Some bands you should absolutely know

I'm listening to a lot of great bands lately,
here are my personal suggestions if you wish to know new groups:

• And you will know us by the trail of dead
• Black heart procession
• Mercury Rev
• Maximo Park

They're all absolutely amazing, don't miss them.

Face to face

Black heart morning thoughts

99 % of mankind is useless nonetheless harmful.

I want your SOUNDS !

As you all know I'm actually working on my latest CD which
will hopefully be released by the end of year 2007.

I am experimenting and mixing sounds in my songs, I already
have a quite interesting bunch of them but I want to push
this experience further.

If you wish to collaborate with me in the making of my CD
send me whatever you think it is interesting.
Sounds from your room window, the sounds of the streets you
walk on, your voice and your thoughts, whatever you think it
is nice to listen to.

I will give you credits on my CD artwork and you will have
the pleasure to have collaborated in a brand new piece of
modern art.

Write me from my contact page at
http://www.dariomusic.com/contact.htm

Sellaband !

Dario-V- on SellaBand

Itaca

Sempre devi avere in mente Itaca,
raggiungerla sia il pensiero costante.
Soprattutto, non affrettare il viaggio;
fa che duri a lungo, per anni, e che da vecchio
metta piede sull'isola, tu, ricco
dei tesori accumulati per strada
senza aspettarti ricchezze da Itaca.
Itaca ti ha dato il bel viaggio,
senza di lei mai ti saresti messo
sulla strada: che cos'altro ti aspetti?

(Kavafis)
Mille grazie a Isabella.

Always have in mind Itaca,
be the arrival your constant thought.
Above all don't rush in,
let it last long, for years,
and when old aged you
put your foot on the island,
rich of treasures found on the way,
don't expect wealth from Itaca.
Itaca gave you the amazing journey,
without it you would have never leaved:
what else could you expect ?

(Kavafis)
Many thanks to Isabella.

Me and the beatles .. the beatles and me (the walrus inside)

I just read that the next Beatles' collection and remixes
Cd will be called "Love"... just like my latest Cd which I
published in 2004.
This is the latest of many coincidences happened between me
and them so I just wish to spend a couple of words about it.
It's like a circle that closes in.

I was born on the same day the first single from the Beatles
"Love me do" was released on the market. It was back on the
beginning of the sixties. I grew up with their music and
inspiration. I still can recall the feelings i got when i
was just few years old and i heard "Eleanor rigby", I didn't
understand a single word of what Paul sang, i was attending
the elementary school, but i perfectly understood the
feeling of loneliness inside that song. I also can recall
the big shock I had when the italian television broadcasted
the cartoon "Yellow submarine". It was amazing to see the Glove
fly and Blue Meanies bleaching things. When the Beatles took
the "G" out of the destroyer glove and transformed it in Love
it just became a part of my imagination as a kid.

There has always been some kind of connection between me and
the Fab 4, i'm a libra just like John, I got married with an
asian girl like him, I even have been menaced by some sort
of idiot fan just like him,i also was afraid to be shoot. My
daughter is named after Beatles first disco graphic company.
The funny thing of it all is that i didn't do anything
consciously.

It gives me a sort of tender feeling to think about Paul and
Ringo as they are now, they represent a big slice of my
life, i can only thank them all from the very deep of my
heart for having taught me that love is all we need.
What will remain of them ?

This crazy world seems to have forgotten Love, although we
need it now more than ever, so I hope that their new Cd will
bring us a memory of what could have been if those years had
fulfilled their promises of love and peace instead of being
devoured by history and Blue Meanies.

Still here after all these years.

Apologies.

I must apologize with all my fans and friends for having
been so far, cold and crazy lately. I've been through one of
the worst periods of my life. I finally understood that my
life is actually what I made of it and that I can't change
it as much as i wish.

It's time for me to stay in my cold and far dwarf planet,
taking a look at things from a distance, without being
personally involved.
Just writing and creating as I always did.

I'm a kind of dreamer and my destiny is to dream and make
others dream with my works.

I can't be real. I'm just a voice from your loudspeakers,
some colored pixels on your computer screens.
But I couldn't have been real without you.

Dario-V-

Art - Wikiquote

Art - Wikiquote: "'Art does not reproduce the visible; it makes things visible.' ~ Paul Klee"

The end ?