Andrea Chimenti “Yuri”, nuovo album – new album

Andrea Chimenti‘s new album YURI is finally due for tomorrow and I am delighted for many reasons, even personal, as I wrote the lyrics of the only English song contained, “A Sweet Fall”. But I am especially delighted about the beauty of this album, produced by Andrea’s son Francesco Chimenti, a devastating talent, with his equally skilled band mate Davide Andreoni, and recorded and mixed by amazing Stefano Amerigo Santoni, who all play in Italy’s most emerging post rock band, the Sycamore Age.
A visual artist that I love, Sara Zanoni, prepared the 10 teasers of this album, which you can see all together at the link below. Enjoy!

Daniel Karlsson: 2014 Best Jazz Band!!!!


Sono talmente felice da non riuscire a fermare le lacrime di gioia: Daniel Karlsson ha appena vinto il più prestigioso e importante premio di jazz svedese, l'equivalente di un'Oscar: lo Jazzkatten.

Daniel Karlsson Trio just won the most important and prestigious Swedish award for Jazz: the "Jazzkatten". This is so well deserved, and I can't stop crying my tears of joy….
 

“Midsommar” selected for the Film Festival “Corporación Festival de Cine e Infancia y Adolescencia”

I'm SO happy!! My shortfilm "Midsommar" has been selected again!! This time to participate to a Film Festival entirely dedicated to children and teenagers, the "Corporación Festival de Cine e Infancia y Adolescencia".
The festival will take place as of October 20th in some amazing venues.. too bad I can't go!
Soooo nice!

Midsommar selected for the International Women’s Short Film Festival!

Wonderful piece of news for me, making me feel so emotional happy, and proud… Yje Chennai (Madras) International Women’s Short Film Festival in India selected Midsommar to be short listed as best shortfilm for their 2014 edition!

Tomorrow, October 6th, il will be screened together with the other 24 competing films.. I’m thrilled and delighted!

New video “Mrs Mermaid” – Daniel Karlsson Trio

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Finalmente online il mio più recente (ma sicuramente non l'ultimo) video per l'eccelso pianista svedese Daniel Karlsson (in questo caso per il suo trio, per l'album "Fusion for Fish"), a mio avviso il più bell'album del 2014! Ne siamo molto soddisfatti, è stato lungo e laborioso, girato in 3 set diversi in città diverse, in Veneto e a Stoccolma, con l'incognita Venezia che a giugno può essere veramente micidiale ma.. eccolo!
La GRANDISSIMA sorpresa è arrivata quando ho saputo che era stato scelto per venire presentato a Stoccolma alla serata di presentazione/lancio dei nuovi video musicali per la stagione, un evento importante che viene organizzato dalla IFPI, ente nazionale che si occupa di promozione musicale. Un ENORME onore per me, e sono felicissima per Daniel Karlsson perché è una rarità assoluta che la musica jazz venga selezionata per eventi di questo genere (pur essendo un genere adorato nel paese, parliamo sempre della nazione di Avicii e Lykke Li). Lui si merita questo molto molto altro, e lo avrà.
Sono felice di questo riconoscimento e anche del successo rapidissimo che sta avendo questo video (630 visualizzazioni in sei giorni per un video jazz sono tantissime!) non solo per me e i musicisti, ma anche per tutti gli altri artisti e professionisti che hanno contribuito a questo lavoro con passione contagiosa, e in primis alla mia grandissima amica e sorella Andreina Costa, che ha vinto ogni comprensibile inibizione per fare da sirena seminuda in una Venezia impacchettata di turisti. I ringraziamenti sono nei titoli di coda a parte Giulia Fazzi, che mannaggia a me mi è sfuggita! Ma il suo nome è nel testo sotto il video. Mi ha perdonata però, perché è sorella anche lei 🙂
Grazie a tutt@!

 

My latest (but not last!) video for the great Swedish pianist Daniel Karlsson, this time for his track Mrs Mermaid, again from the majestic album Fusion fo Fish, for me the best 2014 album. We are very happy and proud it it, it's taken quite some time to shoot and edit, with three differnet locations, two in Italy (Agordo and Venice) and one in Stockholm, to catch Andread Hourdakis, but we're thru!
The BIG surprise came from the fact that this video was selected by a Swedish organization within music industry called IFPI (http://www.ifpi.org/) to be hosted in Stockholm during the musical video kick-off for the coming season. It is a HUGE honor for me to have been picked, and I am very happy for Daniel Karlsson because it is a real rarity for jazz music to be selected for this presentation.
He really deserves all this, and much much more.
I am delighten by this recognition and also by the fast success this video is obtaining (630 viewers in six days is quote a lot for a jazz video!), not only for me and the musicians, but also for everyone that passionately contributed to this work with contagious passion, above all my friend and sister Andreina Costa, who won all her understandable inhibitions to act as a half-naked mermaid in tourists-packed Venice. And my thank also to Giulia Fazzi, another true sister, whom I forgot to mention in the credits.. boooo on me…. but she is in the written credits below the video. She has apparently forgiven me though!
Thanks to all!

Daniel Karlsson on Dagens Nyheter

I turned 50 on the 22nd of August. I was feeling “worried” about this birthday in some ways, but it turned out to be the funnies, sweetest and most memorable I experienced in my life so far, with Daniel Karlsson releasing his new “Duo” album with genius Thomas Markusson on double bass, playing for me. And in the morning, as soon as I woke up, I read this interview that Karlsson released for Sweden’s most prominent daily newspaper, Dagens Nyheter, where he tells a lot about me and our partnership.
Best birthday ever 🙂