Thursday, May 28, 2009

Quello che tu sei (it's what you are)

Quello che tu sei
quello che tu vuoi
quello che non hai
quello che tu fai
quello che verrà
quello che è già
quello che non và
quello che non ha....

quello che non è
quello che non sa
quello che sarà
quello che è aldilà
quello che non sei
quello che tu sei

Sunday, May 24, 2009

Repetita iuvant ( in case you missed it ).

Love is the answer
الحب هو الحل
Dashuria është përgjigjja
Любовта е отговорът
L'amor és la resposta
Láska je odpověď
愛的回答
사랑의 대답은
Ljubav je odgovor
Love er svaret
אהבה היא התשובה
Armastus on vastus
Rakkaus on vastaus
L'amour est la réponse
Љубав је одговор
O amor é a resposta
愛の答えは
Η αγάπη είναι η απάντηση
प्यार का जवाब है
Mīlestība ir atbilde
Liefde is het antwoord
Miłość jest odpowiedzią
Dragostea este raspunsul
Любовь ответа
Ljubezen je odgovor
El amor es la respuesta
爱的回答
Kärlek är svaret
Pag-ibig ang sagot
รักคือคำตอบ
Die Liebe ist die Antwort
Aşk cevabı
Любов відповіді
A szerelem a válasz
Tình yêu là câu trả lời
L'Amore è la Risposta.

Sunday, May 10, 2009

Some small dwarfs (to those who still can think).

These little men,
small hearted,
miserable minded,
they made you blind,
and keep you down,
they feed you lies,
and numb your minds,
when will you wake up,
when will you realise,
that their dreams are your nightmares ?

Friday, May 08, 2009

Wednesday, May 06, 2009

Sovereign of the fogs

To my fellows the freaks.

Look at my tarantula,
she's so calm on my wall,
so aware of it all,
quite a nice gal,
keeps me away from hell,
if you ask her what will be,
she'll just smile at me,
and i'll tell you "hey my freak,
look up here, what do you see?".


Saturday, May 02, 2009

Blues for Kalpana



This is an instrumental song i wrote while the Space Shuttle Columbia was exploding on its re-entry to earth the 1 February 2003 and it's not a typical blues.
Here's the story of the birth of this song.

It was saturday morning in Italy, I woke up late (as usual) and started playing some random chords on my piano. Very soon I found myself playing 4 chords which seemed to me as if they were floating on air . I kept on playing, waiting for a variation in the melody to come out my fingers, I was fascinated by that slight change of tone of the intro. It reminded me of the stars and of the outer space. Closing my eyes I could see black sky and silvery lights. After a while I turned on the television without sound (I often do), and saw what seemed to me a normal re-entry of a Space Shuttle : I was amazed at the coincidence and I went on playing without looking at the television again, wondering about the stellar correspondence and synchronicity.

Soon I found the missing piece of the song. It fitted perfectly with the intro and seemed to have a bit of an epic touch, giving to the whole song the sensation of a sad triumphal march. I kept on playing. When I was sure that I had the whole song memorized in my mind I lit up a cigarette, looked up at the television again and saw the images of the exploding Shuttle.

I was shocked; I felt shivers up and down my spine, really got the creeps. I was thinking of synchronicity, feeling like I'd just been connected to other people's lives. I remembered a girl I had noticed before, she was in the shuttle. She was the same age as me, I saw her before on the news, she had impressed me for her beauty, intelligence and courage . I felt so sorry for her.

I finished recording "Blues for Kalpana" on the same day of the shuttle explosion.
I am honored to dedicate this song to the brave astronauts who lost their lives for all of us, and, particularly, to :

Kalpana Chawla ,41 , aerospace engineer, FAA Certified Flight Instructor and Mission Specialist for STS-107. Kalpana Chawla was responsible for more than twelve scientific experiments on the Shuttle Columbia. It was her second trip into space, the first one was in 1997. She described the earth view from space as very beautiful, and said she wished everyone could see it as she had.
Kalpana Chawla was born forty-one years ago in Karnal, about one-hundred-thirty kilometers north of New Delhi. Her friends say she always had the dream to fly. She moved to the United States in the nineteen-eighties, after graduating from Punjab Engineering College. She studied aeronautical engineering at the University of Texas in Arlington and the University of Colorado at Boulder. She became an astronaut in 1994. After Kalpana became an American citizen, she continued to stay in touch with students at her school in her hometown. Every year, she invited two of them to visit her at the American space agency. Students say she told them to follow their dreams, and that she would help them if their dreams could not come true in India. Hundreds of students had gathered at the school when the Columbia astronauts were expected to return to Earth. They prayed together when they learned the news that the shuttle had broken apart. Kalpana Chawla was the first Indian-born woman in space. But she told Indian reporters that she did not feel Indian when flying. She said that looking at the stars made her feel that she was from the solar system, not from one area of land on Earth. Millions of people in India, the United States and other nations mourned the loss of Kalpana and the other six Columbia astronauts.


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