Underwater with Ludovico Einaudi

If I listened

to Italian pianist

and composer

Ludovico Einaudo

often prior

to the pandemic

then I don’t

know how

to describe

my current volume

of listening:

Constant? Steady?

Always?

Ludo

(that’s what

I call him,

we’re friends)

recently released

his full-length

Underwater

and it’s everything

I wanted

in an album

by him: stripped

down and sleepy

piano. Hushed

and soothing

and so, so lovely.

His performance

of “Natural Light”

is heavenly.

While 2020’s

12 Songs From Home

still makes

the rounds

around my apartment,

Underwater

is a new contender

for favorite

Ludovico Einaudi

album. Press play

and sleep better.

Thank you, Ludo.

What a guy.