Francesco Fournier Facio - Sound of Light and Shadow (Hi-Resolution Audio)

1 Preludio - 6,45 
2 Crystal nights - 3,46
3 When my mind goes there - 5,17
4 Rainy days - 5,07
5 Colours of the sea - 5,15
6 Notturno - 6,23
7 Dreaming - 4,57
8 Bailando en las tinieblas - 4,36
9 Beautiful obsession - 5,28
10 A glare in the mist - 5,32
11 Sound of light and shadow - 8,34

Conceived, recorded and produced by Giulio Cesare Ricci
Recorded at Terry and Gary’s Casale Collazzone (Pg), August 2013
Artistic direction: Gaston Fournier Facio
Recording assistant: Paola Liberato
Valve microphones: Neumann U47, U48, M49
Mike pre-amplifiers, cables ( line, digital, microphone,supply): Signoricci
Recorded in stereo DSD on the Pyramix Recorder using dCS A/D and D/A converters
Photos by: Paola Liberato
Special thanks to Terry and Gary for hosting the recording

As no editing has been made, all tracks on this record are heard as they were performed

Francesco Fournier Facio was born in Rome on the 8th of July 1996. He currently studies composition with Riccardo Panfili and has attended masterclasses led by composers Fabio Vacchi and Luca Lombardi. In 2010 he attended courses in composition (with Peter Copley) and salsa music (with Bosco de Oliveira) at the Dartington International Summer School and in 2012 he was an unenrolled student in Giorgio Battistelli’s composition course at the Accademia Chigiana di Siena. In August 2012, in Buenos Aires, the Argentinian Orquesta Juvenil del Bicentenario,
led by Eduardo Hubert, performed in Buenos Aires the world premiere of Fournier’s El Grito del Ángel for string orchestra and percussion. In June 2013 the Accademia Filarmonica Romana commissioned him a new piece for soprano and ensemble, ...and be lost like me , to be performed at its Music Festival Il bosco di Eros, where it was world-premiered by the Imago Sonora Ensemble. In the same year he attended Luis Bacalov’s composition for film course at the Accademia Chigiana di Siena; as well as a composition masterclass at the Université de Montréal taught by Fabio Vacchi and Jean-Jacques Nattiez. Fournier also plays keyboards in two rock bands. Between 2011 and 2013 he wrote 7 nocturnes and 7 preludes, a selection of which is presented in this album.

..."I could write extensively about this album, describe the moments and circumstances that led me to compose these eleven pieces. I could explain the influences and motivations that drove me forward. But what is really significant is the fact that, for the past two years, each of these pieces has been like a page in a diary: written in one go and in a very personal way. Somewhere to pour my joys and disappointments, loves and friendships. I do hope that between the light and shadow of the notes, the listener might be able to live, at least partially, what I experienced while writing."    [Francesco Fournier Facio]