The Last Gate Cesare Picco

• 1 Aurora Crossing 02:18
• 2 The Last Gate 08:53
• 3 Inside Me 06:48
• 4 Angels 05:10
• 5 The Giant 04:31
• 6 I Remember 03:52
• 7 Like A Butterfly 08:13
• 8 Until The End 05:15
• 9 Another Breath 01:53
• 10 La Prossima Volta 05:11
• 11 Like A Butterfly (Edit) 03:42
• Total Runtime 55:46

Info for The Last Gate

Cesare Picco releases his new album for the first time on Decca Records label. Always considered one of the most authoritative musicians of that current commonly known as 'neoclassical' together with Ludovico Einaudi, Olafur Arnalds, Max Richter, Picco has established himself in the world as a brilliant and committed artist. Pianist, but more generally a multifaceted and eclectic artist, able to range from classical music to electronics, from baroque to jazz, over the years Picco has been able to create an unmistakable style of his own, and also magical events such as the famous "concerts in the dark. ".

Artist of great substance and commitment, he has chosen a highly symbolic and evocative title for his album: "The Last Gate". "If the Earth is sick, we are sick. This is an awareness that is fortunately growing in the world, as we know that we are all connected in this destiny and that each of us has a part to play ...": in essence we are faced with important and indelazionabile choices, which require decisive stances, we are facing "The Last Gate".

The album is enriched by the presence, in addition to the piano, of a cello, a moderate electronic component, but above all by the harmonium, an ancient instrument, but also so current for its sound that the artist defines as "natural", and which fits perfectly not only in the sonority, but also in the philosophy of the new album.

Cesare Picco, piano

Cesare Picco
Piano improviser, clavichordist, composer and writer.

He started studying piano when he was four years old and from 1986 he is author to ballets, operas, music for theatre and special projects performed worldwide.

Tradition and Experimentation have the same leading role in his music. His music has always been the result of a personal concept of art that rejects any limitations on style or inspiration. Cesare's personal musical alphabet goes across different genres, bringing to his listeners the freshness, the intensity and the power of a really strong pianism, a deep spiritual approach and the lightness of captivating melodies.

He has worked with distinguished artists such as Naseer Shamma, Rajendra Prasanna, Edmar Castaneda, Nino Josele, Giovanni Sollima, Hajime Mizoguchi, Markus Stockhausen, Yukimi Nagano, Taketo Gohara, and Italian Pop and Rock artists such as Andrea Bocelli, Luciano Ligabue, Giorgia, Samuele Bersani, Pacifico and many others. Cesare performed at most important venues worlwide, such as Teatro Alla Scala di Milano, Auditorium di Roma, Singapore Old Parliament, Hanoi Opera House, Tokyo Blue Note, Al Maidan Centre Kuwait City, Kolkata Tagore Centre, Baghdad National Theatre, Bangkok Macm Auditorium and festival such as Delhi Jazz Festival, Tokyo Jazz Festival, Abu Dhabi Festival, Mantra Festival Madrid, Umbria Jazz.

Special events with site-specific music has been performed at Venice Guggenheim Museum, Tokyo Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Milano Hangar Bicocca, Whitney Museum New York.

As a composer he has written music for solos, chamber music ensembles and orchestras such as I Virtuosi Italiani, Berlin Chamber Soloists, Moscow State Symphony Orchestra.

Since 2006 his albums have been released in Japan and he quickly became famous touring the country several times and collaborating with local artists and orchestras.

In 2009 he creates and performs the special show BLIND DATE – Concert in the dark, a live of pure improvisation in which both artist and audience are soaked in the darkness.

This album contains no booklet.