A few months ago my good friend Marco “Caplaz” Capellazzi – which is not only a great musician, but also an oustanding visual artist – and I joined forces to write the closing piece to his experimental album: “Fatberg”.
A few months earlier, he asked me to compose a short track that could conjure the cosmos, starting from a riff that he wrote for another piece named “Cosmic Modesty“.
Despite this starting point, he wanted something completely different from anything he had written for the album. So, I reinterpreted and performed the short phrase with two harps and I built up some tension with an increasingly tick blend of the orchestra and voice, complemented with electronic sounds.
However, I felt that the piece couldn’t be complete without Caplaz performing on it. So, I’ve asked him to come to my studio and improvise a few lines with my guitar, which I’ve then processed and mixed with everything else.
The aim of this game was to feel free and experiment as only two teenagers could…So, during the session we gave ourselves the fictitious names of John and Jack…and we pretended to be 16 years old.
I rarely had more fun and I can’t wait to do it again…Maybe when we will be out of this Covid nightmare?