Released: 2015
SSB 035 | EAN: 8018344070353 | 
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“Original Sin” offers the listener the surprise of a new sound, a real rediscovery of one of the most ancestral and natural sounds the Western history of music bequeathed us: the clavichord.
In Cesare Picco’s hands this instrument, unknown to the public as very little played in the same Baroque era, abandons every kind of stereotype and musical commonplace to embark on a path which tears down all the stylistic barriers, taking us to unexplored sound territories.
The codes of baroque music naturally match with the ones of contemporary music: cinematic, electronic and experimental.
Beside Cesare Picco, an internationally known ensemble of strings specialized in baroque music: Sezione Aurea String Quintet.
Cesare Picco described his album this way:
“I think that the sound of clavichord is one of the greatest treasures musicians have. With “Original Sin” I want to break the original sin and go against the rules imposed by the executive practice and the fundamentalisms of music, inventing new sounds connections with one purpose: taking the sound of clavichord to unexplored territories”
His album includes 8 tracks, 4 of which for clavichord and strings, two improvisations for clavichords and Wurlitzer piano, one track for strings and electronic and one for clavichord, bass and two violins.
CREDITS
Cesare Picco clavichord, Wurlitzer piano, sound designSezione Aurea Baroque String Quintet
Luca Giardini violin
Gian Andrea Guerra violin
Valentina Soncini viola
Sebastiano Severi cello
Nicola Barbieri violone
Instruments:
Cesare Picco:
clavichord (Roberto Marioni 2011 copy of Silbermann 1775)
Wurlitzer electronic piano (model 200A 1974)
Luca Giardini: violin (Don Nicola Amati, Bologna 1730)
Gian Andrea Guerra: violin (French unknown XIX c.)
Valentina Soncini: viola (Alessandro Scandroglio, Casorate Sempione 2001)
Sebastiano Severi: cello (unknown first half of XVIII c.)
Nicola Barbieri: violone (unknown first half of XVIII c.)
music by Cesare Picco
produced by Davide Rosa and Cesare Picco
recorded and mixed at Blue Spirit Recording Studio Milano by Davide Rosa and Marco Olivi
Pro-tools engineers: Federico Dascola, Francesco Borrelli
design: Fornasetti Studio
logo Serra Musicale: Luca Barcellona callygraphy