Lullaby for Jude EP

Tom Salvatori

Track 1 - Lullaby for Jude – Composed by Tom Salvatori * When words fail, music heals. Dedicated to the Memory of Jude Meier, infant son of Noah and Alexa Meier, and to the Meier and Salvatori families Track 2 - With This Read more

Track 1 - Lullaby for Jude – Composed by Tom Salvatori * When words fail, music heals. Dedicated to the Memory of Jude Meier, infant son of Noah and Alexa Meier, and to the Meier and Salvatori families

Track 2 - With This Love - Composed by Peter Gabriel for PASSION, Music for The Last Temptation of Christ, a film by Martin Scorsese - 1989 (C) Realworld / Virgin Records, Ltd. - All Rights Reserved. Arranged for Solo Guitar by Tom Salvatori

Track 3 - I Wait and I Wonder – Composed by Tom Salvatori

Track 4 - Suite #1 from Peer Gynt, Op. 46, 2nd Mvmt - Composed in 1879 by Edvard Grieg (Norway, 1843-1907) as incidental music to Henrik Ibsen's Play Peer Gynt and extracted by Grieg in 1888 to form Suite #1, Op 46, 2nd Mvmt (Public Domain). Arranged for Solo Guitar by Tom Salvatori

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La Bella Vita EP

Tom Salvatori

5 newly recorded solo nylon string guitar pieces; in the first two I have reimagined other composers works as guitar lullabies. My arrangements stay strongly reverent to the original form and structure of the Read more

5 newly recorded solo nylon string guitar pieces; in the first two I have reimagined other composers works as guitar lullabies. My arrangements stay strongly reverent to the original form and structure of the compositions, but I present the pieces in a way that I anticipate neither composer would have ever expected to hear their work...Mendelssohn in his Violin Concerto #1 in E minor (excerpt from 2nd Movement) and Silvestrov in his Serenade for Solo Violin...as solo nylon string guitar lullabies.

I pick up the composing from there to introduce 3 new pieces that I have recently written and recorded.

Quietly enjoy,

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    Mendelssohn's Andante - Excerpt from Violin Concerto #1 in E minor - 2nd Movement - arranged for Solo Nylon String Guitar 3:13
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    Silvestrov's Serenade (Arranged for Guitar by Tom Salvatori) 3:09
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    To and Fro 2:29
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    Riposo 2:16
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    Lullaby for Henry 3:06
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The Nylon String Guitar in Ensemble

Tom Salvatori

RECENT PRESS REVIEW: Minor 7th Review featured July 9th, 2024 Summer Issue: "The Nylon String Guitar in Ensemble" 2023 "From its title, the listener knows what to expect texturally from guitarist and composer Tom Read more

RECENT PRESS REVIEW:

Minor 7th Review featured July 9th, 2024 Summer Issue:

"The Nylon String Guitar in Ensemble" 2023

"From its title, the listener knows what to expect texturally from guitarist and composer Tom Salvatori's album, which serves as a reissue collection of pieces from two prior recordings: When Evening Falls (2007) and Ever Ever On (2010). To indicate more specifically, Salvatori's performances on this reissue happen in concord with cello, contrabass, violin, viola, oboe, and oboe d'amore. The broader-stroked moniker of neoclassical is close to the mark regarding the program's compositional style and scope, but intentionally quiet might be a more apt designation. These pieces are highly melodic, beautifully arranged, and exquisitely performed. They were purposefully created to soothe and aid in relaxation at the end of the day and Salvatori consistently hits the mark on both fronts throughout this charming program." © David Pedrick

THE NYLON STRING GUITAR IN ENSEMBLE (2023) is a reissue collection of the Guitar ensemble pieces from:

2007 * - When Evening Falls by Tom Salvatori and Iris Litchfield

2010 ** - Ever Ever On by Tom Salvatori and Iris Litchfield

Track Listing:

Sleepy Eyes Lullaby *

Guitar Lament *

Reflecting Absence *

Majestic Interlude *

Church Song *

Labyrinth II *

Quiet Reflections *

The Ghosts of Levigliani **

Escher's Lullaby (Ode to Relativity) **

Whirlpool Song **

Dark Round **

As the Nightshade Grows **

Folk Dance **

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    Guitar Lament 3:17
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    Reflecting Absence 6:50
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    Church Song 2:56
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    The Ghosts of Levigliani 3:47
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    Whirlpool Song 3:12
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    Escher's Lullaby 2:54
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Goodnight Lullaby - EP

