Albumleaves

Dreams of Love and Travel

August 18, 2025 – 8:55 PM

I’m very proud to announce the release of my second solo album, Dreams of Love and Travel, from New Focus Recordings. It drops this Friday, 22 August 2025. The work features 16 Albumleaves: all seven that comprise the big Proust suite plus nine inspired by my travels mainly in Italy but also elsewhere. I hope you enjoy it!

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Prima di partenza

August 4, 2025 – 6:50 PM

Albumleaf 211: July 15, 2025 (Bologna)

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Daydreams, Laughter, Reflections

July 28, 2025 – 12:28 PM

Albumleaf 210: July 3, 3025 (Bologna)

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La carta vincente

July 21, 2025 – 12:24 PM

Albumleaf 209: June 20, 2025 8Bologna)

“La carta Vincente” (“The winning card”) is inspired by a leitmotif in Stefano Massini’s Lehman Trilogy in which a dwarf shows onlookers a card, places it face down on a table with two other cards, maneuvers all three extremely rapidly, and then invites onlookers to identify the position of the previously shown card.

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Phrases in Variation

July 14, 2025 – 12:21 PM

Albumleaf 208: June 19, 2025 (Bologna)

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Auda’s Song

July 7, 2025 – 12:19 PM

Albumleaf 207: June 17, 2025 (Bologna)

To-night Auda was guide and to make us sure of him he lifted up his voice in an interminable “ho, ho, ho” song of the Howeitat; an epic chanted on three bass notes, up and down, back and forward, in so round a voice that the words were indistinguishable. After a little, we thanked him for the singing, since the path went away to the left, and our long line followed his turn by the echoes of his voice rolling about the torn black clouds in the moonlight.

From Seven Pillars of Wisdom, p. 224 (Chapter XL)

T.E. Lawrence