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Microcosm

by Alex Carpani

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1.
Starless 04:51
Sundown dazzling day Gold through my eyes But my eyes turned within Only see Starless and bible black Old friend charity Cruel twisted smile And the smile signals emptiness For me Starless and bible black Ice blue silver sky Fades into grey To a grey hope that oh yearns To be Starless and bible black Sundown dazzling day Gold through my eyes But my eyes turned within Only see Starless and bible black Old friend charity Cruel twisted smile And the smile signals emptiness For me Starless and bible black
2.
Kiss And Fly 04:33
Kiss and feel to skydive Kiss and fly the whole night Kiss and climb the high wall Kiss and find the right path Don’t stay out there, come to this side Walk in the shadow Stay far from daylight Kiss and feel to skydive Kiss and fly the whole night Long thin blades, long hair smoking girl Wind chimes are calling a fine mist is spreading Don’t lie, don’t cry Now put your hands on my face Kiss and feel to skydive Kiss and fly the whole night Walk in the shadow Stay far from daylight Don’t lie, don’t cry Now put your hands on my face Kiss and feel to skydive Kiss and fly the whole night
3.
Let me cry, let me lie Moving through harbour dock Sail on sea, sail away I just know I’m alone Dreaming of a silver sea Leading to the land that everyone dreams of God bless Amerika Where your dreams and hopes come true Like a bright light New world seems to welcome you or not, who knows? Sail on sea, sail away I just know it’s not for me Good bye Amerika Now I’ve seen where dreams are thrown away Like a lighthouse The old world seems to welcome me back home again Sail on sea, sail away Now I know where to stay
4.
Nothing now but cages and fences Freedom edged with rust Left my smile somewhere on the journey Merrily kicking skulls and bones Love left lonely on this planet Death came and ordered me to live Don’t say words you might regret and don’t stay here to waste your time Left my hope somewhere in the journey kicking life and time Now take me home through your secret crossings How far away is the world of tiny people I swim on a mountain of salt My skin is rubbed by the salt Now we go in a new world of truth Nothing now but pure air and wide spaces freedom edged with white Left my thoughts somewhere in the journey merrily kicking leaves and ticks Love left lonely on this planet Death came and ordered me to live Don’t say words you might regret and don’t stay here to waste your time Don’t go, now we fly
5.
So what should be said of a life that leaves open and close, showing the hills and mounts of love That night I fell asleep That night I dreamed of you and me No, we can’t go home tonight and... Now that you’re back all the stars lit up Pull the sky down Now it’s alright I can say it’s alright for me It’s been a long road It’s been a million miles away or just ten miles It doesn’t matter where you are or where you go tonight Now we’re falling the sky is falling just around here So what should be said of a life that leaves open and close, with every beat Now that you’re back all the stars lit up Pull the sky down Now it’s alright I can say, it’s alright for me
6.
Hey doll, don’t cry Take care of you Let me see once again now How you’ll upset my life Let’s do what’s right to do now Go on, without look back You go over and under Wind blows, drying your tears I’ll follow your footprints in my heart You’re among the ruins of my bleeding soul Down through the center of me, in a breath Deep into my soul Hey you, come back Take care of me Let’s see if we can stay safe Sit here, just close your eyes I’ll follow your footprints in my heart You’ll cure the ruins of my bleeding soul Now come in, it’s open Leave your fears here I wobble, you’re shining, please hold me Let’s do what the heart suggests now We hug, holding our breath
7.
(instrumental)
8.
What once was a sunray through the rain Now it’s gone, it’s dark Everything I had is here When I stop and I wait Kissed by sun, I just sit and stare What once was a presence in the wind If there were a fay She’s not here now, gone away I lost my body, my mind’s already far now When I stop and I wait Kissed by sun
9.
Now it’s time to go up Nothing stands in the way here When the tears fall down on a flight of steps Lying down somewhere till night falls again No tears, nor pain The roof is on fire Don’t you look back, ooh Never feel lonely When the tears fall down on a flight of steps Lying down somewhere till night falls again Down down to hell it’s raining again I see your face against the light And then I dive down to your heart When the tears fall down on a flight of steps Lying down somewhere till night falls again When the tears fall down on a sea of dark Lying down somewhere till day comes again
10.
Need for freedom in life Never feeling content Need for further true love to come Still want to be here Ashes and hopes on my way today Lowering the anchor in the storms of life Firmly hold in the straits of love Outside only for a while and out there is full of dangers On the low side of the road when night falls When the ice cracks after the passage of reindeer Firmly hold in the straits of love Need for freedom, never bend Still want to be here Firmly hold in the straits of love Need for freedom, never bend Out there in the dark
11.
Redemption 05:48
Breath, live Cry, sweat Laugh, move Grow, love Lie down, here, now Stay straight, don’t sin Seek truth, stay clean Choose well, don’t lie You wonder how I got this way Lose my mind from endless praying I breath again You can see I changed my way to live again I saved my soul Now I try to get more close to the place where the angels go You wonder how I got this way Lose my mind from endless praying I breath again I will catch a raimbow for you and change for real is what I meant when I took leave of you Lie down, here, now You can see I changed my way to live again I saved my soul Now I try to get more close to the place where the angels go Don’t fear, I’m pure and strong Ask and I’ll put down the walls for you I’m an alien in this world of pain I’m a free bird in this cage of flames
12.
Microcosm 05:30
No sense of reason, no-one else is around No signs of life here Arid expanses and dust in the air No more sounds to hear and silence is deafening through this empty space Here comes the sound of rain The world seems to revive Endless sand grains fade into space Raindrops are falling slipping away from my hands on the ground Night falls from ceiling And my eyes are wet And my thoughts are dead Endless sand grains fade into space Microcosm, life she marched Through the rain and wind to this wasteland Leaves fall, I lie down Thoughts fly, rise, shine Endless sand grains fade into space Microcosm, life she marched Through the rain and wind to this wasteland Microcosm, staring at these vital signs of life in this wasteland Leaves fall, I lie down Thoughts fly, rise, shine I turn off now

