Up is a Jazz/World self-produced album by Pasqualino Ubaldini, Paolo and Roberto Pavan.

The album tells a journey through the sounds and colors of the World. Among the compositions, there are typical music styles from various ethnic traditions. "Savarnah", a samba feeling; "Ballata del Felipe" is a rumba; "Adkezin" is a flamenco with an Arabic influenced style; "A Man At The Clock" and "Promenade" with a Manouche/ragtime styles, are inspired by Harold Lloyd's film (Safety Last); "Black Trees" and "Five Special Blues" are typical blues ballads; "Saltimbanco" is a Tango feeling; "Pioggia" and "Fado" are fragments of inspired music.

Among the ethnic instruments used in the creation of the album are: Oud, Kazoo, traditional percussion, Hammond Organ and accordion.

Pasqualino Ubaldini was born in Rome in 1965. Has studied guitar with Maurizio Lazzaro, Fabio Mariani and Stefano Micarelli. He plays acoustic/electric guitars and typical instruments like the Oud, Saz, Bouzuki, Mandolino and Fado guitars. He collaborates with various Italian folk bands and has recorded many albums as a composer and musician.

The songs on this album were composed by Paolo Pavan and Pasqualino Ubaldini in 2013.

The music on Soundpainting is a kind of alternative-pop-ethno style mixed with ambient, chillout, nujazz and acoustic elements.

You will find abstract pictures, visions and musical landscapes.

Although the mood in the songs is mostly melancholic and emotional the message is only positive.

Soundpainting presents infinity, personal knowledge, spiritual way and possibly a dialog with the God which brings the light and love to this music. Sonically and technically, Soundpainting covers a wide variety of different sounds recorded in the Lunar Room studio. Lunar5 loves the warmth and depth of true analog gear and also modern creative digital tools so you the listener can hear a lot of diverse sounds.

Most of the instruments was recorded and mixed by the founder and producer Lukas Rufer.
There are also the additional painters and quests: Martin Linda a.k.a Amorphine, Popsie, Vaclav Hlavka, Filip Alexander a.k.a Tharian and Otakar Stepanek

Soundpainting is Lunar5's debut album and was recorded during the years 2009 - 2012.

Love is the universal language and the thing that binds us all together. It comes in many forms and has given me much of my inspiration over the years. Love is beautiful and can be a difficult feeling to describe.

I hope that my music does it justice and that anyone who listens will feel what I felt when composing each song. I dedicate this to my wife because she has stood by my side, encouraging me to keep writing. Hopefully I am able to express what words cannot describe as I continue on my journey.

This album is dedicated to my strong and beautiful wife. I composed the album over a span of seven years, encompassing my experiences with personal growth, life, and the most important is love.

This album incorporates its own blend of electronica, house and techno with some jazz, easy listening and rock influences.

Notes on the songs:

A scattering quantum of light finds that....(1)

.... Like dewdrops we watch this morning sky as it comes by (2) Such shimmering beacons of delight, traveling the distances of our own hearts (4) It's a marvelous journey, to take us safe home (6) ....

... But the thundering night has made its call (3) Man is but a bleeding shadow, to the sea of the light (5) And our shrieks resonate into immensity, longing for the flight (7) ...

Will you join it through the memory of your mind? (8)

John Dowland (1563-1626), an English Renaissance composer, singer and lutenist was the period's most renowned and significant composer of lute solos, lute songs (voice and lute) and consort music. His popularity and recognition during his lifetime appear to be at odds with how he perceived himself. Perhaps he had a realistic view of his place in the panorama of history. His melancholic lyrics and music have often been described as his creation of an "artistic persona", for he was actually known to be a mostly cheerful person.

Dowland composed some 90 works for solo lute, many of which are dance forms. Melancholy does not dominate this album of Dowland's lute music played on 8-string guitar. The works, instead reflect a variety of moods and settings. It is said that Dowland was musically influenced by his numerous travels to the continent and there are instances in his music that sound like glimpses of the future. In the last 40 seconds of the final track on this album ("A Fancy") one can hear the tremelo of Francisco Tarrega's famous guitar piece "Recuerdos de la Alhambra" followed by a pattern similar to the one used by Isaac Albeniz in his celebrated "Leyenda" (Asturias). Both of these Spanish classics were written about 300 years after Dowland.