Marco Girgenti
Composer/Arranger of Extremes
EXPERIENCE THE RANGE…
DEMO REEL – A continuous 9-minute reel blending epic orchestral, gospel, television, and Latin influences
EPIC COMPOSITIONS
Amore É
Featuring Vocalist – Mark Masri
Amore É / Love Is – tells a story of young love,
born in the summer on a sun -kissed beach. As circumstances change and life begins its way, the couple is separated and the beach is left cold in the winter. But, as if with a promise made that was left to echo for many years when what was once the future is now history, we hear the strain “and when life no longer journeys, find me again on that beach of our first love…I the sun, you the ocean… love is.”
It is, in a word; wistful.
I began writing this piece in 2014 and like many of my pieces, it sat unfinished. When I took the track to my friend, tenor Mark Masri, it was half completed. I have been close friends with Mark for some ten years and while I was “away” let’s call it from the music business, Mark and I always remained connected.
In his home studio, Mark closed his eyes and leaned back to listen. His reaction and words are something I will never forget – “you mean to tell me you vanish for 10 years, you quit, the you show up out of nowhere with a song and string arrangement like this? ‘Jets’, what’s wrong with you!”
Suffice to say that I went home intent on finishing the piece… which I did… in 2018. Yes, four years later.
Like I told you; it’s complicated.
It took a trip to Italy with my wife Susan, definitely prettier and often wiser than I am, to awaken my creativity again, along with the resignation… or perhaps – admission that there was no more running from what my life had been for 30 years prior; I was allowing myself to be a musician/composer again.
In 2018, Mark, who incidentally is not Italian nor fluent in the language, did exactly what I knew he would do… he erupted with a soaring vocal and performed open-heart surgery on me – tearing my heart out, before putting it back where it belonged with a much stronger beat. Thank you Mark.
Please click below for a lyric video of Amore É, with my original Italian Lyrics as well as an English translation.
Features model and 6 x fitness champion, Susan Arruda.
RETRO MEETS a TIMELESS MESSAGE
Bully – No Limit
Featuring Vocalist – C. Perme
Inspiration for “Bully” came when I had seen a friend of mine wow the judges on America’s got talent. She was a young girl, but what was as powerful as her voice, was her admission that she had been bullied and the courage to say so on national television. One of the judges hit the golden buzzer and the rest was history.
Bullies are insecure people. They don’t like it when someone around them is more successful than they are, so instead of picking a fight with someone their own size, they turn to someone who is meek in an attempt to control them.
Bullies are probably one step away from being adult domestic abusers. I’m pretty sure you can figure out who the school bully was just by looking around the adults in your workplace… they hardly ever change.
But they’re just afraid of people with heart and they don’t understand courage. They bully people because they can’t handle their own pain and they can’t stand themselves.