Ludovico Einaudi
I Giorni

Ludovico Einaudi is the musician with a delightful touch and finely veiled melancholy who a few years ago gifted us with “I Giorni” a sparkling and delicate album consisting of eleven ballads for solo piano. Einaudi’s style is almost minimalist, (Nyman, Mertens) but his essential and subtly introverted poetic is imbued to a greater extent with sweet and caressing tones with which he paints waves and rainbows in soft pastel colors in a cascade of dreamy and very relaxed notes. Rarefied atmospheres evoke echoes of distant and not very earthly worlds. The temporal structures seem completely forgotten and almost absent, but the artist’s inspiration is at its highest levels, rich, deep, and sincere.

Einaudi performs in a flow of pieces imbued with a primordial beauty and simple poetry (The Two Rivers) that have the enveloping pace of breath (In Another Life, I Giorni). The whole album is subtly pervaded by a faint and slightly nostalgic "mal d’Africa" that incarnates in the circularity of “Melodia africana,” a distant echo of a sweet and somewhat melancholic motif from an ancient song of the Mandè repertoire. Einaudi plays between notes and silences, and his compositions are among the most amiable and luminous one can imagine. Ludovico Einaudi allows the music to whirl, soar, and breathe: an enchanting and moving album.

Let yourself be cradled.