“The Yellow Waves” was born in 2017 from the artistic meeting between Massimo Fedeli and Eleonora Betti and takes advantage of the collaboration of refined musicians from the Roman jazz and pop area:
Stefano Micarelli on guitars, Nicolò Pagani on electric bass and double bass, Davide Sollazzi on drums, Fabrizio Aiello on percussion and Diego Bettazzi on flute and soprano sax.
Massimo talks about his work:
I have always liked writing melodies and combining them with harmonies with a slightly more jazzy flavor, just as I have always liked to range between various musical genres. Painting My Time is an album in which there is a clear prevalence of compositions born to be absolutely instrumental. This certainly did not make life easy for Eleonora, but she was very good at creating beautiful lyrics that marry perfectly with my music.
Eleonora also gives us some memories and how her lyrics are born:
I have known and respected Massimo for many years. Collaborating with him on this album was a great pleasure. The music written by Massimo inspired lyrics that talk about travel, positive evolution, love. Sometimes small revolutions happen in our lives: changing cities, falling in love, putting yourself to the test and accepting your own falls, are all things that renew the way we look at ourselves and the world.
01 Feel at home: it started from a riff that made me think of a very melodic jazz waltz by Enrico Rava. The result was a piece in 4/4 that is definitely Latin in which I wanted to leave some slightly playful tones that in the end has very little of the production of the great Italian trumpeter.
02 Midnight: A piece born as an instrumental and written to testify to a passionate explanatory urgency and I believe that this immediacy is discreetly perceived. There is a rock imprint but there is also a melody and a harmony that go beyond touching a bit of jazz and Latin.
03 This is my day: It is a song born to be associated with a text, jaunty, all in all simple that came to mind listening to danceable rhythms and atmospheres with jazz-dance references.
04 Counting stars: It is a song born instrumental that made me and Eleonora sweat a lot to bend it to the right needs of adaptation, to make it become a song first and then to write the relative text. The atmosphere that came out of it is, at least musically, very complex and varied. It starts from a rhythm that is definitely rock on which a melodic but discreetly repetitive phrase is grafted and then opens with a large and particularly modulating chorus melody.
05 With a smile: a song with a pop-country flavor born thinking of American landscapes
06 The way to find my happiness: it is a carefree rock-pop song that I had a lot of fun writing and it is one of the few songs that I immediately thought of to be associated with a text.
07 Into a dream: it is a ballad that recalls pop country contexts with a nice evocative rate… I dedicated it to a person with whom I shared a story.
08 A place where I belong: Song born to be associated with a text. Apparently of simple conception, at least from a melodic point of view; but in reality the melody rests on a modal chromatic harmony that recalls both acid-jazz and lounge music. The chorus always expands and fluctuates with an atmosphere that remains sufficiently interrogative and very slightly psychedelic.
09 Painting my time: Melodic ballad, very evocative and also intimate. I have always perceived it as a sweet and calm invitation to tell and share.
10 Shine: Song born instrumental dedicated to Antonio Jobim that I wrote quite some time ago and in any case after the death of the great Maestro. I have always wanted this song, which I have deliberately arranged in a sufficiently bossa nova way, to reach the distant shores of Brazil…
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