Psalm 121 - He watches over you

A classic rock-pop ballad, which culminates with a free and inspired improvised coda. The atmosphere of this Psalm is one of a deep faith in God, a faithful worshipping which means complete abandonement in his holy hands. The same protection which the Lord accorded to the pilgrim who endeavoured in a long and dangerous journey to distant villages was conceded to the patriarch Jacob.

Salmo 24 - Lift up your head

A taste of rock, a perfect showcase for the clear and strong voice of the singer. In this Psalm, the Church celebrates the triumphal entry of Jesus Christ in Jerusalem on Palm Sunday and celebrates, during the painful passion, the mystery of joy that characterizes the deadly fight sustained by the Lord of armies. The entrance in Jerusalem is a prophetic announcement of the coming of God and his final triumph on the last day of history, in the words of Paul: "Gifting us with the eternal redemption" (Ebr. 9,11-12).

Salmo 37 - Shine like the dawn

This song is full of dynamic tension, a crescendi of strength and passion perfectly crowned by the final lines, adapted into Italian. The theme of this psalm is easily comparable to the two principal episodes of biblical teaching and spiritual importance for the Catholic Church: in the Old Testament, the suffering of the righteous Job, who was abandoned by neighbors and friends when the Lord wanted to prove the authenticity of his faith. At the beginning, his broken spirit moved him away from the Faith, and rebuked the very Lord who so unjustly had plunged him into poverty and despair, but then understood the inscrutability of God's Word and commited his way to the Lord's will, because the righteous will possess the earth and its fruits.

Mousiké

Psalm 32 is the occasion for introducing an adaptation from the wonderful Mousiké, a poem of the young Wojtyla. In the final improvisation, made in the four-in-four jazz style, echoes the past of the Jazz trio. This delightful poem was composed by Karol Wojtyla in 1939, just after the Nazi invasion of Poland. It represents a thanksgiving of great joy for the gift that God has granted, from the youngest age, to the future Holy Father: An easy and flowing prose to raise a hymn of praise through the arts of the muses. In this adaptation we propose a silloge of the highlights, especially in the chorus we remark the closeness of this version of the poem (another, earlier still, had poor circulation and it is still difficult to find) with the psalms of praise, where the young poet invites the audience to rise in harmony through music to touch the feet of the Lord, with trusting heart and pure soul, granted that we will never fear the spite of the unjust.

Salmo 117 - All you peoples, all you nations

Last but not least, a curious and intriguing bossa nova, all dedicated to the delicacy of the south american touch. This short psalm exemplifies the structure of the hymns of Praise: it splits canonically into an exhortation to praise God and in the motivation that is subject to praise. In this psalm, the words "truth and mercy" stand out, joint in a formula that God promises to bring to completion. Mercy means that God, in his goodness, has made to his people a promise on the basis of which he formed an alliance with his people, as the good shepherd. The veritas adds solidity and consistence, ensuring fulfillment of the promises through the work of justification that the merciful grace of the Holy Spirit concedes us. With the coming of the Holy Spirit, God's mercy extends to the ends of the earth, and into the eternal world, as attested by the blood of Christ. The old promises have full and perfect fulfillment.