The sun and the moon like life and death, man and woman, night and day, cold and hot, desperation and hope, lethargy or action: distinct yet complementary worlds. This is why there are 2 CDs. Moon is intimate and mezzo-piano, Sun lively and extrovert. Moon dreamy and dramatic, Sun restless but joyful. Moon is the poem, Sun is the game. Moon one voice at a time, Sun with a loop station. A musical work motivated by the wish to put one colour on a CD, suitable for a certain state of mind, without having to skip tracks because a song is too gentle or too upbeat. Like when you buy biscuits. Either with chocolate or without. Sometimes it just depends on the moment...Livio Minafra

A graduate in Classical Piano, Orchestration for Banda and Jazz at the Piccinni Conservatory of Bari, Italy. Winner of the important Italian “Top Jazz” prize in 2005, 2008 and 2011, Livio primarily performs solo and with his quartet, and has also engaged in many prestigious collaborations as pianist, composer, arranger and accordionist with such groups as the MinAfric Orchestra, Municipale Balcanica, Canto General, Radiodervish….Other important collaborations have included Louis Moholo, Keith and Julie Tippetts, Marko Markovic, Paolo Fresu, Bobby McFerrin, Jerry Gonzalez, Frank London, Mario Schiano, Sergej Kuryokhin, Paul Rutherford, Lucilla Galeazzi, Michele Lomuto, Daniele Sepe, Fakhraddin Gafarov, Darko Rundek, Aldo Caputo and Michel Godard. At just 33 years of age, he has toured and performed on all continents and has recorded for Raitrade, Ed. Il Manifesto, Stradivarius, Incipit, and Sud Music (Italy), Enja Records (Germany), Leo Records and Ogun Records (UK). To date he has released piano solo albums ‘La Dolcezza del Grido’ (Leo Records) and ‘La Fiamma e il Cristallo’ (Enja Records), and as leader of the Livio Minafra 4et, ‘Surprise!!!’ (Enja Records). Livio currently teaches Jazz Piano at Bari Conservatory.