HOMAGE TO GANESH
Kazuhito e Keiko Yamashita

Although Ganesh Del Vescovo is one of our most treasured friends we see him rarely, living as we do so far from him. He is strikingly different from the norm; this difference almost allows one to imagine him as having stepped out of the pages of a fairy tale or mythology.
Originally "Ganesh" is the name of the Hindu god of wisdom, who has the face of an elephant - his name was bestowed to him by a yogi. His family name of "Del Vescovo" is very rare in all of Italy and means 'of the bishop'.
He naturally composes, plays instruments and listens to music, unassumingly and with no attempt to show off his talents and learning. His music conveys a sense of deep satisfaction in itself - we believe that even flowers strain their ears to hear it.
He was born and brought up in a beautiful farm village in central Italy called Ronzano, unknown to any tourist. In his boyhood he walked around with a magpie perched on his shoulder, which flew down to him at a moment's notice, and spent his days playing the guitar in a grassy plain which fireflies filled in summer.
We haven't encountered the kind of abundance found in his music anywhere else; we don't know anyone else whose life is soaked in the quiet joy of music in the way that his life is.

Keiko Fujiie and Kazuhito Yamashita