of string to give tracks a melancholic focus. It allows ‘An Isolated Railway’ to drift along measured string and gentle piano, ‘Cloud Gate’ to swell with the soft vision of rolling Cumulus and the heavens opening, and the maudlin melody of ‘The Inner Realm’ to breathe through the dead space and atmosphere.

‘An Isolated Railway is the abandoned station you see through the window while you’re travelling to another town,” Pasquale explains. “It’s an isolated place, vanishing in the mist, where few voices are heard and a train is passing by, and The Inner Realm is am indefinite sequence of places, a continuous flow of emotions that paints a landscape in the air.”

‘Cloud Gate’ is when the gate of clouds opens wide and the rain starts falling and I’ll listen to ‘The Wastelands’ with closed eyes and see sounds painting a landscape in the imaginary space. I called that place ‘The Wastelands’ because it feels like a distant landscape brought back for a just moment, then, just like a dream, at the end you open your eyes and there’s no trace left. Just a subtle sensation of having been there, somewhere, sometime.”

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Song of the Highest Tower

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Halo - 5.Song Of The Highest Tower

I have always been fascinated by rain and a wet city scene in Zurich, Switzerland inspired me. It’s incredible how rain affects the view of a landscape; the soft mist just rising in the distance; the entire place suddenly taking on shades of blue and grey; the moving, undefined clouds in the sky. That entire place feels frozen in time, like a photo, a portrait.

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"With “Rain Says” we have an exquisite combination of strings, piano, and synths, which are bolstered by field recordings of rain, which are arranged in such a way as to faintly imply percussion. The explorations of dissonance and arrhythmic patterns coupled with beautiful melody and complementary string sections creates an interesting counterpoint, ripe with tension, which is relieved when the rain takes over again. A simply gorgeous track." - Igloo Magazine

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Double transparent blue vinyl + digital 
Catalogue number: ASIPV002
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Halo -  Rain Says

My second collaboration with http://soundcloud.com/myristica.  A warm track, a mix of chillout, ambient, piano electronica. Just let these sounds embrace you in the evening sunset! We hope you'll like it, this is for you. :)

Halo & Myristica - Forever Sunset

A preview of a new electronic/modern classical song, written in the occasion of  my next live show at Les Digitales Festival, Zurich.
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 © Pasquale Riviezzo, Halo - 2015

Stargazer

Halo - Stargazer

Evening. Sunset. Tokyo Haneda's Airport. Announcements, Lounges, Gate, Waiting. Boarding. Departure. Thoughts before Takeoff.
New *Halo's Single, "Haneda/Cleyra", available for free download @<a href="http://haloproject.bandcamp.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">haloproject.bandcamp.com</a>.
The two tracks are released in High Quality Format.

You can follow us on our new profiles @ 
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Fb:http://www.facebook.com/pages/Halo/109689762451211 

Thank you for listening. :)

Haneda

This is a piano arrangement of a beautiful song by myristica. Beyond the glow is a warm song, a lovely 3/4 piece that will surelywarm the cold days of your winter. I imagined listening to this at home,while out is raining and inside the hearth is lit, playing something atthe piano. So I thought it could fit well the song's spirit to give it aloose waltz feel in the central part, while letting the sensation fromthe sorrounding ambience emerge in the end, where the piano sound getslost in the atmosphere. I hope you'll like this arrangement, I tried to mantain the theme of beyond the glow, freely changing the end and thebeginning in a way that could fit the song well.

Follow us on	<a href="http://facebook.com/halosphere" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Fb</a>, <a href="http://twitter.com/halotwtr" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter</a>.
More news coming in the next days about the release of a new EP, 'Cleyra', and my first album, coming in 2012.

You can listen to more beautiful songs by <a href="http://soundcloud.com/myristica" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">myristica ♫</a> (including the original version of this song) at her Sc page (follow the link), and be updated on her latest news on <a href="http://www.facebook.com/myristica.chillout.music" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> Fb</a> or <a href="http://twitter.com/#%21/MeilingGrey" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter</a>.

I hope you'll enjoy this arrangement!
greetings from Milan,

Pasquale.

Beyond the glow [Piano]

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Mastered by Ludvig Cimbrelius
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Halo - Late Winter Tales - 2.Kiri

4th track from my new EP, "<a href="http://dewtone.bandcamp.com/album/halo-late-winter-tales-dtr013">Late Winter Tales</a>, now out on <a href="http://dewtonerecordings.com">Dewtone Recordings</a>. You can now download the EP in digital format at http://dewtone.bandcamp.com/, while it will be available in digital stores from May 15th.

More info about Halo at <a href="http://haloproject.co.uk">haloproject.co.uk</a>; follow our pages on <a href="http://facebook.com/halosphere">Facebook</a> or <a href="http://twitter.com/halotwtr">Twitter</a>for the latest news.

Mastered by Ludvig Cimbrelius.