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Microcosm is an album about the enormous potential of the mind, which is able to create, destroy, love, suffer, remember, forget, isolate itself from everything, live among the people, change its perspective, change its mind, put ideas to good use, cancel distances, create the most abysmal distances, resist everything, give in to nothing, grow, learn, reshape, regress, dissolve, create impossible worlds and make the impossible possible. The mind, in other words, is a world in itself, a microcosm in which lives all that we are, what we perceive of the outside and what the world perceives about us.
Musically speaking Microcosm is the meeting point between various genres and influences: progressive, jazz-rock, symphonic rock. The album has been conceived as a heterogeneous fresco with a multifaceted soul. It's a project that has involved prestigious musicians of the International rock scene, as well as top level musicians of the Italian scene.
The album contains a modern and suggestive version of Starless by King Crimson.


Microcosm è un album sulle enormi potenzialità della mente, che è capace di creare, distruggere, amare, soffrire, ricordare, dimenticare, isolarsi dal tutto, mescolarsi e vivere tra la folla, cambiare prospettiva, cambiare idea, mettere a frutto le idee, annullare le distanze, creare le distanze più abissali, resistere a tutto, cedere di fronte al nulla, crescere, apprendere, rimodellarsi, regredire, dissolversi, creare mondi impossibili e rendere possibile l'impossibile. La mente, insomma, è un mondo a sé, un microcosmo nel quale vive tutto ciò che noi siamo, ciò che noi percepiamo del tutto e ciò che il tutto percepisce di noi.
Musicalmente Microcosm è il punto d'incontro tra vari generi e influenze: dal progressive rock al jazz-rock, dal symphonic rock al rock senza altri aggettivi. Concepito come un affresco eterogeneo dall'anima multiforme, è un progetto che ha coinvolto musicisti prestigiosi della scena rock internazionale, oltre a musicisti di alto livello della scena nazionale.
L'album contiene anche una versione molto particolare, moderna e inusuale, di Starless dei King Crimson. Un brano in un certo senso 'cosmico', l'ultimo tassello finale di questo mosaico di 'mondi' e 'micromondi' che è Microcosm.

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released April 29, 2022

Featuring:

DAVID CROSS
JON DAVISON
DAVID JACKSON
THEO TRAVIS

and:
Bruno Farinelli
Andrea Torresani
Davide Rinaldi
Emiliano Fantuzzi

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Alex Carpani Bologna, Italy

Alex Carpani is an Italian composer, keyboardist, singer and producer. Since 2007 he has published 6 solo albums released by Italian and foreign labels which had positive feedbacks with both audience and critics. He has founded the band Aerostation, as well, with Gigi Cavalli Cocchi, which has released in 2018 its homonym debut album. ... more

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