Tom Salvatori

4 new solo nylon string guitar pieces by Tom Salvatori

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Respite Guitar

Tom Salvatori

Escape the rattle and hum of your day and disappear with me into the warm and beautiful tones of quiet and pleasant solo guitar featured in the natural surroundings of the morning meadow, by the seaside and in an outdoor Read more

Escape the rattle and hum of your day and disappear with me into the warm and beautiful tones of quiet and pleasant solo guitar featured in the natural surroundings of the morning meadow, by the seaside and in an outdoor field in the evening. Literally :) We've recorded my new guitar pieces as solo guitar works as usual, but after the 7 new tracks are featured, you'll notice a track 8 on this release. It places my new 7 pieces in Natural settings.

So enjoy these new pieces as solo guitar work and then also, as a special bonus, please enjoy them featured in natural settings in track 8!

Track 8 starts out a little dramatic...New York Minutes is placed in the unsettling urban soundscape of the New York City streets, but soon an escape is executed and the rest of the pieces on this album are featured in various natural outdoor settings, making for a very pleasant "escape from New York" :) Quietly enjoy!

Track 08: RESPITE GUITAR IN NATURE SUITE – 28:00

Have you ever just slipped away – alone – for a special “mental health” day…just you…from dawn to dusk…to breathe in the beauty of nature…to think…to ponder…to ruminate and to recover??

Well, we now have a soundtrack for your special day :)

Follow along as Polly Feeney, our protagonist, navigates her journey, starting with an early morning escape through her unsettling urban cityside clamor, rattle and hum…

Cue - NEW YORK MINUTES

…she clears the turnstiles to initiate her getaway from New York via the subway; and finds herself outside the city, embracing a reconnection with beauty of nature as she strolls through a fragrant and flowery green meadow…

Cue - MORNING GLORIES

…serenaded by the positive energy of bird calls under the watchful warmth of a sun-drenched morning on her way to a seaside retreat.

Once through the meadow and approaching the solitude of the waves lapping at the shoreline, Polly finally stops to relax on the unpopulated beach, enjoying the opportunity to breathe deeply and think clearly again.

Cue - SOLITUDE

She walks along at the side of the sea, which offers ample time and space to ponder life; and to reminisce about events in her life that have mattered most to her…

Cue - REMINISCENCES

…along with ruminating about the deeper remembrance of the dear loved ones who have played key roles in her life…cherishing and celebrating each memory.

Cue - REMEMBRANCES

Polly, continuing in the solitude of her walk, eventually comes across a beach area filled with families and children playing in the sand and sea, which enables her to embrace the positivity of family togetherness and love and allows her to recount a series of affirmations about her own life and plans for her future.

Cue - AFFIRMATIONS

Then, as the day begins to wind down and the sun plans it setting as evening falls, she departs the seaside for the peaceful warmth of a small outdoor cafe nestled in an open field where the nighttime sounds are teeming with life…

Cue - EVENING QUIETUDES

…where she sits back to relax and recover…in the quiet of the night while enjoying a superb glass of wine.

Salute, Polly!

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Ballad of Dwight Fry Suite (Arr. for Nylon String Guitars) Second Coming / Ballad of Dwight Fry / Sun Arise

Ballad of Dwight Fry Suite (Arr. for Nylon String Guitars) Second Coming / Ballad of Dwight Fry / Sun Arise Total Time: 13:29 A handful of the most impressionable pieces of music I enjoyed from my youth - from Alice Read more

Ballad of Dwight Fry Suite (Arr. for Nylon String Guitars)

Second Coming / Ballad of Dwight Fry / Sun Arise

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A handful of the most impressionable pieces of music I enjoyed from my youth - from Alice Cooper's 'Love it to Death' album released in 1971. I always considered Side 2 of the album among the most expressive and wide ranging emotional rock songs at the time and ranked them in my all time favorites.

It was a real pleasure to immerse myself in this body of work over the past several months!

Project started: Nov 26, 2016 Final Mix: January 23, 2017

45 Separate Guitar Parts were recorded to compile this Suite. All Guitar parts and all percussive effects were recorded on my 1972 Hernandis Grade #1 Classical Guitar (which I love to say worked out to be the perfect 'period instrument' for the performance of this suite!)

