ALESSANDRA CELLETTI – ABOVE THE SKY

Alessandra Celletti’s new album ‘Above the Sky’ consists of nine original piano pieces and three by composers who have been an ongoing influence on her work (George Gurdjieff, Lawrence Ball and Alan Hovhaness). The CD is packaged in a very beautiful digipak with ten color paintings on the panels. The album is released coming off of a very successful tour of eleven outdoor performances in small towns throughout Italy where a truck with a baby grand piano on the back was driven to each locale that converted into a stage. creating the new album … WORK IN PROGRESS The sound of a drill superimposed on the sound of my piano: this was a risk that I had to run when I decided to record my new album not in a recording studio, but in my house. Fortunately, the problem has been cleverly solved by using a simple and polite request for a little silence, just for the three days that I have scheduled for recording. And my neighbors, including the new family that is renovating the house, have done their utmost to guarantee me calm without too much background noise. Nasino, my beloved cat, was the guest of Bruno and Lida, who live in the apartment opposite to mine. I hope you will forgive me for not including his little voice among the tools provided. This new album as always affects my relationship with the flight and the starry sky. Maybe my “extreme” album more because my interest is going right to the essence of the sound, the music as pure color and tonal experimentation. For this reason I have chosen precious fellow travelers, who, like me, intend music research as an exploration of sound, and I wanted to juxtapose to my compositions authors who I feel similar in the way of intending music as a tool to give voice to the invisible. I threw the coins to form 3 hexagrams. They formed the “Sky”, the “Crescent Moon” and the “Vision” … and maybe the album will start from these notes. I tried to sing the stars, the emergence of a lily in the fog … following the sound to dissolve the image of a dream. Next to my piano you will hear the colors of an accordion, a bass flute, the poignant notes of a saxophone, the magic of a Theremin, the drum beats. I’m not anticipating the names of the musicians, but some of you who know me better, may have already guessed. I decided to record in my house and with my piano because for a work of this kind I needed a total familiarity with the sounds and colors that I wanted to find. And then my house, small and chaotic, is my launching pad towards the infinite. I could tell you so many little incidents that have occurred in these days of recording, but I can summarize them in the sense of harmony that I have experienced … For now I’ll stop here, but there are other things to discover … gradually towards the spring.. Alessandra