Olmo Chittò - Vibraphone 
Riccardo Barba - Piano 
Nicola Ziliani - Doublebass

On September 6, 2013, after planning for several months, I left home headed for Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Mongolia. Just three days in, all the maps, sheets, and timetables had vanished. Still, the destination remained the same, as did the idea of measuring by land the distance between my home and the Mongolian capital, broadly following the Istanbul-Tehran-Samarqand-Kashgar-Beijing route.

The urgency to express in a coherent form the experience of the journey and its unpredictable fluctuation comes to life in the silent hours of waiting with a thumb up: “Di Passaggio”, born from an intimate dialogue with the road and transformed into a more general musical reflection on the sense of “being” and “going”, is the idea of offering seven landscapes to as many composer friends, to establish a dialogue on the horizons that stirred my inner monologue, taking them out of their solitary dimension and enlivening them with another look, with the hope to throw them even further.

Or maybe I just wanted a bit of company and asked some friends to turn their gaze eastward with me, for a moment.

photo: Andrea Roscher artwork: Keita Francesco Nakasone