Books

Actually reading :

Arthur C. Clarke / Stephen Baxter
Time's eye
Amazing novel through times.

James Reston
Warriors of God
The history of the 3rd crusade, enlightening.

Jeffery Deaver
The Devil's teardrop
A dark thriller for the summer.

Graham Hancock
Fingerprints of the Gods
This book really made me think, where do we come from ?

Why is music so important ?

Many ask me why I like music so much.
I have the highest consideration for music. Besides being
part of the material world, with its physics laws, music is
also made out of the dream world. Music brings together
transcendence and materialism in a way no other art can do.
All we need to enjoy it are just our ears and imagination.
Music has also other interesting peculiarities.
Music has the magical power to make different kind of people
realize that they share the same feelings.
It gives mankind something in common to all races and people
everywhere.
Last night I was looking at the Live 8 and chatting with a
student from Yemen who was asking informations about the
concert. We had a long nice chat and I learned some things I
didn't know about the life in Yemen. We found a common
ground in music, so that the communication could begin and
we could talk openly to each other because we shared the
same interests, we felt closer. Later I though that we could
never have had a chance to talk if it wasn't for music. We
were interested in each other's world. I think that people
is just the same wherever you go, all they want is to live
in peace, in a safe place, have food and health ...we're all
the same no matter our religion or colour. We should stop
thinking about our differences. Music and the TV media
tonight could dissipate a small percentage of the atmosphere
of incomprehension and fear, with Pink Floyd's words we
brought down a wall. Never believe the lies they're feeding
you. All we need are our hearts... and music of course.

Books

Actually reading :

Masters of time
by John Boslough

The Biotech Century
by Jeremy Rifkin

Margherita Hack
L'Idea del Tempo

Poetry

Patience, Patience,
Patient dans l'azur!
Chaque atome de silence
Est la chance d'un fruit mûr!

Paul Valery.

Reviews

I got a couple reviews of my songs from Queenie, a
singer, girl with an awesome dreamy voice.
This will help me to answer when people ask me
which genre of music I write.

• NEW WORDS
• http://www.dariomusic.com/newwords.htm
  Post new-wave, like Smashing Pumpkins or even Cure.
  Very creative use of harmonies and I've never heard a
  vocoder used like this. The piano "breaks" are very
  pleasant. There is nothing like this elsewhere, very
  bizarre and again with a Gothic touch.
  

• QUELLO CHE TU SEI
• http://www.dariomusic.com/quelloche.htm
  Dark and menacing!
  This reminds me of the music I listened to in high
  school, very dark and gothic. It almost sounds like
  organ in the background, adding to the haunted
  atmosphere of the song. Fast moving with heavy guitar
  and syncopated drums.
  

Creativity n° 2

Surfing the web I'm discovering some interesting songwriters who share my love for music and my inner urge to give birth to songs despite of the music-biz, times they are 'a changing....

• http://www.giops.net/ the GIOP's Project, for reggae music lovers and open minded people. Take a look at GIOP's philosophy.
• http://www.robertderrickecker.net/ ROBERT DERRICK ECKER High quality music done in a variety of styles, this guys draws nice paintings too.

Shots

Dreams and walls might serve you well

to live comfortably in hell.

Creativity

 

Just a couple of words about creativity. I've often questioned myself lately about my passion for music and what it means. I just know that I've always wrote songs, since I was a 6 years old boy and put my hands on a piano for the first time. Creativity is an inside power, a force which compels the affected person to produce and concretize his own feelings in the most appropriate way. Even if there is no return back. Even if nobody will ever listen or read or see what the so called "artist" had done. It's just a force from inside which urges ourselves to bring our inside out in the most expressive way that's possible.

So I know I've just got no alternative, I have to let my feelings out in order to feel realized and give my life a meaning beyond plain living.

Which leads me to think ... what then about all the quarrel and fuzz about mp3 downloading from the net ? World wide known artists sobbing about their loss of creativity because of illegal downloading. They say illegal industry is killing creativity. Poor them, they surely need tons of cash to continue fueling up their creativity. Thanks God, I'm not famous, my songs are free for everybody, but the fire still burns.

 

Shots

For each happiness there's a sorrow waiting.

Love & Pentagram

Somebody asked me why I put the symbol of
pentagram (or pentacle) on my last cd picture cover.
I've been asked if it's a satanist symbol. I think it's time
to tell the real story behind LOVE!'s cover.
It all came out from a dream, in the early months of
2004 I was finishing recording LOVE!'s songs, I was fully
immersed in my music all the time. One night I had a
powerful vision in one of my dreams, there were high
walls, a raging black sea and a woman wearing a
necklace with a pentacle. I thought that it would have
been a good cover for my cd, because it represented to
me a synthesis between holy love and physical love. I
never thought about satanism, I just don't believe in it.
Many people still confuse the pentagram with the
perverted use the satanists do of it.
I post here a short description of the pentagram, taken
from the online enciclopedia Wikipedia.
I hope this will clarify people's ideas:

Pentagram
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

In fact, the word pentagram comes from the Greek
word (pentagrammon), a word meaning roughly "five-
lined" or "five lines".
Pentagrams were used symbolically in ancient Greece
and Babylonia. The Pentagram has magickal
associations.
Christians once commonly used the pentagram to
represent the five wounds of Jesus, but nowadays
some Christians associate the symbol with Satanism.
However, most who use it are not Satanists.
Satanists use the Pythagorean pentagram (one point
down) inscribed in a double circle, with the head of
Baphomet inside the pentagram.

The first uses of the pentagram we know of are found
in Mesopotamian writings dating to about 3000 B.C.

If you cut an apple transversally through its core, it
reveals a pentagram. The apple is also still, despite
Christian ideas over the years, a symbol of health. (An
apple a day keeps the doctor away.)
According to Heather Child's Christian Symbols, Ancient
and Modern, the pentagram is a symbol of the five
senses. Also, when the letters S, A, L, V, and S are
inscribed in the points, the pentagram is a symbol of
health (Latin salus).
In the medieval romance of Sir Gawain and the Green
Knight, it was on Gawain's shield along with a
Madonna. The pentagram was said to be part of a
theme of fives throughout the story, standing for his
five virtues.

In Goethe's Faust the pentagram hinders
Mephistopheles to leave a room.
"Mephistopheles:
I must confess, my stepping o'er
Thy threshold a slight hindrance doth impede;
The wizard-foot doth me retain.
Faust:
The pentagram thy peace doth mar?
To me, thou son of hell, explain,
How earnest thou in, if this thine exit bar?
Could such a spirit aught ensnare?"

I am writing this article because many people still
misunderstand the meaning of the pentacle and just think about it as a
satanic symbol.... ignorance is the worst enemy of all
mankind.

Peace&Love