Ludovico Einaudi - Seven Days Walking (Day 1) (2019) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

"Seven Days Walking": seven bodies of music to be released over seven consecutive months. The first, ‘Seven Days Walking: Day One’, which interweaves piano and strings in his unmistakable style, is Einaudi’s 14th studio album and will be released on 15th March, on Decca. ‘Seven Days Walking: Day Two’ follows a month later. Each ‘day’ is then released, digitally, a month apart, leading up to ‘Day Seven’ which will be released in the autumn in a box-set of the complete Seven Days. Inspiration for the entire project derived from walks that Einaudi would take through the mountains in winter. He explains, "In January last year I often went for long walks in the mountains, always following more or less the same trail. It snowed heavily, and my thoughts roamed free inside the storm, where all shapes, stripped bare by the cold, lost their contours and colours. Perhaps that feeling of extreme essence was the origin of this album." The first album focuses on several main themes, which then recur in different forms on the following albums – seven variations following the same imaginary itinerary. Or the same itinerary, retraced at seven different times.

Tracklist:
1 Seven Days Walking, Day 1: Low Mist Var. 1
2 Seven Days Walking, Day 1: Low Mist
3 Seven Days Walking, Day 1: Gravity
4 Seven Days Walking, Day 1: Matches
5 Seven Days Walking, Day 1: Cold Wind Var. 1
6 Seven Days Walking, Day 1: Golden Butterflies
7 Seven Days Walking, Day 1: Fox Tracks
8 Seven Days Walking, Day 1: A Sense of Symmetry
9 Seven Days Walking, Day 1: The Path of the Fossils
10 Seven Days Walking, Day 1: Ascent
11 Seven Days Walking, Day 1: Low Mist Var. 2

Personnel:
Ludovico Einaudi, piano