PAR.ETi

Carlo

Sampaolesi

PAR.ETi

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PAR.ETi is the narration of my story.

Of why I am here and why I have decided to

sacrifice my life for this choice.

It is the point that is in the middle

What divides the before and the after

The starting point.

I am writing this story aboard a plane, returning from an experience sitting as usual beside my instrument. My best friend and worst enemy, but nevertheless the Soul I am most attached to and least fond of.

PAR.ETi is not about Music but about me. Music is the boundary, the container that encloses my story.

I recorded this album in 2020, during the lockdown period, in the studio recording in Castelfidardo at my grandparents' house, built over the years together with my brother. There I spent the months of the pandemic, studied and cried, and grew up and grew old. This object is meant to be a memory that belongs to the past and tells about that time.

I started playing the accordion wanting to imitate my brothers, who were also musicians.

I chose this instrument because I had no ideas and was convinced by my grandparents, the ones who lived above the recording studio, both accordion makers.

My grandmother tuned instruments at home, although I never saw her work because she decided to give up when the grandchildren were born to devote herself completely to us.

The first Soul I lost and to whom I was infinitely attached. My first real pain in life.

My grandfather, on the other hand, had a factory and made keyboards for accordions. I saw him work a lot until Grandma left.

From the time I started playing, the sacrifice began. Because Music for me has always been a sacrifice, at first borne by the ingenuity and diligence of a child, but then becoming a presence that takes away more than it can give you but which you can no longer do without. With Music I have lost many people, relationships and experiences of life. I have sacrificed an infinite amount of time in pursuit of it and despite the immense effort it it has provided me, it asks more and more of me now.

I decided I wanted to do this in life quite late, at the age of 18. I remember the exact moment, the moment when this became indispensable to me. It was perhaps my first real concert, as a duo with my brother, inside the church just above my grandparents' house. The fulfillment generated by that experience was the flow that made me say that this would be indispensable to me. I think that was the realization I reached that day.

From that moment began the journey that I embarked on as my personal Mission and that has brought me here, sitting in this plane intent on telling the story that will be written in this container.

I should thank countless people because Me and these four pieces are the result of a combination of Presences and Absences that have accompanied me on this journey and taught me so much.

To all these People,

To all those who made me discover and love Contemporary Music.

To all the times I said, "I can't take it anymore."

Thank You All

I dedicate PAR.ETi to Alessandra, Roberto, Caterina and Cesare

My walls, my columns, my arches and my Pareti

PAR.ETi