Sky Tales Cesare Picco

• 1Daydream02:58
• 2Dance Before Flying06:07
• 3Full Moon04:23
• 4UP02:59
• 5Jupiter Loves Venus04:14
• 6Eagle04:57
• 7Sky Tales04:06
• 8Histoire De Nuages04:12
• 9Contact04:01
• 10Mas Luz02:37
• 11Without Humans03:56
• Total Runtime44:30

Info for Sky Tales

"Sky Tales" is a journey that begins with a daydream. "Daydream", is the first single of the the album "Sky Tales". A simple and joyful piano rhythm, a beat made with shrubs and leaves, the beat of the foot as the bass drum, the strings painting the first clouds. Daydreaming is necessary to prepare oneself to stand - as Ennio Flaiano would say - 'with feet firmly planted on the clouds'.

A pianist, improviser and composer as at ease among the sounds of a baroque orchestra as he is among electronic beats, Cesare Picco has always been a transversal experimenter in every musical field. Composer for soloists and orchestras such as Moscow State Symphony Orchestra, Berlin Chambers Soloists, I Virtuosi Italiani and creator of special projects linked to the world of Art such as for the Whitney Museum in New York, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo, Hangar Bicocca in Milan and Mart in Rovereto. Since 1986 he has been bringing his music to the most important theatres in the world, including Teatro Alla Scala in Milan, Auditorium in Rome, Hanoi Opera House, Kolkata Tagore Centre, Baghdad National Theatre, and to festivals such as Delhi Jazz Festival, Tokyo Jazz Festival, Abu Dhabi Festival, and collaborating with many Italian and international artists such as Naseer Shamma, Hajime Mizoguchi, Giovanni Sollima. In 2009 he created "BLIND DATE - Concert in the Dark", a unique concert in which artist and audience are immersed in absolute darkness. In 2019, he published "Sebastian" (Rizzoli), a novel dedicated to the life of J.S. Bach.

Cesare Picco, piano

Cesare Picco
Piano improviser, clavichordist, composer and writer.

He started studying piano when he was four years old and from 1986 he is author to ballets, operas, music for theatre and special projects performed worldwide.

Tradition and Experimentation have the same leading role in his music. His music has always been the result of a personal concept of art that rejects any limitations on style or inspiration. Cesare's personal musical alphabet goes across different genres, bringing to his listeners the freshness, the intensity and the power of a really strong pianism, a deep spiritual approach and the lightness of captivating melodies.

He has worked with distinguished artists such as Naseer Shamma, Rajendra Prasanna, Edmar Castaneda, Nino Josele, Giovanni Sollima, Hajime Mizoguchi, Markus Stockhausen, Yukimi Nagano, Taketo Gohara, and Italian Pop and Rock artists such as Andrea Bocelli, Luciano Ligabue, Giorgia, Samuele Bersani, Pacifico and many others. Cesare performed at most important venues worlwide, such as Teatro Alla Scala di Milano, Auditorium di Roma, Singapore Old Parliament, Hanoi Opera House, Tokyo Blue Note, Al Maidan Centre Kuwait City, Kolkata Tagore Centre, Baghdad National Theatre, Bangkok Macm Auditorium and festival such as Delhi Jazz Festival, Tokyo Jazz Festival, Abu Dhabi Festival, Mantra Festival Madrid, Umbria Jazz.

Special events with site-specific music has been performed at Venice Guggenheim Museum, Tokyo Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Milano Hangar Bicocca, Whitney Museum New York.

As a composer he has written music for solos, chamber music ensembles and orchestras such as I Virtuosi Italiani, Berlin Chamber Soloists, Moscow State Symphony Orchestra.

Since 2006 his albums have been released in Japan and he quickly became famous touring the country several times and collaborating with local artists and orchestras.

In 2009 he creates and performs the special show BLIND DATE – Concert in the dark, a live of pure improvisation in which both artist and audience are soaked in the darkness.

This album contains no booklet.