Nicola Sergio (Piano)
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“As a migrant from southern Italy, a land of emigration, I have always felt the need to dedicate a song to this big “family” to wich I think to belong: the migrants of the world. This time I have been further in composing for them a whole album written under the spell of strong emotions. When composing the ten songs, my inspiration was nourished by personal experiences, written documents, films, newspapers, but above all by my encounters with other migrants, the true witnesses of deeply human stories wich were for me strongly inspiring.This is what “Nowhereland” is about: like many others, the migtant finds himselfs alone and lost on board of a boat on its way to a new country only known through the images of postcards and television, in which he won’t be welcomed most of the time. It’s not his homeland, it’s a “no-where-land” where he has to live in search of a better future.“Ryork” is about the first italian migrants embarking for America without any moneay, but with a bad full of dreams. It tells the true story of a young napolitan who intends to emigrate to New York, but enbarkes on the wrong ship wich takes him to Rio de Janeiro! In spite of this “mistake” the city pleases him and he chooses to settle there and raise a family.“Rain in my lunch-box” is about a migrant working in London who, during his lounch-break on the yard where he toils, finds nothing in his lunch-box but rain water. This work is an attempt at conveying all these stories. Improvisation is always at the heart of it, but for writing the themes i was inspired sometimes by jazz, sometimes by classical or by film music, without imposing to myself stylistic barriers. Because music is, in my opinion, very similar to the migration process: it is the result of continuous meetings and exchanges between different cultures and even different styles can coexist enriching one another to create cyclically new styles, new cultures, new migrations”. Nicola Sergio