One Man Band - Revox A77 - Experimental
These songs are the pinnacle of my musical "non-career".
I confess I was thrilled when I listened to them again and I found value and a bit of talent in them.
Thinking about the scarcity of the means available (the only two channels of the Revox and the medieval trick of sound on sound, the cheap musical instruments - neither Gibson nor Fender - my voice and a phaser as the only special effect), the result and the feeling they convey are well above my memories.
With what little pride I have left, I affirm that these are small masterpieces that have not been affected at all by the passage of time and this is not a small thing after fifty years.
In video editing I have tried to give the maximum achievable from stock video.
Enjoy it!
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1 September '76
Why this piece is called so I have not the faintest idea, but it is in any case one of the most beautiful things I have written and performed.
Keyboards, bass, guitar, percussion and even the filtered and phaser-shaped voice helped to create a work of great vigor, vigor that I tried to render visually as well.
The perspective that no longer exists
A note on this music video that has had a really curious and unpredictable gestation so much that it deserves this box.
The unpredictable designs of the time
I composed and played all the instruments in this piece of music around 1976.
In the end you hear whistling. But it's still me in 2000 when I digitized the Revox tapes and I didn't realize I had left the computer microphone on.
I composed the text (it is the opening words of a novel of mine that is still being written) in 2019.
I visually represented music and text in February 2022 to participate in the "Corti di long vita" competition.
It took me 44 years, I hope it was worth it.
Friuli '76
On 6 May 1976 a terrible earthquake struck Friuli. The quake, felt throughout Northern Italy, mainly hit 77 Italian municipalities with damage, albeit much more limited, for a total population of about 80,000 inhabitants, causing, in Italy alone, 990 deaths and over 45,000 homeless.
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I was very impressed and even tempted to volunteer during the rescue.
Which I didn't do. Instead I composed this piece in one go, which I think reflects the drama of those days well.
The falsetto voice in the finale, incredible but true, is mine.
June '77
Undoubtedly a minor piece, but still appreciable in terms of lightness.
The vocalizations were not very successful.
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Pater noster (1977)
I am always a Catholic and, once, also much more practicing than today.
It was certainly a tribute to my faith, I don't know how forced, as it appears in the finale.
For the most part it remains enjoyable and in some passages, even though I know I'm dripping all over me, it borders on the masterpiece (at least for my taste).
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IV piece (1977)
A musically very beautiful piece.
Unfortunately the recording is a bit marred by some ambient noises that I was unable to eliminate in post-production.
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Pater noster (1977)
I am always a Catholic and, once, also much more practicing than today.
It was certainly a tribute to my faith, I don't know how forced, as it appears in the finale.
For the most part it remains enjoyable and in some passages, even though I know I'm dripping all over me, it borders on the masterpiece (at least for my taste).
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Pater noster (1977)
I am always a Catholic and, once, also much more practicing than today.
It was certainly a tribute to my faith, I don't know how forced, as it appears in the finale.
For the most part it remains enjoyable and in some passages, even though I know I'm dripping all over me, it borders on the masterpiece (at least for my taste).
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