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Subterraneans is composed by recordings collected between
December 1999 and February 2002.
It is a solo album, made of what could be called
"private music".
The first two tracks I composed for this project are "Su
me" and "Gio's Lake"; as you can easily understand, they
have been recorded on a common stereo tape, with no overdubs or editing.
They are representing the "urgence" there was behind my certain
need of music.
At that time I was introduced to Roberto Zorzi, who was given
that tape as a visit card from the friend Frank Moreno. Roberto listened
to those tracks and liked to meet me.
Meeting Roberto meant to be exposed to the american and
european improvising scene. Until that time "improvisation" was
just a sort of composing way I had been using since the beginning of my
musical life; I had no idea there could be a whole world gathering around
of it.
That step was important to find a self-consciousness of my musical
identity. Improvisation (that in many cases can become
"conceptual", therefore showing its both positive and negative
aspects) is for me nor a method, nor a faith; it is an explorative method
and, more often, the mood for getting a very deep contact with myself.
Meeting and sharing time and music with some of the most important
improvisors has been a great human and creative experience that gave me
energy to dive deeper into my language.
This cd is the sign of a real beginning.
As you can see, on this website there's almost no trace of my
musical activity together with the bands I had before 1999, the year when
I left all of them.
Subterraneans (and this website as well) is gathering the feeling of my first solo
recordings (The Room and Solo Works) and is somelike the real me coming to
surface. I had played this kind of music since 1984 but I never thought
there could be a place for it, so I kept it as "private
recording".
Subterraneans has been the medium that put me in contact with
musicians I am honoured to collaborate with now.
People like Steve Lawson, Markus Stockhausen, Fabrizio
Ottaviucci, Claude Voit, Rick Walker....
Originally, the first title I thought for Subterraneans was "a life
from the inside".
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