Play Your Dream: Danilo Rea, Nello Toscano, and Mimmo Cafiero

Available digitally from today, May 24, 2024, the new single "Play Your Dream" features three musicians who are pillars of the national and international jazz scene, as well as longtime friends who share a passion for coming together to create music that transcends genres.

Danilo Rea on piano, Nello Toscano on double bass, and Mimmo Cafiero on drums let themselves be guided by the inspiration of a moment, creating a single dense with rarefied spontaneity and minimal expressiveness.

One evening last winter, during a concert with Danilo and Mimmo, at a certain point something unplanned happened. Danilo laid down two almost suspended chords, lost in thought. Mimmo and I exchanged glances without the audience noticing, hoping one of us would figure out which song we were heading toward.

After a few moments we understood that we needed to come in, and so, discreetly, we began to interact. The music started flowing between us, everything worked well, and it lasted for quite a few minutes. The audience responded at the end with a particularly warm round of applause.

The late-night game from a distance

A few weeks later, around midnight, Danilo sent me an audio clip of solo piano -- rarefied, essential, dreamlike; those were the two chords from the concert, and he asked me to play over them. I tried, and recorded my own track, imagining the spaces for Mimmo. It all seemed to work. I sent the file to Mimmo, who managed with coherence and his signature style to complete the "game". Finally Danilo, unbeknownst to us, added his voice. We listened to the final result, and we liked it very much.

And there it is, the fruit of the late-night "game" played from a distance.

"Play Your Dream" becomes a recorded product for the wider public, a mix of emotions and sounds that blend like colors on a canvas, creating a picture that radiates beauty and emotion.

"Play Your Dream" shows how physical distance sometimes does not represent a limitation but can become a conduit for freedom of expression, creating an intense artistic connection and profound sharing.

Produced for Anaglyphos Records by Mhodì Music Company, it is already available from today on all digital platforms.