“Le Ombre Lunghe” (”Long Shadows”) is a record for afternoons. Not for twilight, but for afternoons.
The music on this record is well-contemplated; I would invite you to listen to it more than once, several times, perhaps at an empty stomach and from the room next door, so that chance gets a chance.
For several reasons, this is a double work: it stems from my long experience in working on music from the oral tradition and on how cultivation may corrupt it;
you will find music conceived for myself and executed, in fact, just by me, but also a number of pieces for ensemble, made up of carefully chosen musicians and improvisers;
the music is abstract, but at the same time it has been conceived around images or visions;
and in the end, some of it, I would like to listen to again and, perhaps even, re-write, sooner or later…
Album Notes byAntonello Paliotti
English translation by Mike van der Vijver