DER WANDERER
Author
Marcello Liverani
Genre
Modern classical / ambient electronics
Release date
November 26th
Digital distribution
Believe Digital
“Der Wanderer” is a 5-track EP to be released on November 26, 2021 under exclusive of “Believe Digital”.
After the reflections of the album "Shapes" which led from the abstraction of forms to discovery of an enchanted world, another scenario opens up here. A scenario of passage in Liverani's artistic activity already suggested by the title of the work. Der Wanderer is a famous lied by Franz Schubert which condenses in his lyrics the restlessness and, at the same time, the ideal of the romantic traveler.
“I come from the mountains;
the valley steams, the ocean roars.
I wander, silent and joyless,
and my sighs for ever ask: Where?
Here the sun seems so cold,
the blossom faded, life old,
and men’s words mere hollow noise;
I am a stranger everywhere.
Where are you, my beloved land?
Sought, dreamt of, yet never known!
The land so green with hope,
the land where my roses bloom,
Where my friends walk,
where my dead ones rise again,
the land that speaks my tongue,
O land, where are you?
I wander, silent and joyless,
and my sighs for ever ask: Where?
In a ghostly whisper the answer comes:
‘There, where you are not, is happiness!’”
Especially the verse "I am a stranger everywhere" represents the deepest meaning of this work between moments of profound melancholy and tracks where electronics are in search of a primal purity. Furthermore, in this work, the author explores a more narrative mix between his taste for ambient electronics and the classical influences due to his training. The 5 tracks are as the plot of a film in which the traveler returns home in the first scene and remembers his tormented journey in the following scenes.
DER WANDERER
Author
Marcello Liverani
Genre
Modern classical / ambient electronics
Release date
November 26th
Digital distribution
Believe Digital
“Der Wanderer” is a 5-track EP to be released on November 26, 2021 under exclusive of “Believe Digital”.
After the reflections of the album "Shapes" which led from the abstraction of forms to discovery of an enchanted world, another scenario opens up here. A scenario of passage in Liverani's artistic activity already suggested by the title of the work. Der Wanderer is a famous lied by Franz Schubert which condenses in his lyrics the restlessness and, at the same time, the ideal of the romantic traveler.
“I come from the mountains;
the valley steams, the ocean roars.
I wander, silent and joyless,
and my sighs for ever ask: Where?
Here the sun seems so cold,
the blossom faded, life old,
and men’s words mere hollow noise;
I am a stranger everywhere.
Where are you, my beloved land?
Sought, dreamt of, yet never known!
The land so green with hope,
the land where my roses bloom,
Where my friends walk,
where my dead ones rise again,
the land that speaks my tongue,
O land, where are you?
I wander, silent and joyless,
and my sighs for ever ask: Where?
In a ghostly whisper the answer comes:
‘There, where you are not, is happiness!’”
Especially the verse "I am a stranger everywhere" represents the deepest meaning of this work between moments of profound melancholy and tracks where electronics are in search of a primal purity. Furthermore, in this work, the author explores a more narrative mix between his taste for ambient electronics and the classical influences due to his training. The 5 tracks are as the plot of a film in which the traveler returns home in the first scene and remembers his tormented journey in the following scenes.
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Tracks
Daydream Landscape
The journey proceeds with a return to a more classical atmosphere. An ensemble, strings and piano, which is transfigured here as in a dream. The strings bring long breaths into a deeply meditative piece.
Berceuse
Berceuse means Lullaby in French. Berceuse is also the name of a musical form for solo piano. These two elements provide the ideal curtain opening of the work with a minimal and calm melody immersed in the timbre of a felt piano that welcomes timbral and intonation "blurs" which represent the return to a domestic and comfortable environment, ancient and Imperfect.
North Pole
A piece that, unique in the EP, welcomes the use of beats and a more composite architecture.The North Pole is a metaphor of the farthest point that can be reached on a journey. And it is in fact ideally here that the journey arrives: In the crystallization of the cold sounds of electronics and beats.
The Whale Chant
Here begins the parable of the journey which is, above all, an inner discovery. An icy yet tender majesty is suggested by simple harmonies, electronic poetry, sometimes descriptive, and minimal instrumental elements. The metaphor of the whale as grandeur of the self and ocean as an ideal and distant place.
Lamento
(Monteverdi in Mind)
The EP closes with a piece that shows, since the title, the close relationship with classical music. Claudio Monteverdi's vocal compositions are here an inspiration to integrate a certain use of the voice in an electronic elaboration where the melodies are once again suggested and not immediately revealed. The piece represents a dark and restless closing as in the text of Schubert's lied.
