Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Music | Ludovico Einaudi

Thanks to a recommendation by Mark Newton I have been listening to Divenire by Ludovico Einaudi - a collection of piano pieces that are so fantastic and sweeping that I've had it on repeat since I downloaded it from iTunes on Saturday.
Einaudi is an amazing composer and pianist (I already had the album Echoes, bought because I initially wanted a couple of tracks and ended up loving the whole thing) and his music is incredibly moody; not in the sense of being dark and angst-ridden, rather, in the sense that it can inspire moods as all the best music can. It can uplift you, make you contemplative or imagine you're on the prow of a huge sailing ship ploughing through the waves. Wait, maybe that's just me?

It also makes me wish I'd never stopped playing the piano, or that I knew how to dance, but I did and I don't so I shall have to do what I always do with music: use it to relax, to recharge the mental batteries and to provide an avenue to daydream down, to fuel the scenes in my head by giving them their own music as they play out.

What do you use music for? Daydreaming? Blocking out the world? Background as you write/ paint/ read?

2 comments:

  1. I love music but I can rarely listen and work at the same time - I have to do one or the other!

    Hope your work has calmed down a bit at last... don't forget about us. :)

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  2. I like so much Ludovico Einaudi. Now, I'm listening "I Giorni" (2001) and I think it's a very good CD (like Divenire).

    I usually listen to this music when I paint or do something creative.

    You have a very interesting blog!
    (I feel sorry for grammatical errors, I'm Spanish)

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