All Alone

Coming back, speed, loud music, rain, lights, thoughts flying in the air…I loved it. On air: All alone (Joe Satriani)

Go on!

After partecipating to the 4 km fun run (aside the Rome Marathon) watching people [real atlethes (2h:09s) and normal people (3,4,5 hours and more)] arriving to the end of the 42,192 km, I thought about the Power of Mind. Watching them arriving to the finish line, I realised with more concrete counsciousness that human being can really achieve wathever he/she wants. There is something hidden in our body, in our brain, that gives a special fire, feeding of motivation & energy our soul. From that moment everything will be easier, because the road will be clearly signed…. Admiration!!

Richard Whitehead (photo) said: ‘Every Marathon is a Journey’. Another marathon - a different country, a different culture. I’m quickly realising that every marathon is not just a race but a journey which presents fresh challenges and continually renews my perspective. The attention and compassion I receive from the local people at each location is both surprising and amazing. I completed the race in 3 hours and 39 minutes – 13 minutes faster than my former PB (Personal Best)!

On air: Running on faith (Eric Clapton)

Switched off

This morning I forgot my mobile at home... When I arrived at work I was planning to go back home at lunch time to take it...then I decided... Today I will stay SWITCHED OFF...

On air: Flexable - Steve Vai

TIBET FREE

No Olimpics for Beijing until Tibet is free!

It is incredible what is happening there:

Every people that has the possibility to spread a

message should say something: politician, musicians,

sport peolple whoever can arrive to

the heart of people SHOUT, SCREAM,

CRY TO YELL

STOP VIOLENCE!!!

Let's help to create a cultural movement

to freedom.

Don't go to Olimpics

Don't Run

Don't Sing

Don't play soccer

ecc.

without saying something in favour

of Tibet free

On air: No music, just silence

Franco Mussida

Altaloma 5 till 9

My “Maestro”. The first time I saw him it was in Milan at the school. I arrived from a long physical and mental journey and i didn’t know who I was going to meet. When he entered into the room with his books and guitar I realized he was a giant. I didn’t expected he was so tall, with these big hands (I asked myself: how can he play?) and a deep smile. Spirituality in his eyes. Why “Maestro” and not music teacher? Because his teaching was an attempt to give us the key to touch a part of life through music. A part from his music/guitar lessons, I remeber talking about the meaning of the sound of intervals (minor third, major third, fifth, sixth…). Some days our lesson was dedicated to the approach to the sound also experimenting the sounds of the nature as the chirp of the birds trying to learn how to direct our listening. This photos have been taken at the Premiata Forneria Marconi (PFM) Salerno concert: me and big big Franco had a long chat before the concert while he was warming up his hands on the guitar…Then, during the exibition, while he was improvising on “Altaloma 5 till 9” he realized that I was concentrated on his playing and his hands . He called me with his eyes (as when we were at the school) and then indicated me. Something special was happening: while PFM music was going on for all the people there, Franco and I knew that notes, that piece of improvisation was just for us. Our mental status was connected by music in a parallel world and no one could enter there. Thanks!!

On air: Altaloma 5 till 9 (PFM live)

The roker with high heel: Polly Jean Harvey

Since I read she was coming to Rome, something (like a little voice in my head) was telling me I had to go and so I did. Arriving in the Santa Cecilia hall was a surprise: a piano, a keyboard, some sound effects and lots of small lights telling me that something beautiful was going to happen…Then she arrived, black long dress and high hell, big smile, elegant, so small and with this sweet voice… but the first guitar chord was so powerful and noisy…. To bring you my love! The thing that impressed me the most was the ability to change from sweet intimate songs (from white chalk) to strong distorted songs…the devil, grow grow grow or the mountain, passing by My beautiful Leah and Down by the water... the ability to build different moods just by working with her voice...piano and voice...forte and voice guitar and voice drum and voice...then just voice ...ssssshhhh. Delicate and strong, powerful and sweet. Lots of instruments on the stage….but just her to play them. It was almost like staying in her house in the Dorset hills sit y the fire place and listening a magical friend.

Roma 9 Marzo 2008: PJ Harvey

AV---------:::

Adriano Vitrbini: Timing, presence on stage, fantasy, sound, ideas... I liked it AV & Cesare in BudSpencerBluesExplosion!!!

Enrico Pezza / Sante Rutigliano & C.

The research of the right word and the right note to build the right mood: bravi!

Bye bye Jeff (Healey)

While I was studying guitar and I was looking for new inputs I found a young guitarist that played holding the guitar across his lap. I was astonished when I first heard and saw him: the sound was great and his style unique. The light in his eyes...

