"It was early in the morning when I woke up: it was my birthday.
I knew that probably I would have received a gift that day and I was very excited.
On the table I found a small package and I immediately went to open it very carefully.
There was a red toy car inside and I started to play with it.
It was great and I could compete in a race with my friends that already had a toy car.
After a couple of days, I looked through the small plastic window of my car: there were the wheel, seats, gear level…a lot of details that I hadn’t noticed till then.
I started to dismantle the car to “explore†inside it and when I finished, the small pieces of my toy were on the table. Many nice and interesting things, which I couldn’t see before were now in front of me: small screws, mechanism and so on.
From then on, my favorite game had been to discover new objects that I could build using the components of my red toy car."
Since many years Alberto Braida is active as pianist, improviser and composer.
He has collaborated and played with musicians such as Lisle Ellis, Peter Kowald, Wadada Leo Smith, Jack Wright, John Edwards, Wilbert De Joode, John Butcher, Gino Robair, Hans Koch, Paul Lytton, Giancarlo Locatelli, Fabrizio Spera, Edoardo Marraffa, Antonio Borghini, Cristiano Calcagnile, Ab Baars, Paul Lovens, Wolfgang Fuchs, George Cremaschi, Ig Henneman, John Hughes, Liz Albee, Michael Thieke, Filippo Monico, Massimo Falascone, Luca Venitucci and many other.
He played at the Vision Festival (New York), Improvised and Otherwise Festival (New York), Uncool Festival (Poschiavo), Total Music Meeting (Berlin), Tasten Festival (Berlin), Interactivity 05 (The Haag), Free Radicals at the Red Rose (London), Music Unlimited Festival XIX (Wells), Konfrontationen (Nickelsdorf), Podring (Biel), Risonanze (Venezia), Controindicazioni (Roma), Festival milanese della musica d'improvvisazione (Milano), Pulsi (Milano), ContemporaneaMente (Lodi) and in many other places in Europe and United States.
DISCOGRAPHY
-1997 "trio '97" A. Braida/T. Mangialajo/C. Virzi - CMC Records 9974-2
-1999 "diciannove calefazioni" A. Braida/G. Locatelli - Takla Records 2
-2002 "tripwire" L. Scherzberg/J. Hughes/J. Arnal (Alberto Braida and Giancarlo Locatelli are guests in one piece recorded during a concert in Hamburg) - Generate Records
-2002 "Audiology – 11 groups live in Berlin Total Music Meeting 2001"
A/l/l – A division of FMP Free Music Production-
-2004 "Aria" P. Kowald/G. Locatelli/A. Braida - free elephant 004
-2004 "Oued" A. Braida, piano solo - Z-rec AB 1
-2004 "Ora!" RARA ensamble (G. Locatelli/A. Braida/G.Tedeschi/F. Spera)
- Z-rec RARA 1
-2004 "Due" A. Braida/G. Locatelli - Z-rec GLAB 1
-2005 "di terra" Braida/Ellis/Spera - Nu Bop Records 2
-2006 "mobile" Braida/Hughes - brokenresearch
-2007 "reg erg" A. Braida/ W. de Joode - Red Toucan RT 9332
UPCOMING RELEASES
"no flags on the bridge" J. Butcher/A. Braida/J. Edwards/F. Spera quartet
"Extraordinary Rendition" Diego Garcia Quintet
-L. Albee/A. Braida/G. Cremaschi/G. Robair/F. Spera-
"Talus" Alberto Braida piano solo, Nuscope recordings
