Paolo Paliaga

Paolo Paliaga – Alboran Solo: The Wind Is Coming (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:46 minutes | 830 MB | Genre: Contemporary Jazz, Piano Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Da Vinci jazz

Why a solo piano album? I answer this question by telling what this experience represented for me. In solo piano, all three elements of music – rhythm, harmony and melody – are concentrated in the pianist’s hands; more than on them, however, they depend on his artistic maturity, on his vision and on his aesthetical approach to the world. Harmony has a fascinating logic of its own. In the pieces’ composition, it allows for emotional itineraries which are discovered at the same moment of the composition. This is a mystery and a revelation which engenders torment and satisfaction at the same time. To encounter a progression which reveals itself in the act of its research is a gesture leading to enchantment and emotion. Rhythm is the foundation of vitality, it is ”swing”, it is beat, primeval movement, pulse, dance, the moving of things. There are many ways to express rhythm, not just one; thus, every piece possesses its own beat, and all beats must reach the listener.

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