Snailspace, by Simone Graziano

Snailspace

by Simone Graziano

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1.	Tbilisi 05:41	buy track
2.	Accident A 04:21	buy track
3.	Accident R 05:47	buy track
4.	Emicrania 04:25	buy track
5.	Neri 06:37	buy track
6.	July 2015 06:21	buy track
7.	Aleph 3 08:38	buy track
8.	Vignastein 06:44	buy track
9.	Slowbye 03:02	buy track

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Simone Graziano is considered one of the most forward-thinking musicians in Italy. His latest project sees him performing on piano, synth and Fender Rhodes, joined by Francesco Ponticelli (double bass and synth) and New-York based drummer Tommy Crane. Simone Graziano is currently touring with Frontal and Purple Whales, and he will be touring to promote Snailspace starting in February 2018.

This fourth studio album by Graziano is an exploration of slowness as a form of rebellion and draws insipration from a story by Luis Sepúlveda, The Story of a Snail Who Discovered the Importance of Being Slow. The main character of this novel is a snail named Rebelde (Rebel) which is kicked out of its group and begins a personal odyssey to explore the meaning of slowness. In this way, the lone Rebelde discovers a hidden world, coming to terms with the importance of silence and slowness.

Simone Graziano started composing the music for “Snailspace” in 2015 and its long gestation is appropriate considering the subject matter. This slowness does not refer to the rhythm or tempo of the music – Graziano explains – but rather to the patient process of imagining and composing it. As a snail gradually moves forward, its direct contact with the surface reveals details that would not be apparent to other animals. In the same way, slowness in the creative process allows music to develop in an organic way, revealing things we may not have known.

Simone Graziano’s music is compositionally rich and varied, moving naturally between simplicity and complexity. Every single track of “Snailspace” evolves gradually in subtle ways, often making clever use of slight changes reminiscent electronic music, balanced by occasional rapid and violent transformations arriving without warning.

The first track is Tbilisi and it was written during a cold December night on a piano with two damaged keys (#F and B): as a result, these two notes are obsessively repeated during the track. From the elegiac melody of Accident A, the second track, “Snailspace” moves towards Accident R, both hypnotic and hysterical. Emicrania is an emotional crescendo based upon cells that permeate the whole track, while Neri is dedicated to childhood and, like a lullaby, leads to the dreamlike atmosphere of July 2015. Aleph 3, is a genuine graft between electronic music and jazz which morphs into its mysterious final segment, an arcane ballad linked to the next track: Vignastein, dedicated to encyclopedic Italian music critic, Giuseppe Vigna. The album closes with “Slowbye”, written by Graziano and Ponticelli on a muggy August night. With its spare, electronic melody, Rebelde doesn’t really seem to find an end or resting place, but rather a cyclical, renewing consciousness.

“Snailspace” is permeated with influences which reflect Graziano’s love of literature: the above-mentioned Sepúlveda, but also Jorge Louis Borges and his visionary tales in Aleph 3, and Oliver Sacks, who in “Migraine” examines the ritual aspect to recurrent headaches. But “Snailspace” can be considered itself as a tale in the language of music: a novel enclosed in a dream or a confined space, but at the same time able to embrace the vastity of human experience.

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released March 28, 2018

Simone Graziano - piano, synth, fender rhodes
Francesco Ponticelli - double bass, synth
Tommy Crane - drums

Produced by Simone Graziano, Valeria Fangareggi
Executive Producer: Marco Valente
Recorded at Artesuono, Cavalicco (UD) on april 2-3 2017
Engineer: Stefano Amerio
Cover Photo: Caterina Di Perri

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Simone Graziano Florence, Italy

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Embracing The Future

Jun 2021
Sexuality

Nov 2019
Snailspace

Mar 2018
Trentacinque

Sep 2015
Frontal

May 2013

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