HOW TO FALL DOWN/
BELOW THE SURFACE
release DATE
July 22th 2022
Genre
Modern classical electronics
How To Fall Down Below The Surface is the new album by composer and performer Marcello Liverani. It is a deeply introspective and intense and, at times, painful album: Each of the 12 pieces represents a step in a meditation process in which the composer lays bare through a catharsis that leads to the liberation of the self (the "falling down below the surface"). Each piece is meditation, prayer and total surrender to existential pain at the same time. This surrender is distilled into peace and serenity. An “Idee fixe” of the composer who seeks in music a means of existential self-healing and a way to share the deepest inner experiences with the audience. The serenity and peace that transpire from the use of electronics and the piano are the fruit of this profound surrender. The work will be released digitally on July 22nd under the exclusive of Believe Digital and on CD and Vinyl with the label BlueSpiral Records.
HOW TO FALL DOWN
release DATE
May 20th 2022
Genre
Modern classical electronics
How To Fall Down Below The Surface is the new album by composer and performer Marcello Liverani. It is a deeply introspective and intense and, at times, painful album: Each of the 12 pieces represents a step in a meditation process in which the composer lays bare through a catharsis that leads to the liberation of the self (the "falling down below the surface"). Each piece is meditation, prayer and total surrender to existential pain at the same time. This surrender is distilled into peace and serenity. An “Idee fixe” of the composer who seeks in music a means of existential self-healing and a way to share the deepest inner experiences with the audience. The serenity and peace that transpire from the use of electronics and the piano are the fruit of this profound surrender. The work will be released digitally on July 22nd under the exclusive of Believe Digital and on CD and Vinyl with the label BlueSpiral Records.
PRIVATE LINK LISTEN PREVIEW
1. CHASING THE SKY
It is a very delicate track that mixes an ambient texture with the use of a minimal piano. An impalpable opening piece that leads us into the "lightest" mood where we begin to lose our existential weight and deprives us of all everyday superstructures. Electronics describes ethereal and impalpable landscapes where sound leads us to look at the sky as a mirror of our soul.
4. THE GREATEST VOID
The Greatest Void is perhaps the heart of the whole album. The construction of the piece is divided into two parts: a preparation and a more intimate one. In the first part, the void is created through an ambient texture and, when we are ready to receive it, the piano arrives: simple, minimal, touching and, in some way, unsettling. It is a piece that talks about pain and how, when we are able to accept it, this too can turn into pure beauty.
7. another fragment of stilness
With this track a new phase opens. This second part starts with an apparent immobility made up of small waves of sound. The piece embodies an ambient soul agitated by a dark ambient mood. Here you can perceive a calm breathing after the more agitated "Where I come to an end". Compared to the other pieces, voices become more experimental and electronic: these are in fact stretched or pulverized to create rhythmic and contrapuntal intertwining over which the narration of the piano and synths spreads.
10. immensity
Here the piano returns accompanied by discreet electronics that underline, together with the voices, a sweet melody. One single theme declined several times in different ways to create a very delicate and almost imperceptible crescendo.
Tracks
2. DEEPER
This piece takes us on a cinematic journey through a continuous crescendo that leads to an orchestral and epic section. As the title itself suggests, it is going deep through the music to delve into our emotions. The atmosphere is that of Nordic music where, however, replacing the traditional orchestral instruments, the composer uses electronic sounds and instruments such as the voice which, integrated with the electronics, takes on an orchestral flavor.
5. A FRAGMENT OF STILLNESS
Second piece for piano solo of the album. Here time becomes more rarefied and silences and pauses create the form through the timbre of the instrument. It is a track for which you need to take your time and let yourself go and it’s played in balance between this suspension and a simple and easily recognizable melody.
8. 2 or 3 things
This is the third solo piano piece on the album. A simple and deeply emotional piece that represents an opening after the dark colors of the previous piece
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11. A waltz?
ast piece for piano solo of the album. The title already provides indications on the spirit that led to this composition which is freely linked to the form of the waltz. From the point of view of the concept of the album we are faced with a naive surrender, in front of the existential wound.
3. A GLIMPSE
It is the first solo piano piece in the production. Like the other piano solo pieces within the record it represents a moment of stasis. A narrative suspension and at the same time the summa of the meditative path. A transition between "kronos" and "kairos" that returns cyclically in the album. The piece has a very delicate writing but still with well-defined melodic and harmonic movements.
6. Where I come to an end
It closes the first part of the album. The title refers to the end of the Self as ego. Also in this case, as in Deeper, it’s a long crescendo form with a development, however, that leads to a very different solution from the other tracks. In particular, the arrangement of the final part, winks at post rock and progressive 70s with the use of synth in a sort of improvisation.
9. hapatek
Cross-genre track in which modern classical elements and rock suggestions intertwine. The piece was composed following cinematic suggestions. We imagine a long flight over a boundless landscape and a sense of spiritual and physical liberation.
9. let there be more light
The album closes with a luminous, almost transfiguring, piece. The brightness is described through the use of "light in sound" with the plucked piano strings or electronic treatments of the piano sounds themselves.
