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/