Travelling Fool by Michael Gambino

Album Notes
One day a friend of my urged me to come on a journey with him. I had two weeks to decide to do it and I had never left my country before or lived away from home.
I took the decision to go travelling and was to stay with my friend overseas only for two months and the I was to go off on my own.

With a backpack and my guitar I set off by myself to stay with people I had only met along the way.

I found myself more open than I had ever been. This made it extremely easy for me to pick up my guitar and write catchy, confident and heartfelt songs with ease. I wrote them in people's houses, in hostel dorms, I continued to write when I got back home and went back over seas to continue my 'story' as I naively chased a girl I had fallen for. This is where the song "Travelling Fool" comes in.

The album is also called Travelling Fool because people in my home town were always condescending my adventures telling me that I had to "come back to reality."

For me this was reality. I would fly to a country and take my guitar out onto the streets of popular tourist attractions like the Fontana Di Trevi in Rome. I used to make enough money for accommodation and food for the day as well as some extra to spend on site-seeing and beers for my mates back at the hostel.

In Amsterdam I earned enough money to buy a flight to Italy and kept the adventures going.

When you are travelling It's easy to learn that life in transient, that people come and go, that love comes and goes. You realise that the only reason you met these amazing people in this place is because you left the last place and the amazing people you met there.

When I had learned just about everything I could possibly learn at the time and had experienced enough emotion as I could handle, I teamed up with Australian-Born Hollywood Producer Peter Mullins to make this Adventure of an Album.

Only the best, most fitting songs were laid down to give this album a shape that carries the listener through a journey of growth and learning. Each song has it's place and makes way for the next catchy tune to send it's message out into the world.

Michael Gambino is Australia's next singer/guitarist to reach a worldwide audience, beginning by filming his debut Music Video in Argentina (Buenos Aires) for his sing "Travelling Fool" (No Melody)" which was the winner of the 2011 Catapult Song Contest winning the Voter's Choice Award for Best Original Australian Unsigned Song.

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