Album Notes

Mastered by Grammy winner engineer Paul Blakemore (Yellowjackets, Spyro Gyra, Bob James...), entirely composed, arranged and performed by Pietro Girardi, this record is a unique blend of different colors and mood, from straight-ahead jazz to aggressive funk/fusion.
***NOTE: this record has been mastered at low levels to preserve sound quality and dynamic response. If you think it sounds too low, just pump up the volume!

BIO
As many artists, I started approaching music very early. My mother was a good classical pianist: she and my sister gave me the very first lessons, at the age of 7.

I was really attracted from the piano and liked so much either to play melodies heard on the radio and improvise brand new tunes. It was my preferred toy, and this way of approaching an instrument is very important to me still today: as the great guitar player Pat Martino told me once in a masterclass, "if one day I'll find out that I'm not having fun anymore with it, I'll put it on the wall immediately".

My interest in computer music begun in 1992 with a desired dream machine: an Amiga 500. It all started with demos and trackers - I was really keen on computers and music, and finally someone has invented a machine that could put together the two worlds, with MIDI and sampling capabilities.
After producing several tunes that gained good reviews in a computer games magazine, in 1994 I begun to study classical and jazz piano; in the meanwhile I joined several pop/rock bands, soon switching to jazz and fusion.

I've been playing hundreds of gigs in many different places: in 2002 I won a scholarship to attend the Berklee Summer School at the Umbria Jazz Festival (Perugia, Italy), having the chance to study with world class teachers from the States. My first record, Breathe, has been published that year; in the meanwhile I started releasing music on first MP3 portals like Audiogalaxy.
I've been an associate SIAE (Italian Society of Composers and Editors) since 1998.

During those years I had the chance to endorse Yamaha Keyboards and teach jazz and modern piano in a private music school. In 2008 I published "Minimal", my very first worldwide distribution (both in CD and MP3 format) that have had several positive feedbacks from listeners and critics all over the world, "on air" on many web radios (Sky.FM, Last.FM, etc.).

My new record, Morning, is a comeback to what I love the most: composing and arranging using only piano, keyboards and samplers.