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Onde

from Rinascita by Paolo Cognetti

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Onde (Waves)

I was twenty years old; the next day would have been my sister’s birthday and, as it happens, I waited until the last minute to get her a present. To her, I decided to dedicate one of my piano improvisations that I recorded the same night to give her the next day - I gave it a generic title: Winter Sea. Several years later, I found this recording and I listened to it again with great curiosity. The second part of the composition, Onde, impressed me so deeply that I wanted to get it on score. It is the most meditative of my pieces, all of it focused on an ordinary experience that I really love: being by the sea. The principal musical element evokes the characteristic movement of the water on the shore. The piece alternates between moments where the hands are at different ends of the piano’s register - a little like when the eye embraces the entire width of the landscape - and moments where the hands are close to each other evoking focus on a detail: a rock, the foam, a transparency. The constant utilization of the pedal creates a multitude of resonances very close to the natural reflections produced by water. The color of the sea changes partially because the weather conditions are changing, for instance a cloud appearing or the sun going down, and partially because the way we look at it changes. The sea is the greatest mirror of our soul and so the music alternates bright and Apollonian sections with darker ones (almost threatening omens) to other sections of transition in which, as often happens in life, it is not possible to establish what prevails, and what imposes itself is, if anything, the awareness of complexity.

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from Rinascita, released June 2, 2017
Music Composed and Performed by Paolo Cognetti
Produced by Lawrence Fancelli and Paolo Cognetti
Recorded and Mixed by Lawrence Fancelli at Officina Sonora del Bigallo
Mastered by Tommy Bianchi at White Sound Mastering
Mastering Assistant: Niccolo Caldini
Fashion Designer and Stylist: Erica Marigliani
Photography: Andrea Cresci
Artwork: WOS UP
Label: Osb Records
Publishing: Warner Chappell Music Italiana
Digital delivery: Artist First
Legal Aid: Mario Palazzi
Press Office: Pixie Promotion - Raffaella Tenaglia
Management and Booking: Aurelio Colucci

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