Scintilla translates to sparkle.
It relates to those small, spontaneous and out of control tiny flashes of light that appear here and there through our lives. it's about using them to help us track our journey, to help us define our direction. Of course, one can also use the word to mean something more literal, the initial flame of a new change, or chapter.

Scintilla is a solitary investigation, a private walk through intense and yet delicate emotional landscapes.
I would pick them up at opportune moments and work on them in my own space, playing and recording all the instruments at home with the exception of some field recordings and piano.

Many of the pieces explore the polarity between the private and the public.

additional thoughts:
The idea of Scintilla was born in 2013 as a consequence to
suffering the weight of old musical ideas trapped in my archive for a
long time: Basic sketches containing the full feel of mental and emotional images.
The oldest one was born in 2008, immediately after the previous album - Tacet - was published.
I recognise the reaction to that intense investigation which used music to get as close as possible to the emotional state of silence, which was the concept at the core of that album.
It was a reaction in continuity, an evolution in opposition.

The music memories in Scintilla have been evolving through the years, in some cases almost 10.
They’ve been holding in suspension, breathing as a continue and open dialogue during which I was incessantly diving into the heart of their meaning, trying to clean up, inviting all the disturbs to go away; define, underline and set free all the germinal ideas and consecutive reactions.

A sustained and immersive work of introspection into the core of the meaning.

An element which was constantly appearing and clearly identifiable, was the will to preserve the ingenuity of the initial sparkles (scintille) that gave birth to those musical life forms.
Spontaneous essentiality is behind each one of these tracks.

The act of composing has always had a very intimate meaning and approach to me.
While working in and on Scintilla I began to understand there was an additional ingredient that became part of the recurring meetings of the content of these box of old sparkles: isolation.
That kind of intimacy you need when you open a box of old prints, showing yourself in what seems a different life.
The only eyes that can connect those images with the same existence, which can find and know the connections and the flow that make them all coherent although the time distance, are the very yours.

This is why I’ve been working on these songs by myself, without inviting other musicians or people to collaborate in the making.
Hence I consider it the most solitary among my albums, until now.The idea of Scintilla was born in 2013 as a consequence to
suffering the weight of old musical ideas trapped in my archive for a
long time: Basic sketches containing the full feel of mental and emotional images.
The oldest one was born in 2008, immediately after the previous album - Tacet - was published.
I recognise the reaction to that intense investigation which used music to get as close as possible to the emotional state of silence, which was the concept at the core of that album.
It was a reaction in continuity, an evolution in opposition.

The music memories in Scintilla have been evolving through the years, in some cases almost 10.
They’ve been holding in suspension, breathing as a continue and open dialogue during which I was incessantly diving into the heart of their meaning, trying to clean up, inviting all the disturbs to go away; define, underline and set free all the germinal ideas and consecutive reactions.

A sustained and immersive work of introspection into the core of the meaning.

An element which was constantly appearing and clearly identifiable, was the will to preserve the ingenuity of the initial sparkles (scintille) that gave birth to those musical life forms.
Spontaneous essentiality is behind each one of these tracks.

The act of composing has always had a very intimate meaning and approach to me.
While working in and on Scintilla I began to understand there was an additional ingredient that became part of the recurring meetings of the content of these box of old sparkles: isolation.
That kind of intimacy you need when you open a box of old prints, showing yourself in what seems a different life.
The only eyes that can connect those images with the same existence, which can find and know the connections and the flow that make them all coherent although the time distance, are the very yours.

This is why I’ve been working on these songs by myself, without inviting other musicians or people to collaborate in the making.
Hence I consider it the most solitary among my albums, until now.