‘Hands’, a sound journey between classical music and soundtracks

Eleven pieces for piano and other instruments, a sound journey that ranges between contemporary classical music and modern symphonism with forays into the world of soundtracks. A work that arises from free artistic expression, free from market constraints and capable of deeply moving the listener.

Stefania Graziani releases ‘Hands’an album that marks a new chapter in his career and collaboration with Tony Carnevale, first work of the Anora Project a project dedicated to the promotion of an innovative vision of music and artistic training, based mainly on artistic collaboration, understood as an exchange of experiences, stimuli, creativity and humanity, extended to all expressive languages ​​and, above all, free: dance, audiovisual, cinema, theatre, exhibitions, readings and everything that can include the use of music.

‘Hands’ is also a tribute to female creativity: the album tells the story of the compositional collaboration and the artistic relationship between two artists, a man and a woman, which led to the creation of a work where both, united and distinct, recognize each other. Meaning that it is possible to overcome the many sad stories of women whose creativity was clouded or crushed by negative relationships with the men who were close to them. The peculiarity of ‘Hands’ lies in the compositional approach, defined by Carnevale as “integral composition”.

It is a poetic attitude, which Carnevale, in addition to having fully realized since his first album ‘Risonanze’ and in the recent ‘Tu che mi pus understand’, he has already expressed in detail in his book presented in 2023 at the Nuvola in Rome at ‘More books, more free’ ‘Beyond the notes – a non-rational approach to music’.

It is therefore a project that begins with the idea-image, involving every phase of the creative process in the belief that sound processing is also part of the compositional process.

Artistically speaking, in a more general sense, it is the proposal of a composition process similar to that of the modeling of malleable materials, in which the form is defined progressively and simultaneously with the composition but, unlike these, produces a completed “immaterial” work. The title of the album ‘Hands’, represented in thecover image of the very young artist Lorenzo Graziani, brings with it many readings: it is a manifesto that celebrates the importance of hands, the hands we use to “do”, hands that follow the movement of thought to “concretely create artistic forms”, hands that therefore express a fusion between mind and body . It is an invitation to reject the temptation of abstract art or art delegated to artificial intelligence.

‘Hands’ reiterates the need to defend and enhance a “making artistic craftsmanship”is a tribute to the knowledge that is acquired through experience, to the value of doing in order to learn to do.

‘Hands’ is Stefania Graziani’s first album released on ‘Soundtrack Records’, with which Carnevale published his previous album ‘Tu che mi pus understand’, a new record label that strongly believes in the artistic project of AnoraProject. The album was created thanks to the support of‘Anora’ Association, founded by Tony Carnevale and Stefania Graziani with the aim of promoting a new vision of music and artistic education.

By Editor

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