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Neffertiti is a composition I wrote for a dear friend of mine,
his name is Neff.
It is a tribute to the idea of friendship and freedom within friendship.
In fact, the solo part of this song is total interplay.
There is no pre-written solo chord progression, it is 100% interplay
right because there was this idea of expressing total freedom without ending up playing free jazz.
"Dav"
"Dav" is a danish word and it means "Hello", is one of the different ways to say "Hello"
It is usually used when you meet somebody you don't really know
but when is a child saying this word, this one acquires joyful sound, a joyful energy
and it can really make your day!
The intro of this tune for example, wants to tell the way how I perceive that joyful sound
The entire tune is in 11/8 and quite articulated in the themes
with the intention of creating a music contrast between energy projected by adults, often more crystalized and the one projected by children, usually free of mind patterns.
The solo parts of this tune are inspired by this kind of freedom, the freedom that children naturally express and which can teach a lot to adults.
"Against" is one of the latest tunes I wrote for this CD
and is about the feeling that people and circumstances are "working" against you
and changing that perception in one's thinking.
"Into" is a short but deep ballad
"Into" is when you find yourself in your place of perfect peace
in the middle of the night surrounded by beautiful silents smoothly broken by sounds of a jazz ballad
it is just a moment, it is the present moment, when you get lost in the present moment
"Flame in Blue" was conceived as the extension of "Into".
It is the awakening from that "just a moment", a Blue/Latin flame originating and raising from the source tone: the silent.
That is the way how this tune came out, dancing with the silent - yes -dancing with the Silent.
"Illegal" deals with the plight of illegal aliens
and while I was composing this tune, my main question was:
is their wish for a better life to be considered an illegality?
So, in the process of composing the main theme, I was trying to imagine the constant fear they live with
and how I could translate that feeling in music.