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When I posted the first recording of HOPE it was May 3, 2020: the next day the restrictions, after two interminable months, would finally be loosened. I wrote, «We will not go back to normal, but it is something... HOPE is the key word now, intended, however, as a dynamic process that emerges from the ruins and actively projects itself into the future, not expectation then but trustful action». It still took a long time, in fact, to go back to normal, and frankly today I wonder whether it makes sense to use this expression, which, after all, implies the idea of the pandemic as an expulsion from Eden, the breakdown of an initial state of substantial well-being, or more trivially the usual cliché of we were better off before. The immense tragedy of disease and death has not made our lives worse than it has revealed weaknesses and miseries already there. Nor, unfortunately, has it made us all that much better, as was repeatedly hoped for then: indeed, it is quite evident, today more than ever with a war that exploded a year ago in the heart of Europe, the inability to direct our destiny toward "the prodigy of life in peace, of life tuned to a lost harmony whose distant echo can comfort our hearts" (M. Zambrano). But a breach has opened, and a faint light has begun to illuminate areas once in shadow revealing the vast field of unrealized potential. This is not the confident waiting of a favorable event, a passive standing by, but confident action towards a goal: HOPE.

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hope

compatto vuoto
quasi illusione di assenza
il tempo dell’isolamento
mostra il suo volto imperioso
martellano i tasti di un piano
come un tempio di antiche campane
memoria d’infanzia in festa
a scandire il tempo

non più in attesa
un varco si apre
fra gli anfratti del presente

marea dolcemente impetuosa
su spiagge luccicanti di macerie
dilaga rincorre se stessa
lontana vicina
con schiuma irridente
quieta nell’ultimo lembo
si arrotonda in cerchi accoglienti
onde di campane
scandiscono un’ebbrezza gioiosa

il passo ora è veloce
a inseguire una luce

sottile e tenace
il filo della speranza

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from Spring Will Come, track released March 15, 2023
Music composed and performed by Paolo Cognetti

Recorded and Mixed by Filippo Rossi and Lawrence Fancelli at Officina Sonora del Bigallo

Mastered by Niccolò Caldini

Digital distribution: Distrokid

Artwork: Dashti Design Studio

Poem: Maria Ester Mastrogiovanni (MEM)

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Paolo Cognetti Florence, Italy

Ciao, I'm happy you found me here!

I just released my album for piano solo Spring Will Come: conceived as an aural space for listeners to feel safe and connect with their own emotions, it's a journey through the first lockdown back in March 2020, when we all experienced fear, boredom and frustration but also courage, strength and hope.

It’s music only when it’s shared: let’s make some together! ... more

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