Halo - Late Winter Tales - 4.Drift

This song is a collaboration with http://soundcloud.com/motohikohirami, who composed and played the beautiful guitar part in the middle. You can listen to a solo guitar version of this track here: http://soundcloud.com/motohikohirami/for-melancholy. :)

Pasquale Riviezzo: Piano, E.Piano, Organ, Ambience
Motohiko Hirami: Guitar

I hope you'll like it. :)

Also I wanted to write some news about my upcoming new EP "Late Winter Tales". It will be released soon by label Dewtone Recordings, and now it is being mastered by Ludvig Cimbrelius.

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For Melancholy

Halo & Motohiko Hirami - For Melancholy

This is a remix I made for Lullatone, a popular music group based in Nagoya, Japan, whose music is characterized by an innocent, child-like quality and spare, lo-fi sounds. It will be included in a compilation cd which will be released in China later this year. The track "A Slow Waltz" was originally released on 'Computer Recital' on Audio Dregs Recordings (2003).
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Lullatone are: Shawn James Seymour and Yoshimi Tomida. You can follow them at their website http://lullatone.com, or on facebook at http://www.facebook.com/lullatone.

Halo is a project of contemporary/electronic/ambient music by Pasquale Riviezzo, 21, Italy.
If you like our music follow us on <a href="http://facebook.com/halosphere">Facebook</a> for the latest news, or follow our blog at <a href="http://haloproject.co.uk/?cat=3">http://haloproject.co.uk/blog/</a>.

You can download this track for free clicking on the down arrow in the track bar.

Lullatone - A Slow Waltz (Halo Remix)

This is a very special version of a song which will be included in my "Late Winter Tales" EP. forthcoming on <a href="http://dewtonerecordings.com">Dewtone Recordings</a> May 15th. I rearranged the song in this version for piano and strings for some live shows I could start doing in Milan by the end of May... It is a short but moving song depicting an evening marine scene. I thought to share it with you. I hope you'll like it.

Pasquale

Mastered by Halo

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Painting by Ivan Aivazovsky. :)

Halo - Late Winter Tales - 10.Marine (Piano&Strings Version)

This is my 3rd piano arrangement of a lovely song by http://soundcloud.com/myristica, "Heart and Soul". This is a really heartfelt and lovely melody, so I'll let the music speak for me, this time. We hope you'll like this. :)

Pasquale

You can listen to the original version of this song by Myristica at: http://soundcloud.com/myristica/myristica-heart-and-soul. You can also follow her on facebook at http://www.facebook.com/myristica.music.

You can also follow us on <a href="http://facebook.com/halosphere">Facebook</a> or <a href="http://twitter.com/halostwtr">Twitter</a> for the latest news. :)

Halo - Heart and Soul [Piano]

Winter Lullaby is the opening and ending theme of Late Winter Tales, and really depicts the atmosphere of a snowy, wintry evening. It's a little and sweet lullaby.. wishing you goodnight. :)

Mastered by Ludvig Cimbrelius / http://soundcloud.com/alveol

Sunset

Halo - Late Winter Tales - 9.Winter Lullaby II

入梅 (Nyūbai) literally means Entering the Rainy Season (tsuyu(梅雨)) in Japanese; the season lasts in Japan from early June to mid July.
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Photo: "June Bokeh" by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/jonnystella/">Jonathan Spence</a>

Halo - Scenes from the four seasons - 2.Nyūbai

Track 8 from <a href="http://dewtone.bandcamp.com/album/halo-late-winter-tales-dtr013">Late Winter Tales</a> 

Late Winter Tales 

1.Winter Lullaby I [1.12]
2.Kiri [2.51]
3.Hollow City [7.52]
4.Drift [4.48]
5.Marine [3.20]
6.Angel [5.37]
7.Peace Loop [3.56]
8.Sunset [5.43]
9.Winter Lullaby II [1.46]
10.Marine [#] [3.12]

[Released - 15 May 2012]

About: Late Winter Tales is my first ep/album released on <a href="http://dewtonerecordings.com">Dewtone Recordings</a> in May 2012. Recreating an atmosphere of the last days of Winter, all the songs are immersed in an 'end of season' ambience; the end of the winter season is colourfully descripted, depicting snowy evenings but also focusing on the inside, painting emotions and feelings of the period, sounding timeless and human.

