Today, the light of BLUE turns on.

The digital edition of Fabio Capanni’s new album BLUE is available now, offering the first glimpse of the final chapter in his long-envisioned trilogy.

Eco-pack CD and double 180-gram transparent blue vinyl will follow on February 19, 2026, completing the journey in physical form.

BLUE

vivere nel momento

BLUE is the third stage of an imaginary journey that began in 2021 with HOME and continued in 2023 with OUTSIDE.

If HOME turned inward — tracing the contours of solitude and inner resonance — and OUTSIDE opened that space to the world beyond, where the self and the visible world met along a trembling horizon, BLUE lifts its gaze to the sky. Here, the inward and outward dissolve together, carried into the vast quiet of the upper air — where sound, time, and light expand until only calm remains.

Representing the completion of Capanni’s long-conceived trilogy, BLUE both develops and transcends the musical themes of its predecessors. It gathers the refined harmonic language and tactile sonorities that have defined Capanni’s work — the dialogue between electric guitar and piano — and carries them into ever more rarefied structures. The result is a music of deep stillness and slow ascent, a luminous reflection on solitude, flight, and the quiet dissolution of boundaries.

The journey begins with “Finis Terrae,” the point where, for the ancient Romans, the known world gave way to the infinite blue of sky and sea. From there, the music lightens and drifts — between imagined spaces, suspended horizons, and delicate atmospheres shaped by Capanni’s precise yet dreamlike touch.

In BLUE, the artist takes flight alone. Having previously collaborated with Nicola Alesini (HOME) and Luc van Lieshout of Tuxedomoon (OUTSIDE), Capanni now embraces abstraction and solitude as the purest path toward self-encounter — a meditative, final step beyond the duality of inner and outer worlds.

BLUE is not only an ending but an opening — a quiet invitation to continue the journey beyond sound itself.

CURIOUS MUSIC’S RUSS CURRY ON BLUE

Last July, my daughters and I spent two weeks in Europe, where our travels began in Berlin with the Moebius Strips installation — a kinetic and industrial meditation of light, sound, and machinery. Even there, in anticipation of our forthcoming sojourn to Italy, I sensed an echo of BLUE — the stillness that can live inside motion. When our plane later descended into Bologna, the shift was immediate and visceral: a change in air, in color, in the tempo of time itself.

As we wandered through Florence and the Tuscan countryside, we spent some days with Fabio and his family — a communion of simplicity and presence. His home, a beautifully restored Tuscan house that he renovated himself, feels like an extension of his music and his being: open, intentional, and quietly luminous. His life, his work, and his surroundings form a single, thoughtful whole — a reflection of balance, beauty, and awareness. (Though his driving, as per Italian norm, is not exactly contemplative nor reflective.) The same qualities that live in BLUE— restraint, patience, radiance — exist in the way he moves through the day, the way conversation and silence flow together without boundary. There’s a lived sense of vivere nel momento — of being fully within the moment — that breathes through everything he creates.

In a time when the world feels darkened and uncertain, BLUE doesn’t turn away; it listens. It feels less like escape and more like a reflection of the light within the dark — the calm, luminous center that endures when sound, sky, and silence finally meet. There is still light.

ABOUT FABIO CAPANNI

Composer, musician, and architect Fabio Capanni has been a key innovator in experimental music since the late 1980s.

The refined sonic textures that marked his highly personal approach to the harmonic possibilities of the electric guitar led him to collaborate for over a decade with Hans-Joachim Roedelius, one of the fathers of electronic music, and to participate in projects with Harold Budd, Peter Principle, Luc van Lieshout, Steve Jansen, Richard Barbieri, Tim Story, Glen Sweeney, and Chris Karrer.

In 2021, after a long silence, Capanni released HOME, his first solo album, followed by OUTSIDE in 2023.

BLUE completes this trilogy — an introspective, spatial, and finally transcendent body of work.

TRACKLIST

1. Finis Terrae – 7:46

2. Thin Wires – 4:40

3. Electric Sky – 8:48

4. The Room of Infinity – 3:52

5. Gently Warm – 6:26

6. Far Below – 6:07

7. Into the Blue – 10:02

Total time: 47:41