Music

“Lala Concert” is one of the most intense musical experience I’ve ever lived!
Elodie Blume, apart to be one of my best and funniest friend, is truly the greatest voice I’ve ever heard,
so creative and supportive!

Live concert @ Lala Festival (Negenharrie, Kiel, DE)

Elodie Blume_ the “Voice”
Dario Chillemi_Classical Guitar and Voice
…you may listen to the Birds spontaneously singing with us!

Recorded on the 10 July 2021
except for track 7 “Tramonto”, recorded on the 14th of July 2021 in Platz der Republik (Hamburg).

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“Ordi l’Alchimie” is a collections of records performed by Dario Chillemi in the Ipogeo’s cave in Ortigia (Syracuse), during the years 2018.

Those were hot days in the magnificent piazza Duomo of Ortigia, and there was Dario Chillemi, aka Ordi l’Alchimie, spreading the sound of his classic guitar all around, in symbiosis with the stones and rests of old civilizations, catching subtle informations from the passengers’ears.

In the Piazza Duomo of Syracuse there’s a small door from where you have access to a system of underground tunnels, at the entrance there were workers to welcome the tourist visitors, who, fascinated by the guitar of Dario, one day invited him to go down and play in the big cave, they called “Cisterna”.

From that day he began to visit the Ipogeo regularly, experiencing a state of trance with the psico-acoustics of his impro-meditative guitar in the big cave.
He had also important guest as Samuel Lundstrom, brilliant violinist from Sweden.

“…this is an experiment between Music and Matephysic… I use the street art performance as a tool to collect subtile informations from the collective consciousness…I guess what it happens between player and listeners, especially in the street, it’s a deep hands to ears exchange of humanity…”

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About the tracks:

“Quantum Leap”

original track name: jump in the cave3-29 4-00 PM.wave

Evocation of the Spirit of the Child, who’s happy in the Mother’s womb.

The main melody played in this recording is “Bambini Scatenati” (D.Chillemi 2000). I changed the title because this time the improvisation took a new path, the child is in an idyllic state, he is inside the belly (the cave).

“I love to dig into the possibilities of conceptual performing art. It moves you inside, all the cells change their status when watching/listening a fine art piece…”

The steps you may hear are Marc Tamiso Cappello and Lori dancing.
The violin strings you may listen is coming from the museum music diffusion…!

“quantum leap”
noun

• An abrupt, large increase, especially in knowledge.
• The discontinuous change of the state of an electron in an atom or molecule from one energy level to another.
• An abrupt change.
  *The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

The guitar of this tune was handcrafted by Davide Lo Verde on year 2017, while in the other recordings I play the guitar “Carmela” handcrafted by Santo Lo Verde on 1991.

original track name: jump in the cave3-29 4-00 PM.wave

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“Il Volo”

“Il Volo”, inspired by a lost poem written by Egizio Nanè, poet and friend from Syracuse.
I started to play this sequence of chords during year 2000.

(Cmaj7/9 – Ebmaj7/5b)x3 – A7/9/Sus4

After repeating the sequence many times, moment of free impro, then I play the same 1 tone up (D).

For the intro and the final of the Ipogeo’s version(2018), I took the seeds of “The Magician” (E Lidian).

There’s a stylized version of this tune in Kamarria(2002).

Original track name: ipogeo 1_july_2018 7-25 6-36 PM.wav

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“Conversation with L.”

“Conversation with L.” is a three chapters improvisation act.

L. represents Lucifer, the Light, or whatever you may imagine…
“L” as the axis of Space/Time in its eternal game of bridging distances.

“Close your eyes and all distances will dissolve”.

Original track name: ipogeo 2_july_2018 7-25 6-58 PM.wav

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“A Prostitute’s Prayer”

Samuel Lundström played the violin, and there’s a distant choral music played by the museum’speakers.

The highly vibrant lyrics sung in ”A Prostitute’s prayer” are written by Ioanah Nechiti, rumenian poet and researcher, who I met while playing in Gendarmenmarkt(Berlin, 2012). She wrote this poetry after a long meditative music/reflections session.

Original track name: A prostitute prayer_in the cave with Lundström 4-18 6-01 PM.aif

A Prostitute’s prayer
lyrics by Ioanah Nechiti

Eyes of the painter
dance of the dancer
hands of the player
thoughts of the poet
sweat of the peasant
passion of the gipsy

POURED INTO THE MOUTH OF THE ANIMAL (x2)
could you give me all that…that…
that hasn’t occurred yet.

It will not fall
for all that has not risen yet
it will not rain
the sun that hasn’t shone yet
it will not die
the life that wasn’t born yet

For all that… that hasn’t been yet.

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Played and recorded (with iRode XY) by Dario Chillemi.
Mixed and mastered by Maurizio Curcio.

Album cover by Alfredo Romano, 
– “Feritoie”. 
– “Angelis suis mandavit de te”.

Photos of the exhibition “Ipogei di Siracusa”, 2007.

“Quantum Leap” track cover by Jacopo Pennisi. 
The man with the stick is Andrea “Lapsus” Pennisi, fantastic poet from AcirReale; he doesn’t need the stick anymore.

“Ordi l’Alchimie”, the anagram of Dario Chillemi, was pyrographed by Danio Catanuto.

released on the 22nd of August 2024.

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Check out Radio Colomba, there you can find more music produced by Dario Chillemi, for example “Sysiphos”, or many other live-records, from other great bands and musicians, too.

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I recorded this album to celebrate my 20 years of music experience, that’s why is a Diario(Diary).

It has an historical approach, I play a circle of musical pieces that goes back into the history of Music, from Contemporary to Primitive music, passing by Baroque and Renesans…
The physical cd has some blank pages(a diary) for the listeners to write or paint on.
If you like to have it via-mail please contact me!

Recorded by Phil Freeborn except track n.2, 7 and 20 by Dario Chillemi, n.21 and 22 by Ralph Goldkind. Mastered by Phil Freeborn and Diego Ferri.
Lay out and illustration by Marta Collica.

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“Equilibrium” is a collection of my personal guitar compositions, an invitation to experience me in solo concert mode, only one, Cancion de Cuna, is from Leo Brouwer. With the use of special harmonies and rhythms I intend to translate the beauty of movement and dance, and translate through guitar the eternal swing and dance between opposite poles.

Style: solo guitar, ensemble guitars, contemporary classic and jazz.

Instruments: guitars(classic, 12 strings, electric).

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In this album I explore the tensions and possible relationships between the sounds of musical instruments and the sounds of nature.

Instruments: guitars(classic, 12 strings, electric), water games, keyboards, piano, various objects(broken metronome, radio), bells, jew’s harp, Kora(african harp).

Photos by Matteo Baro Matta.
All Tracks remastered by Phil Freeborn, April 2012.
Cover restyled by Marta Collica, Maj 2012.

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Fra Campana is a monk who rings the bells of the church, but he doesn’t know why, he just does what the superiors tell him to do. He influences the lives of the town with his playing, and unwittingly creates a deception.

Style: experimental, contemporary jazz, guitars ensembles, descriptive music.

Instruments: guitars(classic, 12 strings, electric), violin, double bass, jew’s harp, piano and baby pianos, keyboard, bells drumkit, various objects, washbass, voices.

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