Actually I must say things got a little creepy late at night trying to musically interpret a little girl's voicing of concern over her father's bout with insanity "Mommy, where's Daddy? He's been gone for so long..." and then again trying to make musical sense out of Alice himself going insane in the Ballad of Dwight Fry...repeatedly screaming "I gotta get out of here." So what started out as a fun idea turned into a lot of hard work just to musically interpret spoken word and screaming; not to mention the perfectly 'out of tune' guitar solo by Glen Buxton which is still, 46 years later, soooo fittingly uncomfortable; so wrong but soooo right, especially when the protagonist of the song (lead singer Alice Cooper), suffering from the nausea of insanity, was musically fitted for a straight jacket and dragged into the residency of an insane asylum.

Salute to Alice Cooper and a tip of the top hat to him and his band with this one. I hope you not only enjoy discovering this piece as an instrumental, but if you're not familiar with the original work, please do seek it out. The songs are iconic and rate as highly recommended on my list of favorites. Thanks for listening!!

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Tu Sei bella Aci Catena EP

Tom Salvatori

This track is featured on 'Tu Sei bella Aci Catena' - EP Tu Sei bella Aci Catena - November, 2008 Tom Salvatori – guitar Leroy Bocchieri – mandolin Massimo Di Nocera – vocals Tu sei bella Aci Catena My parents rented a Read more

This track is featured on 'Tu Sei bella Aci Catena' - EP

Tu Sei bella Aci Catena - November, 2008

Tom Salvatori – guitar

Leroy Bocchieri – mandolin

Massimo Di Nocera – vocals

Tu sei bella Aci Catena

My parents rented a villa in Sicily for two months at the end of 2008, and my wife and I went to visit and celebrate our anniversary in Italy. It soon became evident that the only way to navigate in the little towns was to drive there and then ask the locals for directions. And for some reason, one Italian talking to a driver through a car window seemed irresistible to others...we always attracted a few to render their opinion. They'd point in different directions, shrug their shoulders, wave their arms and ultimately start an argument amongst themselves. We would still see the assembled group continuing the discussion in our rear view mirror even after we'd start on our way.

The smartest of all direction-givers was a woman in a small town we had a hard time finding - called Aci Catena. When we stopped, she came out her front door (which was about one yard away from the street) in a bright pink bathrobe, largely pregnant; with kids hanging on her from all sides. She smiled and said “go four streets straight ahead and when you get there...stop again and ask someone else!”

Anyway...having a composer riding shotgun alongside an Italian crooner at the wheel who fancies himself Mario Lanza, we eventually began to sing a little melody to the beautiful words of directions as we drove about. Our music and lyrics have now become the testament to this wonderful Sicilian experience.

Lyrics In Italian (English translation)

Tu sei bella Aci Catena (You are beautiful Aci Catena)

Aci Catena buon giorno (Aci Catena good day!)

Benvenuti ‘la nostra citta (Welcome to our city)

Dove il centro il mercato (Where is the central market?)

Noi stiam’ guidando in cerchio... (We are driving in circles…)

Prima ‘vanti, gira la sinistra (First go ahead, then turn left)

Quindi si va, ‘la chiesa (Then you go on from church)

Quindi destra, quindi la sinistra (Then right, then left)

Gira l’ang’lo, la chiesa (Turn the corner, at the church)

Aci Catena aiuto mi (Aci Catena…help me!)

Aci Catena aiuto mi (Aci Catena…help me!)

Dove il centro il mercato (Where is the central market?)

Noi stiam’ guidando in cerchio... (We are driving in circles…)

‘ndare l'ang’lo, gira la sinistra (Go to the corner, turn left)

Quindi destra, ‘la chiesa (Then right, at the church)

Gira destra, gira sinistra (Turn right, turn left)

Gira l'ang’lo, ‘la chiesa (Turn the corner, at the church)

Aci Caten’ arrivederci (Aci Catena goodbye!)

Non abbiamo mai trovat’ il centro (We never found the center)

Preferisco perso in Sicilia (I prefer to be lost in Sicily)

‘nvece trovat’ altrove (Instead of being found elsewhere)

Aci Catena tu sei bella (Aci Catena you are beautiful)

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