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Bees Make Love To Flowers

by Roberto Ventimiglia

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1.
If We Were Cats 01:30
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May 02:05
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3.
Bees Make Love To Flowers 04:12
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4.
Just Fred 02:07
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5.
You 03:41
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6.
Under Britain's Sky 01:31
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Conceived between Italy and England, the homemade ep "Bees Make Love To Flowers" gathers six acoustical sketches moving between feelings of disappointment and consolation, loving without being fully loved back, thinking aloud and platonic emotions.

The use of English language as the first means of musical communication besides the singer’s everyday native Italian one, is the direct consequence of a constant search of duality, which is also represented by the sole acoustic guitar accompanying the vocal part.
The average briefness of forms and durations - a short handwritten message metaphor - is a sort of counterpoint to the choice of making a symbol of brave, unflagging love and care out of bees, being “frightened by lawn mowers, but still in love with flowers” as they are depicted in the title track.

Eventually, the main concern of the lyrics is the blind belief that only ‘great feelings’ are worth our efforts, but that may cloud equally important details, smaller in their appearance but not in meaning: hence the image of lovers using “no mowers, ‘cause bees make love to flowers”.

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Concepito tra Italia e Inghilterra e registrato in ambiente domestico, l’ep “Bees Make Love To Flowers” raccoglie sei bozzetti acustici alternando registri emotivi tra delusione e consolazione, sentimenti più o meno corrisposti, ragionamento a voce alta e passioni platoniche.

L’uso dell’inglese come primo mezzo di comunicazione musicale, accanto alla lingua madre di ogni giorno, è diretta conseguenza di una costante ricerca della dimensione a due, rappresentata anche dalla sola chitarra acustica a sostenere la voce.
La sostanziale concisione di forme e durate - metafora del biglietto scritto di getto - è un contrappunto alla scelta delle api come simbolo di amore e cura infaticabili, ritratte nel loro spavento per i tosaerba degli umani e tuttavia sempre rischiosamente innamorate dei fiori (“frightened by lawn mowers, but still in love with flowers”, come recita una strofa della title track).

In definitiva, la principale preoccupazione dei testi è la cieca aspirazione a ‘grandi sentimenti’ che rischia di mettere in ombra dettagli solo in apparenza più minuti: da qui l’immagine di chi rinuncia a recidere un fiore per rispettare l’importanza di questo per il piccolo insetto (“true lovers use no mowers, ‘cause bees make love to flowers”, dal brano già citato).

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released February 12, 2018

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Roberto Ventimiglia Rome, Italy

"Pursuing artistic freedom since 1982".

🇬🇧 Born in 1982, Roberto Ventimiglia is a classically trained composer writing both pop-oriented tunes and contemporary (neo)classical music.

🇮🇹 Nato nel 1982, Roberto Ventimiglia è un compositore italiano di formazione classica che scrive sia brani pop che musica (neo)classica contemporanea. ... more

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