We were invited by Salvatore Motta and Astrid Juliano(Colectivo Erante) to spend an afternoon in the Atelier of Vicky Possin(Moreno’s Family), it was the 8th of Februry 2026.

Those were Mayneth’s reflections after some days:

“Recuerdos de la Alhambra is not just a piece: it is a state of memory.

In this video I share this music together with Dario Chillemi, Italian guitarist, Sicilian master, with whom time seems to fall back on itself. Our strings dialogue from listening, from the silence that supports every note.
The work of Francisco Tárrega lives in that infinite tremolo that deceives the ear and suspends the beat: an illusion of continuity, of water that never falls completely.
In bringing it to the Venezuelan cuatro, the music does not disguise itself: it changes wood, changes accent, but retains nostalgia intact.
It’s not a transcript.
It’s an intimate translation.
The same idea dictated with other hands.
The same memory that runs through another sound body.
Europe and America that meet in a single breath.”

                 Mayneth Espina

Recorded by Wendy Salcedo with iphone + zoom iMic.
Pictures by Angelica Ramirez and Salvatore Motta.

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May my Music instill Peace and Harmony in the World!

Check out Dario Chillemi’s partitures in the new page called Scores.

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Dario Chillemi’s Biography.

Ordi l’Alchimie, alias Dario Chillemi, is a musician and researcher born in Catania(1980), Sicily.

He enjoys composition and free improvisation, playing ancient music and music from other countries.

The music he plays is unique and has influences from different styles: classic, jazz, ethnic…everything in 6 strings.

Listening to Dario Chillemi’ playing is like having a trip into your own consciousness.Dario Chillemi, an artist always evolving, considers that music and art are the only ways for pure communication.

Dario is Doctor in Jazz, he graduated in 2009 at the Jazz University in Trapani, Sicily.
He presented a thesis on African music, especially on the Kora, the African lute harp, of which he transcribed the ancient songs transmitted to him by Jali Moulaye Diebate, a musician with whom he has been collaborating since 2004, forming the duet called “Julutan Saba” and the world music ensemble called “Afro Bougna Band”.

In 2010 the Julutan Saba duet was guest of the well-known program “Stanza della Musica” of Radio Rai Tre, where he performed live songs with Jali Moulaye Diebate.

He has so far self-produced four albums:
”L’inganno di Fra Campana”(2002), “Kamarria”(2003), “Equilibrium”(2008) and “D(i)ario Chillemi – A Bridge to the past”(2012). “Face the Fear”(2016) is a single produced in Berlin in 2016, which is also a field for the research.
The “Face the Fear” project is a very innovative approach to the research between music and philosophy, what he calls the “Musimatemagica”, or, more recently, “Musimatefisica”.
The result of the research is a circus ballet called “Face the Fears the Dreams appears”.

Dario Chillemi played the guitar on “Silinka”, the album produced by Jali Moulaye Diebate on 2014.

On the 5th of february 2024 he created a new album named “Ordi l’Alchimie”, a unique collection of classic guitar records in the Ipogeo’s cave in Ortigia (Syracuse) during year 2018.

He likes to travel around, after many years of intense artistic activity in Berlin, he bought a van to start a new project called “Accidental Rituals”.

From this experience Radio Colomba was born, “the Immaterial Goods Catcher”; in the last years he recorded many concerts, performances, interviews or just stories from the people he encountered on his way.

On 2020 Radio Colomba project has been financed by the S.I.A.E., the italian copyright society, in order to create a “Fine Listening Center – Sound Massage Mobile Station” in the van, and to develop the new concept of “radio” he has in mind.

On March 2021 he invented the “Sound Cover”, a cover full of speakers to apply on the human bodies.

During the year 2023 Dario Chillemi began collaborating with the Vrije University in Brussel, actively taking part in three art and science symposiums, called “System at Play”. This experience greatly benefited his creativity, giving him a boost towards his “Musimetaphysical” studies.