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Valerio

SilkWood

About Me

A push and a pull; a tension between conflicting desires. This is all it takes to tip my social behaviour into complex and often unpredictable patterns, dictated by influences beyond my immediate experience or my ability to control. Regardless of what we belive about the motivation for individual behaviour, once we become part of a group we cannot be sure what to expect. The paths leading me (Italian man) to the music and instruments of Northumbria, perhaps begin in the deep past and, of course, remain obscure itself to me. But... a fiery passion is burning. So, attentative Reader, what to say about me? Less is more" in modern minimalism: less words, and more music. Listen to me, please...

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/29/2008
Influences: This is my personal mythology that has its foundations in my self-formative past years, more or less in "order of appareance":

    Jack Armstrong (Rothbury Hills) Kathryn Tickell (virtuosity) James Hill, Tom Clough and Robert Whinham (the harder way of composing...) Adrian Schofield (fingers) John Liestman (tutor) David G. Burleigh (maker) Colin Ross (reeds) Billy Pigg (plucky fingering) Joe Hutton (impeccable timing) Julia Say (Northumbrian Pipers Society) Pauline Cato (Annual Competition) Carlos Nunez (amazing piping) High Level Ranters (30 years of traditional music and song from the North-East of England ) Forster Charlton, Colin Caisley,Diana Blackett, George Atkinson, Richard Flemming, Chris Ormston, Andy May (amazing performers)
Miners (The Return)Jacky Layton (with variation and grimaces)
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Northumbrian Smallpipes

Non รจ dato sapere quando le prime northumbrian pipes sono state suonate nella loro terra d’origine. Alcune notizie sono estremamente fantasiose e molte fanno genericamente riferimento alle bagpi...
Posted by Valerio on Sat, 29 Mar 2008 07:17:00 PST