The compositions sound like kind of an essence of more than 40 years of creative work of the 60 year old master. Three keyboardist / pianists provide a wonderful theater heaven: Barry Miles, Mario Parmisano and Philippe Saisse. The exquisite rhythm scenes are created by Rhani Krija (percussion) and Peter Kaszas (drums). The different sounds that he weaves, he sees as a „linking the past with the future.“ He dispensed with a bass in all of his arrangements, and he is frequently heard with different guitars, where sometimes acoustic filigree sounds are combined with distorted electric guitars, highlighted Latin runs with rock riffs. „The new album is not at all like any of my albums, and it doesn’t sound like any of my albums, and I am glad that it has a life of its own,“ he explains. Otherwise, Di Meola moves rather more on abstract paths, and if you listen to the opening composition „Adour“, you have to listen very closely to recognize the master of winged finger at all. „Stephanie“ is one of the graceful, dance-footed compositions – by the way as well as the title track. For two years the guitar virtuoso is being seen very often in Munich, where his fiancée, a 27-year-old journalist lives.ĭi Meola dedicated a piece to his fiancée on his new album. „It was about a place of perfect happiness.” And yes, Germany plays a major role at this point, he says with a wink. But it has yet to do with Germany, told Al Di Meola, who seems almost exhilarated while talking with me. No, he had not thought of Beethoven’s famous symphony neither of Schiller’s poem when entitling his new album “Elysium”.
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