Please take your time and listen to Lennon's "while my guitar gently weeps" played by Jeff Healey or some song from "See the light" album.

Thanks Jeff for the light you gave us and expanded with your music.

Watch the energy also with big big Steve Ray Vaughan

http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=XqU9RZqvFKY

http://it.youtube.com/watch?v=MJh3KaIKDAw

Thanks, thanks thanks. God bless you!

March 2, 2008

Guitarist and bandleader Jeff Healey dies in Toronto hospital following a lengthy struggle with cancer,Healey passes away on the eve of the release of a new blues rock album. Jeff Healey, arguably one of the most distinctive guitar players of our time, died today (Sunday March 2) in St. Joseph’s Hospital, Toronto. He was 41, and leaves his wife, Cristie, daughter Rachel (13) and son Derek (three), as well as his father and step-mother, Bud and Rose Healey, and sisters Laura and Linda.Funeral and memorial arrangements are pending. Robbed of his sight as a baby due to a rare form of cancer, retino blastoma, and he started to play guitar when he was three, holding the instrument unconventionally across his lap. He formed his first band at 17, but soon formed a trio which was named the Jeff Healey Band.After his appearance in the movie Road House, he was signed to Arista records, and in 1988 released the Grammy-nominated album See the Light, which included a major hit single, Angel Eyes. He earned a Juno Award in 1990 as Entertainer of the Year.Two more albums emerged on Arista, with lessening success as the ’90s passed. Various “best-of” and live packages were released, and he recorded two more rock albums, before turning to his real love, classic American jazz from the ’20s, ’30s and ’40s.By then, however, Healey was an internationally-known star who had played with dozens of musicians, including B.B. King and Stevie Ray Vaughan, and recorded with George Harrison. Mark Knopfler and the late blues legend, Jimmy Rogers.A family man with a three-year-old son and a 13-year-old daughter he preferred to stay close to home. “I’ve traveled widely before — been there and done that,” he told friends, determined to avoid the lengthy, exhausting tours that marked his life in his twenties and early thirties.A long-running CBC Radio series saw him in the role of disc jockey — My Kinda Jazz was a staple for a while, but in recent years he had hosted a programme with a similar name on Jazz-FM in Toronto. A highlight of his broadcasts was always the use of rare — and rarely heard — music from his 30,000-plus collection of 78-rpm records. As his rock career wound down as the millennium came, he recorded a series of three album of early jazz, playing trumpet as well as acoustic guitar in a band he called Jeff Healey’s Jazz Wizards. The most recent was It’s Tight Like That, recorded live at Hugh’s Room in Toronto in 2005, with British jazz legend Chris Barber as guest star. At the time of his death he was about to see the release of his first rock/blues album in eight years, Mess of Blues, which is being released in Europe on March 20, and in Canada and the U.S. on April 22. The album was the result of a joint agreement between the German label, Ruf Records, and Stony Plain, the independent Edmonton-based label that has released his three jazz CDs.Mess of Blues was recorded in studios in Toronto, with two cuts recorded at the Jeff Healey’s Roadhouse in Toronto and two at a concert in London England. The backup group on the upcoming CD — the Healey’s House Band — played with him regularly at the downtown Roadhouse, and at a previous club bearing his name in the Queen-Bathurst area.Early last year, Healey underwent surgery to remove cancerous tissue from his legs, and later from both lungs; aggressive radiation treatments and chemotherapy, however, failed to halt the spread of the disease.Despite his battle with cancer, he undertook frequent tours across Canada with both his blues-based band and his jazz group; he was set for a major tour in Germany and the U.K. and was to be a guest on the BBC’s famed Jools Holland Show in April.Remembered by his musicians — and his audiences — for his wry sense of humour as well as his musical playfulness, Healey was a unique musician who bridged different genres with ease and assurance.

from: http://www.jeffhealey.com/

Indigo 4: the beginning

InDIgo 4 are: GIANLUCA PETRELLA (trombone) PAOLINO DALLA PORTA (double bass) FRANCESCO BEARZATTI (Sax) FABIO ACCARDI (drums) Please, take your time and open the photos... I am sure you will find something particular in each of them.

Indigo 4 - my impressions

Why in movement? Because in music as in life everything is moving, also the silence is running ahead to an end that will never end.

Also here, please take your time and open the single photos....try to imagine

what could be or what it really is

waitin an instant before entry

musical/tropical fishes in deep water

sad

hands

Saxinphonìa

Golia drummer Instants: open the photos and you will see their faces