Crazy Girl Blue

An immediate and striking musical portrait, CRAZY GIRL BLUE expresses through 16 original tracks the dream world of Alessandra Celletti, her fascination for the unseen and her passion for flying. And the blue? "It has always been my favorite color, perhaps because it is the color of the sky and freedom. For years, piloting the glider has taught me to develop the insight to recognize the direction of the winds and the color of the clouds. There is a common point between the discipline that I learned to fly a glider and the one it takes to play the piano: it is the lightness. And perhaps this is the feature that best describes my way of composing and playing."

W.C.  George Bataille

Book + CD

Sketches of Sacagawea

A new production of al-kemi lab, a limited edition (Two hundred numbered copies) printed cardboard box containing a book and a cd. Fascinated by the legendary figure of Sacagawea, Alessandra Celletti devoted to her history some compositions now published by al-kemi lab in one of its alchemical boxes entitled "Sketches for Sacagawea", a sort of notebook of notes containing a CD with 5 tracks and a booklet (16 pages, format 14x24 cm) which will include paintings inspired by the work of Alessandra Celletti, made by Leila Gabellini (Alessandra's mother and painter) and fragments of drawings by Alessandra as a child.

The Red Pages

A collaborative project between the British multi-instrumentalist and composer, Mark Tranmer (gnac) and the Italian virtuoso pianist, Alessandra Celletti, the red pages was recorded live in the studio in Rome.

Tranmer and Celletti met via myspace in late 2007 after hearing each other's work. The 25- track album on cd 1 comprises eight main themes and variations. The album is predominantly piano-based – played by Celletti, with sporadic sprinklings of stratocaster by Tranmer. The main themes were written by Tranmer, and the variations by Tranmer and Celletti. Musically, the closest points of reference are the piano-based classical and soundtrack works of Michael Nyman, Phillip Glass, Wim Mertens, Sylvain Chauveau, and Ennio Morricone, as well as the piano-based work of post-rock collective Rachel's. The second, bonus cd contains demos and alternative versions of tracks from the red pages, as well as ten new keyboard-based electronic pieces written and recorded solely as gnac.

Sustanza di Cose Sperata

Hans Joachim Roedelius and Alessandra Celletti met in the virtual space of myspace, sending brief, reciprocal messages axpressing their esteem and interest for their respective musical experiences. Finally, in the spring of 2007, the Gereman musician, pioneer of avantgarde electronic music, invited the Roman pianist to play Erik Satie in Lunz, at the "smallest and most delightful" festival which takes place during the summer at the magical lake in the Austrian town. Thanks to this meeting their reciprocal musical interest was strengthened and they found a similarity of intent in their attentive and sensitive research into the colour of sounds and the magical atmosphere evoked by musical notes. In december 2007 Alessandra sent Joachim The Golden Fly, her latest disk with 16 compositions for solo piano. Joachim was enchanted and decided to work on this material to create remixes and blend his masterful ability with elecronic sounds with Alessandra's piano.

Thus was born the idea to undertake a live concert which, with the surreal and fascinating title invented by Roedelius himself, will sound like the "Sustanza di cose sperata" (Substance of things hoped for).

plays Baldassarre Galluppi

"An album born from a strange bet whereby Alessandra Celletti returns to classical music after her celebrated interpretations of Satie, Glass, Ravel and Debussy. The Transparency label, famous as recent distributor of Sun Ra's unpublished works, commissioned Alessandra to record the entirety of Karlheinz Stockhausen's work for pianoforte, the famous Klavierstücke. It wasn't difficult for the avant-garde American label to be convinced instead of this project proposed by the Roman pianist, apparently the polar opposite from the initial idea however via this little known composer, Baldassarre Galuppi (1706-1785), Celletti has once again produced an album that appears to stop time for the listener, suspending him/her in a universe where grace and the purest of intentions are the important elements. The music of Galuppi, known for the severity of its score, comes resuscitated by Alessandra in a game of emotional change-ups which already made her Satie the best on record. Originally the compositions by Galuppi were daring for their time and decidedly avant-garde even for the flourishing ambiance of eighteenth-century Venice, rendering the composer an outsider. In this new delicate and intriguing masterwork, personality and truly poetic charm will certainly beguile any fan of new music who doesn't bother him/herself with labels and genres.

“WAY OUT” produced by the English label LTM.

The cd presents 16 tracks, innovative in composition and sound, that aim straight to the heart. Unusual this recording is also thanks to the instrumentation used: the waves of piano are underpinned, with balance and grace, by the rhythmic backbone of the drums, played by Fabio Ferri. The result is melodies that are at once refined and inspired.

This album introduces us to yet another surprise: for the first time we hear Alessandra Celletti sing, and the results are utterly satisfying. She endows her music with colour and extremely elegant shades. It’s a music difficult to pigeonhole, far from the usual stereotypes, just like the artistic route of its author, who is able to cross genres with suble harmony, managing to meld styles that are apparently incompatible: classical music and rock, pop and minimalism, without forgetting experimental: a good arrangement and a superb use of dynamics conjugate it all.

The Golden Fly

sixteen inspired and intense compositions for piano. Stand-out tracks include "The Golden Fly One", "Turfan" and "Talking to Satie", an affectionate homage to Erik Satie.

Chi mi darà le Ali

Simply beautiful... This music with its haunting melodies really tells you a story. A great experience! (Jef de Corte)
Good music makes the angels to vibrate in the sky.  Alessandra Celletti play with the angels. (Robson dos Santos).
I’ve never been into this kind of music but In Grazia Del Tuo Nome, Con Amore brings tears to my eyes every time I listen. Another favorite is Chi Mi Darà Ali Come Di Colomba...The music seems to come in and live in your body raising goose bumps on tiny invisible strings and it swims round the spine in angelic spirals. Like all air is the breath of the world it’s close to all life. May it help us to breathe. (Jesse Keegan)

Philip Glass Metamorphosis

"This album is played with expression and conviction by the gifted young
Italian pianist Alessandra Celletti"
( John Pitt - Editor, New Classics - UK )

"An intimate introduction to Glass music skillfully played"
( Jose Jimenez Mesa - Glasspages.org )

"A great album!"
( Mario Dal Bello - Città Nuova - Italy )

Black  Baby

"The most intimate Joplin you've ever heard."
[Marcello Piras - Musicologist]

Hidden Sources

This music evokes the atmosphere of the peoples of the Near East and Central Asia:the ethnic melodies, asian songs and sacred music of contemplative nature.

"Hidden Sources contains the most representative and best selection of the Gurdjieff / de Hartmann music I've heard on a single CD. Alessandra Celletti's interpretations are as sensitive and as idiosyncratic as Glen Gould's. Her playing and selection are exceptional." 
[J. Walter Driscoll - Editor of Gurdjieff International Review and author of "Gurdjieff: an annotated bibliography" (1985) and "Gurdjieff: a reading Guide" (1999)]

Overground

Precise, immediate and inventive, “Overground”, rather than a symphonic poem, sparks the fantasy with colourful frames, sound snapshots that last the time it takes to give the idea: an earthly paradise, the simple life of the natives, the desolation of a mindless destruction. 
Alessandra Celletti has unearthed a new possibility: electronic music with a classical heart. The timbres are put in the forefront rather than the architecture, and in this music every sound presence stands on its own, realizing a healthy collaboration between classical and electronic instruments.

Viaggio a Praga

Les Sons et les Parfums

Debussy-Ravel-Satie

La musica francese, appassionata e sognante, appare riflessa come in uno specchio...