Andrea Ruggeri - Mustras (2024)

Following the release of “Musiche Invisibili” (2022), “MUSTRAS” continues my personal homage to Italo Calvino, an author who reminds us of the fundamental role each individual plays in forming a social network capable of withstanding the weight of contradictions.

The ‘mustras’ are primarily textile decorations from Sardinia that depict everyday life scenes. Thus, each musical score becomes a ‘mustra’, narrating new inspirations and visions, of threads as relationships and relationships as threads, of no duality between the eternal and the everyday, between light-year and moment, between the corruptible and the incorruptible, between my choice and peace (or war), between the self and the other, individuals merged in the ‘we’ yet intact in their uniqueness.

If in the past Calvino was (and still is) the advisory author who inspired my screenplay, now he has also become the mirror, the acoustic signal, the wind reminding me of my innate desire: to live with the awareness that music is “merely” one of the many manifestations of the essential human condition. One of the multiple heterotopic spaces where that wind shakes and purifies everything, creating a harmonious coexistence. A coexistence, certainly not devoid of conflicts, which, however, are virtuous in generating understanding and inclusion, much like every time the Mistral blows in Sardinia and I, even when it wakes me in the middle of the night, go outside to feel its cleansing and reconciling power.

All this is encapsulated in “MUSTRAS”, whose purely aesthetic musical outcome I leave for each listener to embrace in their own way. For me, it is merely one of the infinite points of view within a circle, indeed, one of the infinite spirals of life.

Andrea Ruggeri