Mosaic - Miniatures 1995 - DR 12

A solo project by Beppe Crovella from Arti E Mestieri

BEPPE CROVELLA - All music written & Orchestrated
FURIO CHIRICO - Drums
MIGUEL ANGEL ACOSTA - Lyrics(34,39)
ARMANDO BORG - Percussion
FABRIZIO FRATUCELLI - Distorted Guitar
MAURIZIO PEROSA - Lyrics(3,5,9,19,24)

In Composing this album I've followed the idea of undertaking an exciting adventure in creating brief"progressive"composition,with birth,development and end in a very short time: the equivalent of a miniature, that's a complete picture, well defined in every detail, in a small space.
At the same time I've felt the need of expanding some of my musical frontiers,using musical tools and moods in a way I have never tried before, without forgetting,as always, to put feeling before tecnique,emotions behind the notes. Theapproach to these 40 compositions was that every one of them should have its peculiar identity,sometime similar,other times completely different, to all the others. It's been a very long work,that took a great amount of time and I'd like to thank all the artists that contributed to it: from the vocal parts of Lalli, a singer from the Italian underground movement of the 80/90, to Miguel Angel Acosta a folk singer from Argentina,who contributed lyrics on"Reverdecerà",and to his "dreamin" son Lautaro; from the drumming of ex-companion in "Arti&Mestieri", Furio Chirico, to the drum parts of Charlie Morgan,Clyde Stubblefielf and Christen Jansson and Armando Borg on percussion: from the distorted guitar of Fabrizio Fratucelli, to the heartbeats of Coralie Rapa and Andrea Grosso;from the lyrics of italian poet Maurizio Perosa (with a tune in "Piemontese", my dialect) to the painter Pier Giuseppe Ocleppo, with his great ability to portray my mental images and expand them with his sensitivity; from my collaborator in Synergy, Mauro Loggia, always there to do the right thing at the right time, to Mr. Imago,Franco Vassia, the final scene-painter of the package of my progressive albums. I played all keyboards and sampled instruments. -

Beppe Crovella.