Hey, super nice to have the chance to chat with you. What have you been up to over the past year in this big old mess?
Hi! Super nice to meet you too. Basically, since the first lockdown, I tried to make the best out of such unexpected global pause and focused on creating and playing music. It allowed me to discover and build a new approach to music production and follow inspiration and composition flows that I kept alive through time, last year included.
I’m very interested in how you started your adventure with music, and did you know from the beginning that this is what you wanted to do?
Yes, definitely. I guess it started the day in which my dad called me in the kitchen, while he was preparing breakfast, to listen to a cassette he dubbed the night before from someone else’s cd. The stereo was playing a Beatles’ collection (one of the double greatest hits, the ones with red and blue covers). Suddenly something clicked in my mind, something unreversible and definitive.
Congrats on the release of ‘IVXVI’, the album sounds great. What was the inspiration behind it?
I guess that the isolation I experienced during covid times played a crucial role along with the pleasure to play with samples I created on my own. Many tracks were born in that way. If I heard a song in a movie, or on YouTube or Spotify I suddenly felt the need to save it with my samplers and kick off a composition process.
What’s your favorite track on the album and why?
Very hard to tell, maybe the track Anytime. It had another intro until a few days ahead of closing the work at the studio. I wasn’t convinced at all by it, and I just tried a second version using a piano sequence I composed on Ableton. It worked immediately and it gave me a deep sensation of relief!
What are you doing to ensure you continue to grow and develop as an artist?
Actually, I try to not close my approach into comfort zones or automatisms. I like to expose myself to processes of discovering and experimentation.
What should we expect from your next releases in terms of style and sound? How different are they going to be compared to your previous works?
I would leave this consideration to those who will listen to my previous and future releases. Generally speaking, I really can’t tell where my style and sounds head to. I’m very fast in changing directions. I would like to be more minimal and essential, but at the same time I know I’m very connected with melodies and catchy lines and this peculiarity often brings me to an organic and complex attitude. Anyway, I really can’t predict my music, honestly.
Where are you based? Can you tell us how the music scene there has inspired your sound at all?
I’m based in Bologna, Italy, a city with a long history connected with the Italian squats scene in terms of culture and arts. As many other cities Bologna is involved in process of huge changes but at the same time it conserves a lot of spontaneous attitude and energy. The music scene has always been very intense here and so it is now.
If you could perform at any venue in the world, where would it be and why?
I’d like to play at Ment festival, Ljubljana. Many people that have been there told me is a great venue. It would be great.
Finally, have you got anything to share regarding upcoming gigs, and what have you got planned for 2023?
I’ve got a few live dates planned and I am adding other ones. Currently I am preparing a live duo set with Paolo Raineri (trumpetist of Ottone Pesante, Junkfood 4tet and more). It’s a new formula that I really can’t wait to test on stage. I’ve been recently playing in Paris and Brussels and I would like to add more gigs around Europe for the next months.
