Work-work-work for me these days. Plus 3h total commuting time. Seems like I'm back to the fractal mold. My only escape is music. Music leads me to somewhere else, where I can truly be. Is it the same for you?
This piece comes from that somewhere else. I brought it with me out of my night wakes and my night dreams. I called it "kezɘʞ," which means "hands" in Hungarian. It's a Presto Agitato for jazz piano trio. Would you mind telling me what you think of it? If so, I thank you.
This is quite a productive time for me -- I've already released several new pieces. I plan to reach a total of 20 or so before issuing a new album. But I already know that its title will be "Shards," and that this very piece will be the last track on that album. It's a little piece for piano and Kauaʻi ʻōʻō bird. The last of its species.
The picture I have chosen is the one I posted yesterday. It shows a shrew that I encountered at the lake of Rotselaar, Belgium. Those were the days of the great, unexpected flood of July 2021.
It was a peculiar and in some ways disconcerting time; nature seemed to have taken repossession of so many places, such as in fact the Rotselaar lakes. Against a desolate backdrop, there I met that little shrew. No need to taming it -- like us, he seemed rather surprised and confused. Perhaps he was looking for his burrow, I don't know. I wonder how the last man on earth will feel. Maybe s/he will sing one last song, who knows.
It begins in neoclassical style, for piano solo. The piano is then joined by double bass and then by drums, which give it a more jazzy, sparkling tone.
This is "Amìnue". In the dialect of Bari, my home town, it means almond (in Greek, "amygdale"). It's a piece for guitar, acoustic bass, contrabass, piano, percussion, and Tidal Cycles.
Here I play the splendid Epiphone Casino VS of my friend Rudi and the acoustic bass that I have recently bought from my friend Paul. Apologies for the imperfections.
The logo, depicting a particular of the almond bread fractal, is by Christian Rowell from Pixabay, pixabay.com/illustrations/fractal-almond-bread-art-orange-art-984968/
Wonderful reddit post pointing out something Mingus wrote in 1955... "It seems so hard for some of us to grow up mentally just enough to realize that there are other persons of flesh and bone, just like us, on this great, big earth..."