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Alessandro Sgobbio Releases 'Piano Music 2' - An Intimate Collection Of Dedications For Piano And Live Electronics

Source: Alessandro Sgobbio
September 24, 2023

Piano Music 2 (2023) is Alessandro Sgobbio’s follow-up to his acclaimed Piano Music (2022). The Italian pianist and composer presents nine new intimate compositions, each of them dedicated to a person, place or topic that have a special meaning and importance to him. The album is a meditative sound experience that invites the listeners to actively reconnect with the powerful meanings of natural and spiritual elements (“Modular Circles”, “The River”, “Tula”, ”Einhausung”), finding inspirations from special historical episodes of cities ...

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Oslo-Based Hitra's New Album 'Transparence' Out Now

Source: Alessandro Sgobbio
February 23, 2021

HITRA plays imaginative original music and improvisations. A project born at the Norges Musikkhøgskole in Oslo, HITRA reunites four artists who have extensively investigated contemporary art forms. The band is made up of pianist and composer Alessandro Sgobbio, Hilmar Jensson on guitar, Jo Berger Myhre on bass and Øyvind Skarbø on drums. The band has performed concerts and recorded in Norway. Transparence is a journey into imaginary, lost and hidden places. The opening track Lebtit (written by Alessandro Sgobbio) evokes ...

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