Tracks
1. CHASING THE SKY
It is a very delicate track that mixes an ambient texture with the use of a minimal piano. An impalpable opening piece that leads us into the "lightest" mood where we begin to lose our existential weight and deprives us of all everyday superstructures. Electronics describes ethereal and impalpable landscapes where sound leads us to look at the sky as a mirror of our soul.
2. DEEPER
This piece takes us on a cinematic journey through a continuous crescendo that leads to an orchestral and epic section. As the title itself suggests, it is going deep through the music to delve into our emotions. The atmosphere is that of Nordic music where, however, replacing the traditional orchestral instruments, the composer uses electronic sounds and instruments such as the voice which, integrated with the electronics, takes on an orchestral flavor.
3. A GLIMPSE
It is the first solo piano piece in the production. Like the other piano solo pieces within the record it represents a moment of stasis. A narrative suspension and at the same time the summa of the meditative path. A transition between "kronos" and "kairos" that returns cyclically in the album. The piece has a very delicate writing but still with well-defined melodic and harmonic movements.
4. THE GREATEST VOID
The Greatest Void is perhaps the heart of the whole album. The construction of the piece is divided into two parts: a preparation and a more intimate one. In the first part, the void is created through an ambient texture and, when we are ready to receive it, the piano arrives: simple, minimal, touching and, in some way, unsettling. It is a piece that talks about pain and how, when we are able to accept it, this too can turn into pure beauty.
5. A fragment of stillness
Second piece for piano solo of the album. Here time becomes more rarefied and silences and pauses create the form through the timbre of the instrument. It is a track for which you need to take your time and let yourself go and it’s played in balance between this suspension and a simple and easily recognizable melody.
6. where i come to an end
It closes the first part of the album. The title refers to the end of the Self as ego. Also in this case, as in Deeper, it’s a long crescendo form with a development, however, that leads to a very different solution from the other tracks. In particular, the arrangement of the final part, winks at post rock and progressive 70s with the use of synth in a sort of improvisation .
7. ANOTHER FRAGMENT OF STILLNESS
With this track a new phase opens. This second part starts with an apparent immobility made up of small waves of sound. The piece embodies an ambient soul agitated by a dark ambient mood. Here you can perceive a calm breathing after the more agitated "Where I come to an end". Compared to the other pieces, voices become more experimental and electronic: these are in fact stretched or pulverized to create rhythmic and contrapuntal intertwining over which the narration of the piano and synths spreads.
8. 2 OR 3 THINGS I LOVE
This is the third solo piano piece on the album. A simple and deeply emotional piece that represents an opening after the dark colors of the previous piece
9. HAPATEK
Cross-genre track in which modern classical elements and rock suggestions intertwine. The piece was composed following cinematic suggestions. We imagine a long flight over a boundless landscape and a sense of spiritual and physical liberation.
10. IMMENSITY
Here the piano returns accompanied by discreet electronics that underline, together with the voices, a sweet melody. One single theme declined several times in different ways to create a very delicate and almost imperceptible crescendo.
11. A WALTZ?
Last piece for piano solo of the album. The title already provides indications on the spirit that led to this composition which is freely linked to the form of the waltz.
From the point of view of the concept of the album we are faced with a naive surrender, in front of the existential wound.
12. LET THERE BE MORE LIGHT
The album closes with a luminous, almost transfiguring, piece. The brightness is described through the use of "light in sound" with the plucked piano strings or electronic treatments of the piano sounds themselves.
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 electronics with the use of acoustic instruments and voice. He has a background and training in contemporary avant-garde music and studied with composers such 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. Since 2020 he has been steadily collaborating with Believe digital for which he releases under exclusive on streaming platforms. His release Shapes (distributed by Blue Spiral Records on CD and vinyl) and the EP Der Wanderer obtaining a great favor of critics and audience especially on the Apple Music platform where it has been regularly included in editorial playlists reaching more than 1.000.000 of streaming in 2021.
- The Musicway Magazine
Liverani reconfirms his overwhelming genius and his innate compositional creativity.
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
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
UNDERGROUND MUSIC
A powerful sound, voluminous and full of interesting ideas that highlight the compositional vein of the artist who, combined with the technique, generate an album with a remarkable sonic impact.
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 electronics with the use of acoustic instruments and voice. He has a background and training in contemporary avant-garde music and studied with composers such 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. Since 2020 he has been steadily collaborating with Believe digital for which he releases under exclusive on streaming platforms. His release Shapes (distributed by Blue Spiral Records on CD and vinyl) and the EP Der Wanderer obtaining a great favor of critics and audience especially on the Apple Music platform where it has been regularly included in editorial playlists reaching more than 1.000.000 of streaming in 2021.
The Musicway Magazine
Liverani reconfirms his overwhelming genius and his innate compositional creativity.
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
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
UNDERGROUND MUSIC
A powerful sound, voluminous and full of interesting ideas that highlight the compositional vein of the artist who, combined with the technique, generate an album with a remarkable sonic impact.
