Don’t Be Mad When I Take Your Picture
Peter Albertelli is a multi-instrumentalist/singer/songwriter from Franklin Square, New York. After two winters of arduous writing and recording, the sophomore album, “Don’t Be Mad When I Take Your Picture” comes to being. Staring down a wall of ice, Peter Albertelli sinks in his feet, one at a time, abseiling to his heart’s floor. The first track, Don’t Be Mad When I Take Your Picture jauntily taunts the subject with sarcasm, using whole tones to stir up the palette. Never being direct, the lyrics bend around ideas and harmonies warp along for the ride- a throw forward and backward- at once, to the impressionists of a bygone era. Last Man Off offers an eerie look into the devastating future of mankind. Belaying on textures both dense and sparse, the thoughts ring true in Ars Nova and Forget the Gun, daring to expose the grandeur of song-writing and the simplicity of error in judgement. Scratch Marks leave their intended mark, without altering their place “on the mantle” as it were. Between Twelve and Fourteen leaves the listener in a state of dis-ease regarding the “thirteenth floor” and #13 bridges awkwardly but rightfully. The track Gnomon is a religious farce in failed memory and regret, leading to a vivid impression of memories in Lamplight Silhouette. The album ends in a careless throw-away manner under I Give a Damn About You, almost in an oxymoronic fashion. Urging a listen, Don’t Be Mad When I Take Your Picture is an album of many hues and swirls a la Un dimanche après-midi à l'Île de la Grande Jatte.
Peter Albertelli
Peter Albertelli’s sophomore solo album, Don’t Be Mad When I Take Your Picture released on Friday, June 13, 2014 under his own label, Semton Records. “After a bunch of years playing acoustic covers, I figured I had something of my own to put down in sound,” he said. “The more I listened to other artists and rearranged their music, the more I had this need to put my own tunes together, connect with people through my own ideas. This album is a personal reflection of the darker side of emotions- betrayal, death, regret, jealousy, and ugliness. These are songs that I’ve lived with... and they tell my story as an artist.”
“They were all originally concieved on acoustic guitar, but that quite often evolved after the scratch track went down.” All tracks were composed, recorded, engineered, mixed, and mastered by the artist. Nick Troise, from the acoustic duo Three Sheets, lends his vocals on the haunting track, Ars Nova. “I wore all the hats, and that can be pretty lonely…but Nick often acted as an unofficial sounding board and producer for me, casually listening to stuff I’d recorded and giving his opinions on structure, phrasing and general sonic landscape.”
Three Sheets regularly performs in Long Island, New York and has garnered a sizeable word-of-mouth following for their interesting interpretations of songs and energetic set-lists. “I’ll keep playing covers, but Don’t Be Mad When I Take Your Picture is a crowning achievement for me. Playing live hones my ability to connect with an audience, as well as my guitar chop…but there is something personal about putting your own stuff out there, on your digital sleeve, as it were.”
