Luigi Bonafede

Luigi Bonafede: Peace

by Martin Gladu
September 14, 2007

On a sunbathed, at low tide beach above a vast blue sky, fixed in motion, a kid kicks a soccer ball as others await, still in the background. The scene, which graces the cover of Luigi Bonafede's Peace, translates to perfection the duality between movement and stillness in the pianist's music.Here, pensive, rubato ballads are contrasted with upbeat tracks and facile chanters. Folksy melodies and swaying harmonies (with a propensity for the ad nauseam dual-polychords-over-the-same-pedal-note progression) converge into ...