HEART/STRINGS - Lucia Minetti

HEART/STRINGS (CVLD318)

Lucia Minetti, voice 

Available in: HD files, CD

1 - Memories (Oscar del Barba - Stefano Bortolussi)  3:21
2 - Rencontre (Oscar del Barba - Luca Ragagnin)  2:13
3 - Lullaby (Oscar del Barba - Enrico Remmert)  4:18
4 - So Look at me (Oscar del Barba -Francesca Tini Brunozzi)  4:15
5 - Per sempre naviganti (Oscar del Barba - Giuseppe Grattacaso)  4:24
6 - In The Whisper of Sighs (Oscar del Barba - Stefano Valanzuolo)  3:33
7 - I Will (Oscar del Barba - Stefano Bortolussi)  3:48
8 - Il nostro amor (Oscar del Barba - Dario Voltolini)  4:07
9 - Highway of the mind (Oscar del Barba - Stefano Bortolussi )  3:48
10 - In volo (Oscar del Barba - Giuseppe Grattacaso)  4:49
11 - Como um tormento ( Oscar del Barba - Marco Bortoli)  4:17
12 - Il ponte (Oscar Del Barba - Dario Voltolini)  3:28
 
       Tot. time:  46:29

Original music & arrangements: Oscar del Barba
Poems: Stefano Bortolussi, Marco Bortoli, Giuseppe Grattacaso, Luca Ragagnin, Enrico Remmert, Francesca Tini Brunozzi, Stefano Valanzuolo, Dario Voltolini.

Lucia Minetti, voice
Quartetto Echos
Andrea Maffolini e Ida Di Vita, violins
Giorgia Lenzo, viola
Martino Maina, cello

24bit / 88.2kHz original recording, made strictly live in studio at Area Magister Studios, Preganziol, Italy, on July, 31 and August 1, 2019
Marco Lincetto choose all tube microphones Ribera R12 and R47

Production: Velut Luna
Executive Producer: Marco Lincetto
Musical Producers: Lucia Minetti & Marco Lincetto
Recording, mix and mastering: Marco Lincetto
Wordmaster (editing & English translations): Stefano Bortolussi
Translation "Como um tormento": Juliana Folle Beraldo
Photo: Marco Lincetto
Photo Oscar del Barba: Roberto Cavalli
Design: L'Image

When I proposed the idea of this album to Oscar del Barba and Stefano Bortolussi, I knew I was dealing with a composer of rare refinement and creativity on the one hand, and a poet for whom the musicality of verse is an essential element on the other. In short, I knew that in them I would have two companions in adventure perfectly in tune with what I had in mind: something new and at the same time a return to origins. Stefano and I collected, in addition to three of his original contributions in English, the texts of some of the best Italian poets and writers of recent years, for whom I wanted to act as a kind of inspiring muse, asking them to elaborate verses on the great themes of love, desire, distance, memory, and participating in turn with insights, variations and suggestions.
We shaped and polished the words entrusted to us, in which figures I am very fond of, such as water and travel, recur. Subsequently, we entrusted the texts to the skilled hands of Oscar, who set them to music and orchestrated them for string quartet, chiseling the notes on the verses with wisdom and profound inspiration.
But above all, I experimented, sang, and interpreted following an idea of a song that detached itself and took flight from conventions; and Stefano and Oscar listened and suggested with open minds. The result, we are convinced, is for once faithful to the initial intent: to re-establish the relationship between song and poetry, too often sacrificed today on the false altars of easy rhymes and catchiness.

An ideal travel companion is the Echos Quartet, a young group, full of enthusiasm, talent, and passion, and curious about crossover projects.
A constant guarantee is the great mastery of Marco Lincetto behind the control desk and his valuable contribution as a record producer.
This, then, is our idea of free song. Or perhaps it would be better to say "one of our ideas", as I have a feeling many more will follow.
Lucia Minetti