Sicilitune for Piano
Composer & Piano Valentina Grisafi

Sicilitudine Bronze Medal Global Music Awards 2021- Los Angeles (USA)/ Ibla Grand Prize 2023

"Sundown in Samaris"
Valhjim

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Valhjim’s Sundown in Samaris is a luminous soundscape that breathes with the pulse of a city at twilight. Intricate sequencer patterns weave through the air, entwined with counterpointed voices that rise and fall like echoes against unseen corridors. The first movement is a kinetic tapestry of interlocking melodies and shifting rhythms, propelling the listener forward through a labyrinth of sound, where music becomes architecture and time bends like refracted light.

Then comes the descent—a hushed, spectral transition into stillness. Shimmering chords, ghostly vocal harmonies, and the plaintive voice of an electric guitar float over a river of sound, evoking the quiet murmur of water at dusk. In this delicate interplay of motion and reflection, Sundown in Samaris becomes more than a composition; it is an immersive meditation on light, shadow, and the ephemeral beauty of the fading day.

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Hope you like this piece, friends.

Thanks for listening
and for your always kind and candid words.

Valhjim

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Sundown in Samaris

a wall against all these forces, who try to destroy democratic rules and human rights

Die Brandmauer

I had fun improvising this quickly. I have many more variations and song ideas so I will be working on refining and expanding this.

Feels like a gentle stroll through autumn countryside as the wind bites and the drizzle clings in the air.

Falling Leaves (Very Early Idea)

It should be illegal for parents to move away if a child has to lose a best friend.

New Jersey Winters

Psychedelic (2024) Anthology CD1 Track 15

В Дзеркалі (кавер-версія)

From the the video "Silent Hill f Doesn't Know What It Wants to Be" on the Sav channel

Loss & Respite

This song was originally an installment of my Elements album, where I characterize different elements in electronic music, it literally contained the lyric "heart of steel" – but it's since then super detached, so I'm releasing It as a single.
I think I approached the See Luci concept through a METAL guitar but added silly synth arpeggios, which I think is a hallmark for me to bring the two together.

Lyrics:
I
Care
About
You

I want you around
With me
I want to be
Next to you

Why
Don't You
Let me in

Heart of Steel

This is music for the chapter titled "The Value of a Letter" in the book being written "Inside the Forbidden Outside' due out by the end of the year.  The book is about the life of Jamie Cummings, who has been incarcerated for for 14 years - a gentle man with epilepsy who has never been allowed to touch his son even one time.  The book is about the injustice and racism of our prison system in the US.

Silence Is So Loud

Valhjim is a music composer with an eclectic approach to different genres: rock, pop, folk, New Age, and experimental electronic music. Greatly driven by imagination and poetic imagery, he combines multiple instrumental textures to fire the imagination of his listeners. 

His more experimental ambience and electronic music is built with layers of suggestive sound textures, rhythms, and melodic lines that stir the imagination into suggestive imagery and worlds unseen, true architectures of sound that open up limitless spaces to explore. Often Valhjim's melodies sail through genre thresholds, crossing over from one genre to another, from neo classcal to electronic, or from jazz to rock or new age.