A few years ago I decided to go in the woods to find my friend Genji. I gave him this name because of his almond eyes: I told him as a joke that he looked like Shining Genji, the protagonist of The Tale of Genji, a Japanese novel of the Heian era, that I read some years ago while I was studying Japanese language. My friend Genji decided to refuse humankind, his wickedness, his sad cunning, everything he created sneaking […]

Sometimes songs come from a strong emotion that you feel during a brief moment, a precise moment in which something is captured, wraps up and leaves a mark inside us. Feel something, an emotion that you alone  sense in front of a sunset, during a meeting, on the pages of a book. Something marks and moves you to the point of writing a poem or a song. Dust of Stars was born during one of my nightly readings, a time […]

Clouds is the first track of the album ” La fabbrica delle nuvole “, it was born one afternoon many years ago, when I was in Playa Grande, a place on the sea, where once in a while, I find refuge, I walk and look at the clouds pass over the shores of the Mediterranean. I remember that autumn afternoon there was not a soul around me, I lied down and I fell asleep in the sand dunes by the […]