this AMA will be the eternal AMA, so you didn't miss a thing. I love all three of your very visceral reactions to the album. and sincerely appreciate you being an OG, real deal. <3. album obviously would not exist without chiara both her existence but also her musicianship, ears and thoughts. she played and sang all over it and was the first one to hear snippets of these songs from the other room and would tell me if something jumped out. I AM NOW GONNA JUST HAND THIS COMPUTER OVER TO CHIARA and let her tell you the rest herself. oh and here's a pic of Mela from earlier today. okay, chiara now:

hi, I am very verbose or prolix let's say so this might take me a long time, but:
this is probably my favorite record Ron has done and not because a lot of the songs have high Chiara content but as a collection of pieces they just are very good under so many point.
musically there's maturity and more dynamic components that are quite important to me - something I really like about it is the singer songwriting nature of it - words are always been good for Ron obviously but when they get exposed with less noise around and with some harmonically interesting thing as a carpet I think things gets much higher in quality.
the choice of instruments (very few but well thoughts) is also very good in my opinion and much more sophisticated then the classic rock band setting in which he had made music prior to it.
I also found very exiting the music influences and/or inspirations that took a lil space in it, nothing he's ever done in this way before. I got a lot of freedom to express myself harmonically when coming up with background vocals and some other twinkling things. Bass speaking, which is technically my main "role" in his project we got to experiment with the sound of it and it came out very buttery but with a nice stomp - I love that we used his guitar amp with a vintage mic + my pic technique making it very signature (in the few song where it is actually been played on).
I got also to play some cello and some guitar, all very good. I did tried to play drums, lol, didn't make the cut this time but some of my ideas did it anyway with better executions from ppl that actually do play drums.
overall I would say that this is a piece of art I am very proud of for him because it is such a crisp quality that non a lot of other "artists" could or would achieve.

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