MICHELE GIULIANI
Jazz & World Music Pianist and Composer
"My idea about making music is always open. Often I try to set up a strong stable nucleum with which I perform and/or I record sessions in studio, on the stage, everywhere I can. In my life I had (and I will) the chance to know a lot of musicians, visual artists, poets and dancers (every kind) and I always try to integrate them and their skills to enrich my vision and exchange emotions with themselves and the audience. That's why most of the projects I make are able to host special guests, depending on the venue where I have to play." M.G.
BEYOND THE COLOUR
The project born in the cradle of humanity, in Ethiopia. In the land that tells stories by the sky and wind.
Between two worlds, Michele Giuliani, Italian pianist and composer meets Fasika Hailu, ethiopian musician and krar player, the traditional string instrument and Rossella Giovannelli, performer who gives body to the sound with vocals and gestures making the unusual metissage so deep and theatrical.
The three artists meet in Addis Ababa down the streets full of dust blended in with herb and spices. Despite to the different musical languages and backgrounds, the trio is able to be joined for the message. A message of tradition and modernity passing by the extemporaneous improvisation and composition.
Beyond the colour tries to create an imaginary picture where the images have drawn by the strings, the hammers, the hands and bodies of the artists tracing out a dreamlike scenario from Mediterranean to the black Africa discovering the hidden rhythm of spirituality and following, as a guide, a hardly whispered voice from land to the sky, beyond the horizon, beyond the borders, beyond the difference, beyond the colour.
Michele Giuliani, piano
Fasika Hailu, kirar
Rossella Giovannelli, vocals/dance
ROOTS
Michele Giuliani & Reunion Platz
Reunion Platz is a jazz and world music trio collective founded and leaded by Michele Giuliani. The band walks on a way across the contamination of styles, from jazz to the african rhythms, a personal way to think the world music. The original compositions by Michele Giuliani,
try to find out his own roots embracing other cultures, especially the African one, making the live show extraordinarily emotional.
The hypnotic rhythmic textures of Cesare Pastanella’s African and Cuban percussions, interweave with the energetic and incessant bass pulsation of Marcello Piarulli, with jazz piano improvisations and evocative themes from Mediterranean to Africa.
Michele Giuliani, piano/vocals
Marcello Piarulli, bass guitar
Cesare Pastanella, percussions/vocals
SHOSHOLOZA Collective
Shosholoza, South Africa's ethnic idiom, means "Give space to your next", "go ahead" and It is a traditional song urging the joy of living, facing the difficulties of life through the courage and sharing with each other.
The musical collective consisting of 8 musicians and inspired by the South African jazz music, pays tribute to this idea and dedicates the entire album to its most representative figure, Nelson Mandela.
Shosholoza Collective immerses you in engaging rhythms and melodies from jazz, afro and ethnic music, creating different scenarios through a mantra way to rivisit tradition, extemporaneous composition and improvisation.
Shosholoza draws pictures of a colourful musical journey mixing together the atmosphere of the African village with scents of the "red ground" until the Metropolitan suburbs of smoky clubs when a time, jazz was a black music played for dancing.
Michele Giuliani, piano
Andrea Spinelli, tenor sax
Giuliano Di Cesare, trumpet
Michele Marzella, trombone
Rossella Giovannelli, vocals
Valerio Zaccaro, flute & percussions
Marcello Piarulli, bass guitar
Giacomo Mongelli, drums
Projects
THE LONG WAY DOWN TO THE ROOTS
Michele Giuliani plays Duke Ellington
A tribute and, at the same time, an exploratory musical journey in the universe of African-American Grandmaster Duke Ellington through his compositions more intimist. Those that tell of his relationship with ancestral African roots wrapped in an imaginary set of ideas and suggestions.
Michele Giuliani, Italian pianist and composer, undertakes, as a Piano Solo Recital, in the same trip by drawing a transfigured profile of the American composer and retraces his steps trying to go further through improvisation and extemporaneous composition, revealing his own cultural diversity, the different roots but expressing the same sense of belonging.
Michele Giuliani, piano solo
