How not to end an artistic partnership? Simply by not abandoning the band! The Bluebeaters EXTRA TRAX (Caribb Roots Records/Universal)compilation was released for Record Store Day 2024. I took the band’s photo on the back cover. ENJOY!
I felt like I knew him. Maybe I had met him at a political rally. Maybe at a live show. Perhaps I simply liked that man stroking his beard because he reminded me of the people on the island of Naxos. Sigá sigá, like the fishermen at the port on a scorching hot day. Sigá sigá, before taking the first note on the piano. Sigá sigá, before thinking of singing the first word. The young people dressed in white observe him, waiting for a first hint. A single movement from the beard to the piano key and the small orchestra starts to play. <…E tutto è stato un regalo, e tutto è stato un regalo…>, the man’s voice is that of an experienced sea dog. Sonic wave after sonic wave he shows to the white-clad crew the land of gratitude that stands on the horizon. There’s still time to sail and sing before landing. The sea whispers new melodies to be sung and played…
An explosion of sonic gratitude. Fan Fath al Milanese ensemble and folk singer Vinicio Capossela introduced the audience to a musical ritual whose goal is an ancient ecstasy that can teach the contemporary world a lot. People sang “teach your children” in the Sixties and still want to do it today. After all, we are all children who want to listen to stories in music and dance.
(Special thanks to LabArca Teatro Musica and Sponz Fest)
My cover story for Swiss magazine Pnp, January 2024 issue. I took the photos for the interview with James Senese in typical Blue Note style – before starting the session James encouraged me: <Ué, fammi bello come quelli della Blue Note!>. The chromatic sonic shades of jazz embrace the whole rainbow color palette but… Jazz photography speaks in black and white as Francis Wolff taught…
A new frame for a new tour (Non sento più Tour hosted by Kashmir Music) with… the amazing The Bluebeaters… The photo session (see below) dates back to June 1, 2023, during the show date of Trinity Tour.
The collaboration with The Bluebeaters goes on: A black and white frame (taken at Blumusica, Turin, Spring 2022) chosen for the cover of the new single Trinity originally recorded by Italian composer Franco Micalizzi. Musicians portrayed in black and white on a red background: A classic.
Happy to be part of the fellowship… My b&w frame for The Bluebeaters music-cassette Live in Köln 2017 (by Dirt Tapes) inside sleeve.
Collaborating with The Bluebeaters: it meant marrying my cultural background to that of the musicians and identifying a visual and sonic continuity between “me” and “them”.
PRESENT: Turin and Milan, today.
PAST: Coventry and London in the late Seventies.
A melting pot of… Sounds, experiences and dreams: all recorded in black and white… as it came.
CLICK after CLICK… Coventry and London… CLICK after CLICK… Milan and Turin… An exciting roundtrip. CLICK after CLICK… The Bluebeaters and… The soul of The Specials…
My b&w portrait of Italian singer and composer Manuel Agnelli chosen for Premi David di Donatello 2022 (Thanks to my dear friend Francesca Risi)
In FUJI X PASSION, November 2021 issue, Taking pictures during a rally: Individual tales and collective narrative in the eyes of a photographer, my photographic essay. ENJOY!
TELLING WITH MY EYES 