“... like a glass of red wine on a Summer evening”
Fabrizio Paterlini
"COMPOSING SAD MUSIC MAKES ME HAPPIER"
Fabrizio Paterlini (born in 1973) is an Italian pianist and composer from Mantua, a small and nice town in Italy, where he currently lives with his family.
He released his first album for piano solo back in 2007 (Viaggi in aeromobile) and since then, his music started to travel around the globe. After exploring the piano solo compositions with several works (Viandanze in 2008, Fragments Found in 2010, Autumn Stories in 2012 and The Art of the Piano in 2014), he then started exploring different setup. In 2013 he released "Now", his first attempt to coniugate piano with electronics and in 2017 he published his latest Secret Book, his most composite album so far. Piano, strings and electronics blend together in a new and interesting formula that brings Fabrizio's music to new unexplored paths.
In February 2018, he released his first piano solo album, since four years: Winter Stories, presented to the audience by recording and streaming on all his social channels one song per day during the week from Feb 12th to Feb 17th.
In November 2016, he founded the label Memory Recordings, trying this way to put his experience at the disposal of other musicians.
About me
“Transitions is an amazing suite of musical statements and considering how short and minimalist the music is, has a very unexpected impact. ” - Dave Frankling
“Paterlini is a tender performer, comfortable with silences, capable of turning a tender phrase with the high keys while sublimating the low. This artist’s love for the instrument.... makes the listening experience feel personal, rather than commercial. ” - Richard Allen
“When one hears these pieces back-to-back, one experiences a wider range of dynamic contrast than one is used to hearing on the artist’s records, but relaxes knowing that the synthesized tones on other tracks are still considered adornment rather than their compositional core” - Richard Allen
Press Photos & Tour Info
Riverscape EU Tour
Cds,Vinyls and downloads
RIVERSCAPE – THE ALBUM
The first time I knew about the Dutch photographer Kristel Shneider was few years ago. She was kind enough to send me her most recent work at that time, the photo book “Variation in trees” and I was immediately captured by the stunning images and the harmony of the shots it included.
During the pandemic, I was contacted by
The first time I knew about the Dutch photographer Kristel Shneider was few years ago. She was kind enough to send me her most recent work at that time, the photo book “Variation in trees” and I was immediately captured by the stunning images and the harmony of the shots it included.
During the pandemic, I was contacted by
RIVERSCAPE – THE ALBUM
The first time I knew about the Dutch photographer Kristel Shneider was few years ago. She was kind enough to send me her most recent work at that time, the photo book “Variation in trees” and I was immediately captured by the stunning images and the harmony of the shots it included.
During the pandemic, I was contacted by Kristel and she introduced me to her new project – a comprehensive photo book about the French river she is currently living nearby, the Allier river. She also proposed me to compose a sort of “soundtrack” having the “river theme” as source of inspiration.
What Kristel did not know at that time, is that I currently live really close to the biggest Italian river, the PO river, and I find myself, alone or together with my family, quite often walking on its banks, contemplating the calm rhythm of the water passing by or playing on the beach with my kids during Summertime.
The river is then far from being an “unknown” source of inspiration for me – at the opposite is quite a familiar place: I know its languages, I recognize its smell, I love the calmness it always brings me while watching the water passing by. And I am totally fascinated by the stories that arise around the river, stories about men, women, villages, fears and hopes that during the centuries this incredible place brought to its inhabitants.
I then happily accepted Kristel proposal and we immediately started working on this “joint” project in which she was taking care of the visual part and I was in charge of the music to be somehow“synched” to these images.
One and a half year later, I am happy to present you “RIVERSCAPE”, a suite of thirteen songs which introduce to what the river has inspired me – flows, rhythms, piano notes, cinematic strings – all this is what the imaginary of the river inspired me to compose and it’s included in this album.
“RIVERSCAPE” represents an ideal evolution of my music, from 2017 Secret Book, to the most recent “FIFTH” piano, electronics and strings are colors of my palette and in this album are present as never before.
The first time I knew about the Dutch photographer Kristel Shneider was few years ago. She was kind enough to send me her most recent work at that time, the photo book “Variation in trees” and I was immediately captured by the stunning images and the harmony of the shots it included.
During the pandemic, I was contacted by Kristel and she introduced me to her new project – a comprehensive photo book about the French river she is currently living nearby, the Allier river. She also proposed me to compose a sort of “soundtrack” having the “river theme” as source of inspiration.
What Kristel did not know at that time, is that I currently live really close to the biggest Italian river, the PO river, and I find myself, alone or together with my family, quite often walking on its banks, contemplating the calm rhythm of the water passing by or playing on the beach with my kids during Summertime.
The river is then far from being an “unknown” source of inspiration for me – at the opposite is quite a familiar place: I know its languages, I recognize its smell, I love the calmness it always brings me while watching the water passing by. And I am totally fascinated by the stories that arise around the river, stories about men, women, villages, fears and hopes that during the centuries this incredible place brought to its inhabitants.
I then happily accepted Kristel proposal and we immediately started working on this “joint” project in which she was taking care of the visual part and I was in charge of the music to be somehow“synched” to these images.
One and a half year later, I am happy to present you “RIVERSCAPE”, a suite of thirteen songs which introduce to what the river has inspired me – flows, rhythms, piano notes, cinematic strings – all this is what the imaginary of the river inspired me to compose and it’s included in this album.
“RIVERSCAPE” represents an ideal evolution of my music, from 2017 Secret Book, to the most recent “FIFTH” piano, electronics and strings are colors of my palette and in this album are present as never before.
-
0:00/2:37
-
Riverscape 2:310:00/2:31
-
Be in the moment 3:070:00/3:07
-
River's voice 1:330:00/1:33
-
Colorful Joy 1:510:00/1:51
-
River flows 3:100:00/3:10
-
Isolated 2:170:00/2:17
-
0:00/2:00
-
Spring tales 1:480:00/1:48
-
Discoveries 2:390:00/2:39
-
When Autumn comes 2:330:00/2:33
-
Water has memories 2:150:00/2:15
-
Morning walk 2:510:00/2:51