Gian Paolo Avanzo
Hello, I am Gian and I welcome you.
Throughout my life I have been passionate about music and I always dreamed of publishing my songs but I never had time to think seriously about that.
This dream was in a drawer and I opened it from time to time to store some musical ideas and wishes.
Years passed by and a sense of urgency was brewing inside of me telling me I was living my life without trying to realize this dream.
I thought that you actually never really know how things will turn out until you give them a try.
In the end I had nothing to lose, right?
Friends and family encouraged me as they liked my songs a lot but, you know, they are friends and family!
Finally, I decided to publish my first album and here is the outcome of a life journey which now is just beginning again.
I guess any listener would like to know how the composer is expressing his feelings when writing music.
What do I feel when I think of music? What drives my mind to compose this kind of music?
Well, this is both easy and difficult to explain. Ill try.
The spark comes from within as usual. I like the change and most of my tracks are made up of parts that seem different from the previous and from the next. This feels like a contemplation of evolution or even revolution. Are we not in a continuous state of evolution? Social, cultural, technological, physical, mental and so on
Among these musical changes, there is still a recurring melody that tries to give a subtle sense of uniformity to each track.
Besides, most of my music is played as if am trying to find the right notes and with longer than expected silences between certain parts. This represents my inner search for how to express the feeling of the moment as joy, sadness, uncertainty, curiosity in other words living through music.
The idea is to generate in the listener an expectation and excitement about what will be the musical part that will follow. I hope you can share this excitement with me and I would be very pleased to know your moods and feedback as you listen to my music.
Thank you for your time and let the journey begin!
GianBand/artist history
I started when I was a teenager creating some songs that were in line with my desire for constant change. Indeed my tracks are characterized by changes in tone and mood.Have you performed in front of an audience?yes to a limited number of people
Your musical influences
progressive rockWhat equipment do you use?
Korg Kronos, pianoAnything else?
What is more fascinating than a journey into the unknown of the universe? And if this were really possible, what would be the moods of a human being who enters this wonder? I tried to imagine myself in this situation giving expression to my musical fantasy and the result was Journey Across The Universe, an album that wants to be not only music but also imagination, narration, feeling and desire to share these sensations with other human beings. To each of you who wants to listen to it, it can arouse completely different sensations, but this is the charm of music...
With Journey Across The Universe I gave musicality to what is one of the greatest mysteries of our life: what is the Universe? How was it born? What are we, where do we come from and where are we going? Is it all real or just in our mind? Are we the expression of a superhuman intelligence, what we call God or, perhaps, everything was created by itself?
Although I wanted to express in notes what I feel, thinking about Journey Across The Universe, listening to my music, each of us can have their own sensations and feel what their imagination suggests That depends upon each one of us.