The words "cine prive" conjure up late-night skin flicks for Brazilians, but the more appropriate meaning of the album title is closer to its literal translation: private cinema. "I like to listen to music made for films," Domenico Lancellotti says. "I like music that was conceived to support a certain image or scene. In these cases, the music interacts directly with the nervous system." Despite growing up with a professional sambista as a father, Domenico's first love was drawing. "There was a time I wanted to be a visual artist, a painter, but in music there was the meeting, the partnership, the friends, it's a more seductive ambience," Domenico says. He laments that he can't find time to do both, "but I realize more and more that my music is influenced by images and by visual arts in general," Domenico says. "When I'm going to record an album, I look for a "photo" that's in line with the image [in my mind] I have for the album.
