Apr. 13 – Maestro Petraroli, aka Yeros, has performed all over the world, featured on the most prestigious international stages, from Cape Town to New York passing through Beijing, Dubai, Los Angeles, Oslo and Dusseldorf, without forgetting Sao Paulo and Rio De Janeiro. In recent days, Yeros was in Rome for the release of “Fanteim” – his latest album out tomorrow (Yeros Production Srl / Edizioni Musicali Starpoint International Srl / Gerardo Petraroli). The pianist and orchestra conductor performed on Friday, April 10 at the Auditorium Parco della Musica, the songs from his latest work that inaugurates a new musical orientation defined by the master himself “Darklassic.” “The basic approach – he explained – leads back to my degrees in philosophy and psychology and is based on the idea that everyone has a light, a way forward that we must find within ourselves to survive. The concept of ‘Darklassic’ is based on two things: darkness and shadows. While in darkness, there isn’t enough light to see, in the shadows we can open our eyes and look at the dark.” Maestro Petraroli – defined by international critics as an eclectic and multifaceted composer” is known for his triad of art, thanks to a mix of music, images and theatrical video-acting that is always present in his performances. “I think – said the Maestro – that music, theater and images taken individually are not enough to transmit an effective understanding of things. These three elements, taken together, can instead answer the questions of the world and art through a deep moral and ethical balance.” “Fanteim” is the result of the inspiration given by the city of Matera, European Capital of Culture 2019, a city which has been linked to Petraroli “for 20 years thanks to a few close friends.” “Matera – he explained – has been for me a kind of hermetic door, a repository of trips made in the past and an expression of the infinite parts of the world. The stones represent for me the void that people have, a void that you can fill by observing and listening to the inner bowels of the earth. The stone becomes a presence, a word, a response to that research and ascetic needs. I tried to listen to the depths of the earth – continues Petraroli – absorbing an astonished and magical atmosphere, in those silences that touch our inner selves. All this made helped me mature the idea of writing not academic but more popular music: intense, fast-paced, and sophisticated.” The eclectic composer, applauded worldwide, said he had “found everywhere the same things, flowering from different cultures, that make us witnesses of different consciousnesses. I think that sociologically we Italians are driven to seek fortune aroung the world, adapting ourselves to do anything, but feeling a strong need to be ourselves without betraying our origins. Personally – he concluded – I don’t aim at success or reputation: what I hope is that through my music people can escape from degradation, from that inertia that often leads to omologation, preferring to the exchange of information and ideas an escape towards contemporary nihilism.”
