Lorenzo Nardocci Trio - Secondo Me (CD)

Release Date: 01/14/22

Classic piano trio release. Lorenzo Nardocci, an Italian living in Norway with his own compositions only. This is his second release.

This is the second release from this trio.
It includes six new compositions developed during the last year through great interplay with Andreas Dreier (bass) and Terje Evensen (drums). Themes are based on life´s everyday moments and on important people in my life: This is, in fact, the essence of the album title Secondo Me (According to me).
That is also the way the album opens: Secondo Me is a light C-major melody on a sweet samba, a reflection on how much I love life, music, and this beautiful instrument with its endless sounds and expressions.
Songs like Rubato and Al Quinto Piano represent moments of imagination at the piano and are dedicated to the two places I´d been sitting the most whilst working on those melodies; respectively the church in my town, Langhus kirke, and the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo, up on the 5th floor, as the title says, where all the rehearsal rooms are.
Dicembre is a representation of the crazy life of a gigging musician at the most beautiful time of the year: running from gig to gig, from church to club, from heaven´s imaginary scenarios to lots of Christmas food and sweets. The tempo is high and stressful, even though the melody is as slow as a ballad, and is reminiscent of an abstract digital Bethlehem.
Birozza is my love, my family. This song is made especially with my beloved wife in mind. Yes, this is a love song! The soulful groove is the way I feel together with her: swinging, relaxed and happy. B.M.W. are my kids, always in action, funny, lovely dynamos!
The album also includes three short improvisations: these are pure moments of joy in between recordings at the wonderful recording studio named Rainbow.

Lorenzo Nardocci (Italian pianist now living in Norway)