Frontera: Contemporary Guitar Music Inspired By Today’s World – Vito Nicola Paradiso

After writing and publishing pedagogical compositions for decades, with the wisdom of artistic maturity, I felt the need to create music which would firstly gratify myself. And so this project was born, constituted by my personal feelings and moods. Through “the Art of Sounds” I narrate about places, characters or simply about the events that have taken place in recent years, in a sort of “musical portraits” of contemporaneity. With this recording I wanted to fix a point, which is, in itself, a starting point. I wished to be not only an interpreter, but a handler of notes and a creator of sound images, constantly looking for new ideas that characterize and alternate between the poetic, the dreamy, the sarcastic and the descriptive. Apart from the solo pieces, I also wanted to include chamber and orchestral music, in which the guitar is the protagonist, together with completely different musical instruments. I admit that I have never had specific training in traditional composition, and probably I will not undertake it in the future, because I want to feel free to express my feelings and aural ideas without any academic conditioning. However, I have a strong awareness that my music arrives to the listener’s heart, before to his head. I advise everyone to enjoy this album with their eyes closed, and during a relaxing moment. Enjoy the music!