 Buy links: <a href="http://dewtone.bandcamp.com/album/halo-late-winter-tales-dtr013" target="_blank">Dewtone Recordings</a>, <a href="http://itunes.apple.com/en/album/late-winter-tales/id523010271" target="_blank">Itunes</a>, <a href="http://www.beatport.com/release/late-winter-tales/905892" target="_blank">Beatport</a>, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Late-Winter-Tales/dp/B007YZ8ABK" target="_blank">Amazon</a>, <a href="http://www.emusic.com/listen/#/album/halo/late-winter-tales/13352814/&quot;" target="_blank">Emusic</a>

Follow us on <a href="http://facebook.com/halosphere">Facebook</a>, <a href="http://twitter.com/halotwtr">Twitter</a>, or follow the blog at our official website http://haloproject.co.uk for the latest news! :)

Mastered by Ludvig Cimbrelius/Alveol
http://dewtonerecordings.com

Halo - Late Winter Tales - 8.Sunset

'Scenes from the four seasons' is a collection of unreleased tracks and b-sides from 2012, running through the four seasons and stopping at some intimate moments in Winter, a tranquil evening in Autumn, two seaside scenes between Spring and Summer. 

I decided to have all these tracks together in this collection not only because of the common theme, but above all because, when I started working on my first modern classical album, that will be released later this year, I didn't want to left all these works incomplete, even if they were mostly expression of ideas and style still imperfect and evolving.

However I'm sure you'll find a moment of peace and tranquillity in these notes, and even some passages that represents your life during the seasons, an intimate moment, as when you're at home and the snow starts falling in winter, or when you first see the seaside in spring.

Thank you for taking time to listen to these songs.
All your support is appreciated, especially in view of a strings recording session for the production of my new modern classical album.

Cover artwork is "Restleness" by Agnès Caixas, photographer from Barcelona - Spain. Find her online at:

http://www.flickr.com/people/agnolia/

Follow the latest news about Halo at:

haloproject.co.uk
soundcloud.com/haloproject
facebook.com/halosphere
twitter.com/halotwtr

I take this chance to remind you that my previous EP, "Late Winter Tales", is still available at http://dewtonerecordings.com/album/halo-late-winter-tales-dtr013 and on the major internet music stores.

Thanks heartily for all your support.

released 03 March 2013 
All tracks Composed, Recorded and Mastered by Pasquale Riviezzo. 
© 2013, All Rights Reserved.

Halo - Scenes from the four seasons - 13.Harvest

'Scenes from the four seasons' is a collection of unreleased tracks and b-sides from 2012, running through the four seasons and stopping at some intimate moments in Winter, a tranquil evening in Autumn, two seaside scenes between Spring and Summer. 

I decided to have all these tracks together in this collection not only because of the common theme, but above all because, when I started working on my first modern classical album, that will be released later this year, I didn't want to left all these works incomplete, even if they were mostly expression of ideas and style still imperfect and evolving.

However I'm sure you'll find a moment of peace and tranquillity in these notes, and even some passages that represents your life during the seasons, an intimate moment, as when you're at home and the snow starts falling in winter, or when you first see the seaside in spring.

Thank you for taking time to listen to these songs.
All your support is appreciated, especially in view of a strings recording session for the production of my new modern classical album.

Cover artwork is "Restleness" by Agnès Caixas, photographer from Barcelona - Spain. Find her online at:

http://www.flickr.com/people/agnolia/

Follow the latest news about Halo at:

haloproject.co.uk
facebook.com/halosphere
twitter.com/halotwtr

I take this chance to remind you that my previous EP, "Late Winter Tales", is still available at http://dewtonerecordings.com/album/halo-late-winter-tales-dtr013 and on the major internet music stores.

Thanks heartily for all your support.

released 03 March 2013 
All tracks Composed, Recorded and Mastered by Pasquale Riviezzo. 
© 2013, All Rights Reserved.

Halo - Scenes from the four seasons - 8.A Little Moment

Scenes from the four seasons

Sea and Sand

Halo - Sea and Sand

Scenes from the four seasons' is a collection of unreleased tracks and b-sides from 2012, running through the four seasons and stopping at some intimate moments in Winter, a tranquil evening in Autumn, two seaside scenes between Spring and Summer. 

I decided to have all these tracks together in this collection not only because of the common theme, but above all because, when I started working on my first modern classical album, that will be released later this year, I didn't want to left all these works incomplete, even if they were mostly expression of ideas and style still imperfect and evolving.

However I'm sure you'll find a moment of peace and tranquillity in these notes, and even some passages that represents your life during the seasons, an intimate moment, as when you're at home and the snow starts falling in winter, or when you first see the seaside in spring.

Thank you for taking time to listen to these songs.
All your support is appreciated, especially in view of a strings recording session for the production of my new modern classical album.

Cover artwork is "Restleness" by Agnès Caixas, photographer from Barcelona - Spain. Find her online at:

http://www.flickr.com/people/agnolia/

Follow the latest news about Halo at:

haloproject.co.uk
soundcloud.com/haloproject
facebook.com/halosphere
twitter.com/halotwtr

I take this chance to remind you that my previous EP, "Late Winter Tales", is still available at http://dewtonerecordings.com/album/halo-late-winter-tales-dtr013 and on the major internet music stores.

Thanks heartily for all your support.

released 03 March 2013 
All tracks Composed, Recorded and Mastered by Pasquale Riviezzo. 
© 2013, All Rights Reserved.

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