An alternation that recalls a noble ancestry, which is, not by chance, Triestine, Marco Podda combines 12 numbers, some instrumental, other vocal, creating what we could define as a lyric suite: The Chords of the Air. As he affirms, “these pieces, composed between 2007 and 2012, represent “something that links the past to the present […] as a souvenir photo”. Stylistically, this ‘anti-historical music’ doesn’t owe anything to any ideology of music historicism, nor to neo-avant-garde or mere ambition of restoration. There is only emotion, memory and a desire to communicate.