Marcello Liverani bio
Marcello Liverani is a composer and performer from Sardinia (Italy) with a focus on Modern Classical and electronic genre. His music focuses on piano solo, keyboards and synth, minimal electronic with the use of acoustic instruments and voice. He has a background in contemporary avant-garde classical music and studied in European academies with composers as I.Fedele, A. Corghi and H Dufourt. After obtaining a Master’s degree in Composition at the “Accademia di S. Cecilia” in Rome, he received recognitions and won prizes for his vocal, ensemble and orchestral works, which have been performed in venues and festival such as the Venice Biennale, Parco della musica in Rome and “Festival de Acanthes” in Metz. Of great importance in his career has been the recent exclusive collaboration agreement with Believe Digital Distribution under which he has released the double EP Shapes Vol 1 and Vol 2 (which will be released on physical disc by Blue Spiral Records). Both the EPs had an excellent response, collecting about 600,000 streams in less than 4 months from their release on Apple Music.
- The Musicway Magazine
An artist who will surely delight Philip Glass, Nils Frahm and Olafur Arnalds listeners
MusicInABox
Marcello Liverani offers genuine music played first with the soul and then with a good dose of technique,
Steve Sheppard - ONE WORLD MUSIC
Liverani’s skill set at manifesting moving constructs of extremely artistic contemporary instrumental music is simply amazing, and this timeless compilation of excellent arrangements will live on forever in the hearts and minds of those who love really superb music.
- The Musicway Magazine
Trough the precious and refined “Shapes Vol1” Liverani has shared with us all the forms, joy and emotional expression that life offers: love sensivity, empathy. Well deserved praise for Liverani
Marcello Liverani bio
Marcello Liverani is a composer and performer from Sardinia (Italy) with a focus on Modern Classical and electronic genre. His music focuses on piano solo, keyboards and synth, minimal electronic with the use of acoustic instruments and voice. He has a background in contemporary avant-garde classical music and studied in European academies with composers as I.Fedele, A. Corghi and H Dufourt. After obtaining a Master’s degree in Composition at the “Accademia di S. Cecilia” in Rome, he received recognitions and won prizes for his vocal, ensemble and orchestral works, which have been performed in venues and festival such as the Venice Biennale, Parco della musica in Rome and “Festival de Acanthes” in Metz. Of great importance in his career has been the recent exclusive collaboration agreement with Believe Digital Distribution under which he has released the double EP Shapes Vol 1 and Vol 2 (which will be released on physical disc by Blue Spiral Records). Both the EPs had an excellent response, collecting about 600,000 streams in less than 4 months from their release on Apple Music.
- The Musicway Magazine
An artist who will surely delight Philip Glass, Nils Frahm and Olafur Arnalds listeners
Steve Sheppard - ONE WORLD MUSIC
Liverani’s skill set at manifesting moving constructs of extremely artistic contemporary instrumental music is simply amazing, and this timeless compilation of excellent arrangements will live on forever in the hearts and minds of those who love really superb music.
- The Musicway Magazine
Trough the precious and refined “Shapes Vol1” Liverani has shared with us all the forms, joy and emotional expression that life offers: love sensivity, empathy. Well deserved praise for Liverani
MusicInABox
Marcello Liverani offers genuine music played first with the soul and then with a good dose of technique,
ABOUT PREVIOUS ALBUM
Marcello Liverani's previous album, Shapes, consists of 2 EPs and 11 tracks, released on physical disk by Blue Spiral Records and digitally distribute under exclusive license of Believe Digital. The release of the two EPs was welcomed with great favor, especially on the Apple Music platform where it conquered position no. 23 of the Top 200 Classical releases in Germany and his songs have been included in numerous editorial playlists reaching more than 600.000 streams in 4 months.
- The Musicway Magazine
Trough the precious and refined “Shapes Vol1” Liverani has shared with us all the forms, joy and emotional expression that life offers: love sensivity, empathy. Well deserved praise for Liverani
- One world Music
Shapes Vol 2 by Marcello Liverani has to be one of the most listenable ambient creations on keyboards and piano I have had to the pleasure of listening to for quite some time. Liverani’s skill set at manifesting moving constructs of extremely artistic contemporary instrumental music is simply amazing, and this timeless compilation of excellent arrangements will live on forever in the hearts and minds of those who love really superb music.
ABOUT PREVIOUS ALBUM
Marcello Liverani's previous album, Shapes, consists of 2 EPs and 11 tracks, released on physical disk by Blue Spiral Records and digitally distribute under exclusive license of Believe Digital. The release of the two EPs was welcomed with great favor, especially on the Apple Music platform where it conquered position no. 23 of the Top 200 Classical releases in Germany and his songs have been included in numerous editorial playlists reaching more than 600.000 streams in 4 months.
- One world Music
Shapes Vol 2 by Marcello Liverani has to be one of the most listenable ambient creations on keyboards and piano I have had to the pleasure of listening to for quite some time. Liverani’s skill set at manifesting moving constructs of extremely artistic contemporary instrumental music is simply amazing, and this timeless compilation of excellent arrangements will live on forever in the hearts and minds of those who love really superb music.
- The Musicway Magazine
Trough the precious and refined “Shapes Vol1” Liverani has shared with us all the forms, joy and emotional expression that life offers: love sensivity, empathy. Well deserved praise for Liverani
