This video is the official behind-the-scenes documentary filmed in Los Angeles during the recording sessions of A Vision, an original jazz album by Italian vocalist, lyricist, educator, and composer Lorena Fontana. The making-of was directed by Alessandra Arcieri, with my contribution focused on audio and video editing: assembling the material into a coherent short documentary and shaping the raw footage into a narrative that could preserve the intimate, concentrated, and collaborative atmosphere of the session.

In 2006, during a short gap between travels and projects — and shortly before I left for Australia for what would become several years abroad — I had the chance to collaborate as a guest keyboardist with Fire Makers, an independent heavy metal band from Italy.

The contact came through Massimo “Dingo” Candido, who involved me in the recording sessions for material connected to the band’s Metal Empire project. I recorded my keyboard parts at ACME Studios in Abruzzo, near the Sulmona / Raiano area: a compact but serious recording environment that, at the time, gave the session the right balance between underground metal energy and professional studio focus.