Alberto Boccardi - Apnea (2024)

From Alberto

Parenthood has been a life cornerstone, a game-changer that has reversed upside down priorities, objectives, and the way I approach my life.

These changes have been, and still are, traveling with very slow speed but at the same time, they have been magnificently rapid and suddenly I found myself outside of my comfort zone.

Apnea, recorded entirely in Sicily where my second daughter Agata was born, is a record of these movements, of the changes that are hidden in the microcosmos of the familiar ties, contrasted against the bigger picture of the daily life and the images of yourself that are stuck to the past, like old photos found in a trunk of memories.

The compositional approach has been reflecting this mood, this feeling and sense of motion, continuously, and only apparently, in slow-motion.

I have been creating several patterns, independent and voluntarily unconnected, that after a screening phase I have decided to combine together looking to reflect this sense of movement and change contrast.

It took almost 3 years to complete the work and across that time I hardly found, in late night, the energy to focus on the details, on the hidden silence and on the breadth that each sound palette should find along each track.

The final result should reflect this world and hopefully deepening inside these ties, these apparently unknown connections that are still coming to surface.

The cover image is of my son, Pietro.