Paolo Giorgi - Nowadays and Yesterdays (2020)

Paolo was born and lives in Firenze where he attended the Scientific High School and graduated in Mathematical Sciences at the Firenze University. Over the course of his musical career, parallel to his business career in the Intelligent Transport Systems field, Paolo has been writing over 150 songs.

He was co-founder of the band Lightshine (1976), then founder of the Wildfire (1978) and member of the Greyhound band, FM, James Taylor Tribute. He was also member of the Firenze Duomo's Choir (1987-88) and musical co-Director of the S. Casciano in val di Pesa's Piccolo Teatro (1994-1999).

Paolo met many of his favourite artists like Chris Simpson, James Taylor, Arnold Mc Culler, America, Tommy Emmanuel, John David Souther, David Crosby, Graham Nash, Stephen Stills, Ken Nicol, Karla Bonoff, Chris Hillman, Herb Pedersen, Russ Barenberg, Russel Kunkel, Leland Sklar, Robert Mc Entee and he played live with some legendary artists like Chris Simpson of Magna Carta in 1998, with whom he co-wrote Listen, that is part of his latest work Nowadays and Yesterdays.

Paolo wrote his first song “One for the other” at the age of 15, with the guitar and harmonica by his side. First listening to English progressive bands like Genesis, Van der Graaf Generator, King Crimson, he was completely blown out by the folk English acoustic music and by the Country Rock/West Coast influence.
His major sources of inspirations in the years span from The Beatles, Magna Carta, Cat Stevens, Neil Young, Crosby Stills and Nash, The Eagles, Poco, Gordon Lightfoot, Mark-Almond, Jim Croce, James Taylor, Dan Fogelberg, America, Simon and Garfunkel, Stephen Bishop, Tommy Emmanuel, Chat Atkins, Mark Knopfler, Eric Clapton, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Bonnie Raitt, Karla Bonoff, Linda Ronstadt and many, many others. Then his guitars, banjo, mandolin, resophonic guitar, pedal steel, keyboards and ….an iMac did the rest, becoming his home studio. Nowadays his songs mainly come out from there.
Many of Paolo's songs owe their inspiration to the local Tuscany wonderful landscape. He is always honoured to participate and organise charity events. Paolo released his first demo record in 1995, with two songs “Sea wave eyes” and “A knife to cut my pain”, cut both in English and Italian. Paolo then released his first CD The Stage, published by Abraxas, in 2010. His second cd Secret share was published in 2016 and his latest release Nowadays and Yesterdays is finally available within 2019.

Paolo’s music is an exercise to summarise feelings and concepts into lyrics, tunes and harmonies; a long way towards the communication of his thoughts, as a part of his life.