Welcome to the bandcamp page of Galliano Sommavilla.
Contemporary Pianist, Instrumental Composer, Cookbook Author. Lover of Fine Foods.
All Original instrumental music.
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The origin of these songs stem from an original project by Galliano Sommavilla, started on 6 May 2013 and finishing on 5 May 2014, culminating in the creation of 365 original songs, 365 songs in 365 days!
365 songs in 365 days. Read more HERE: www.galliano.com.au/365_songs_in_365_days.html
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If you intend to have a listen, I extend you a very warm welcome to my music and please enjoy.
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Thank you for your interest. Thank you for listening.

Make this the new soundtrack of your day!

This is story telling music.
This is instrumental music for the soul and senses.
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Over time, my compositions have been revisited, remixed, remastered, always RELOVED, refreshed and sometimes reimagined.
The beauty and luxury of having control of your 'masters' is the opportunity to add to the sonic experience, if you feel you didn't get it so right the first time, or just the added luxury of being in control of your musical compositions and to hopefully enhance the musical and sonic structure.
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..........'A pulsing, twinkling act of meditation, 'Home Sweet Home' advances by gentle excursions of string, transporting the listener to a place of deep contentment - home.'
Winner Best Song Ambient/Electronica Akademia Music Awards
June 2015
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.....and “Day 342: Luci D’Albe.”..... In fact, “Day 342: Luci D’Albe” has a haunting melody that sounds a bit like “Cristo Redentor,” a haunting tune that the late bop pianist Duke Pearson unveiled on trumpeter Donald Byrd’s 1963 session A New Perspective for Blue Note Records (“Cristo Redentor” was heard 30 years later in a scene from Robert De Niro’s film A Bronx Tale). Pearson’s “Cristo Redentor” and Sommavilla’s “Day 342: Luci D’Albe” are definitely two different melodies, but even so, they have a similar mood: one that is pensive, spiritual and reflective.............
Reviewer, Alex Henderson
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..........Galliano Sommavilla’s uptempo concoction ‘Song/Day 260 Bouncin Blues’ blends suave keyboard and guitar stylings with an expertly articulated rhythm - to a lively and listenable result.'
Winner Best Song Ambient Instrumental Akademia Music awards
June 2016
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..........'Song/Day 81' is a beautifully sentimental piano and cello ballad showcasing Galliano Sommavilla's impeccable instinct for melodic musical arrangements
Winner Best song Instrumental/Classical Akademia Music awards February 2016
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........Now, my favorite: “Song/day 348.” It’s a gorgeous, immensely atmospheric track that depicts the best smelling, best temperature, calm after a storm—or, if we’re sticking with the album as a story, a war of the elements. The choir melody is so beautiful my breath caught in my chest for a moment, and the chimes, haunting piano, and melancholy oboe working together sound like a church hymn or concerto – very spare, very quiet and contemplative. A hint of violin chords echo in the background, but they’re barely prominent enough to be heard as anything more distinct than one’s own breath. The choir and oboe call and respond as if passing a new soul back and forth, and toward the end the sound thickens, enveloping the listener amongst all the instruments and choir, their fullest expressions wafting over us at the same time. Where else but music, this music a prime example, do we find examples of and inspiration for courage, calm, connection?
Reviewer, Alice Neiley
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A compelling journey on thoughts and emotions, drawn from a plethora of instrumental veins, boasting hints anywhere from ambient, downtempo, chill, world, electronica, experimental, soundscape, soundtrack, soft jazz, pop, new age, solo piano and more.
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Emotion. Image. Journey. Magic. If four words could describe Galliano Sommavilla’s work as I’ve experienced it, those would be the words....
Alice Neiley
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......That’s one of the most wonderful things about Galliano’s music – it is always reminding us of things, just vaguely enough to put the image in your head, before pulling back and allowing you to wander and fill in all the gaps. It’s a unique gift to be able to give people – the ability to call personal images to mind simply through the power of sound.......
The Ark of Music
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……Anyone with an interest in contemporary instrumental music in the new age, jazz, electronic, and experimental arenas will find harmony and comfort in the music of Galliano Sommavilla.……
Matthew Forss - Music Journalist/Columnist USA
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