Magister Ludi by Davide Barbarino

Tracklist

1.	The Pitch-Maker	2:12

2.	With the Wings of Youth & Poetry	2:20

3.	The Umbridled Surge of Spirit and Fantasy	2:23

4.	A Downright Roughish Leer	4:26

5.	Haste Makes No Speed	2:36

6.	A Laugh Made of Crystal & Ice	2:37

7.	Full of Flaming Yearning for Life	3:21

8.	A Joy of Woo & Win by Degrees	2:27

9.	Every Crack of the Whip	3:12

10.	Fatal Discord	1:41

11.	Making Treatise & Fighting Battles	1:51

12.	The Orgy Still Raged in a Crescendo	1:52

13.	A Gloomy Hero in a Gloomy Wilderness of Rocks	3:55

14.	The Tiny Crack of Light in a Black Hole of Dread	1:55

15.	The Wind Wafted the Smell of Spring	2:35

16.	Bordering Upon Seduction	3:52

17.	This Mighty Impulse	2:23

18.	Laugh and Be Done with It	2:08

Credits

released September 13, 2024

Davide Barbarino plays baritone guitars, drums programming & electronic instruments

Recorded at home studio in Paris, May/June 2024
Mixed & Mastered at the River House, Normandie, July/August 2024

Total time: just long enough for a joke

Cover painting by Victor Brauner, detail of 'La rencontre du 2 bis, rue Perrel', 1946
Cover photo detail by DB, Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, December 2023

Main title suggestion from Hermann Hesse, 'The Glass Bead Game', 1943

Thanks to Keja Ho & Marc Upson for their boundless love and supporting

Dedicated to my nephews Ettore and Jacopo - may they always learn with joy and curiosity, becoming the masters of their peculiar destiny.

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