This recording has been taken on June 30th 2015, in Bratislava in a beautiful, somehow magical hall, the National Radio Slovak Hall.
What I like about this concert is that it perfectly represents my music: what I have been doing, the piano solo, the strings and all my beloved melancholy i try to put in notes. But it also gives a glimpse on what i am exploring these days: live electronics, sequencing old synths, drum machines, all together with my piano.
This record is a "bridge" somehow, between what I have been doing in the past and the territories I am exploring right now. I hope you will enjoy it.
Some notes on some on the previously unreleased tracks:
- Always Let It Go: it's an improvised piece of music, which now is quite often the opening song of my concerts.
For all you music-gears-nerd out there, the main loop of the song has been taken sequencing my vintage ARP Odyssey.
- Carpathian Mountains: this song has been composed thinking of the concert I was going to held in Bratislava. It's a new piano solo piece (yes, I am still composing piano solos!) and it's inspired by the beauty of the Slovakia's Capital.
- One Way: this is the main theme of my first official OST. It will be included in the "One Way" movie, directed by Aaron Thomas which hopefully will see the ligth in 2016, together with my OST album.
- Untitled (Lost Letters): not exactly an unreleased piece of music, since it belongs to my "Morning Sketches" EP, but for the first time on an "official" record. It is deeply linked to the following one - these two pieces of music represents the past and the present of my exploration in music.
- On the sky, the planets and everything above us: I am playing all the instruments I have on stage on this one.
- As far as I know: bonus track, unreleased track. The first I composed by mixing live electronics to my piano.
- Summer nights (reprise): another piano solo piece, developed following the leading harmonic texture of Summer Nights.
- Autumn Stories Suite: both the CD and the Vinyl version of this Suite are not interrupted, while playing. The intent is to bring what I believe are the best episodes of my Autumn Stories album to let the audience feel the Autumn Season, even if we were (in that case) in plain Summer. I have re-arranged Week #3, Week #10 and Week #12 and they sound different (hopefully better) than the original ones.