interview
Tain
With alien appearances, funk and
hip hop influences, Tain has pu-
blished Ufologia, his first solo al-
bum. You play funk rock, but as
a soloist an electronic-hip-hop
side emerges. Why this brea-
kthrough?
I love funk, I must say that liste-
ning to the Red Hot with Blood Su-
gar Sex Magic at 16 has influenced
me a lot, but from then on I’ve
always played in various bands,
with the classic training, guitar,
bass and drums. Now that for the
first time in many years I found
myself without a band, I realized
that it was not necessarily a bad
thing. I suffered for being left wi-
thout, I wanted to, but maybe it
was time to experiment a bit. I had
already started years ago an electro-
nic solo project, only instrumental.
However, it had a very lounge style,
perfect music for the summer out-
door aperitif. I’ve never concluded
it for now. But the “la” was given
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to me by a spectacular cartoon cal-
led Regular Show. There are some
wonderful music in every episode;
the sounds used are brilliant: syn-
thesizers 80/90 years and specta-
cular melodies. I enjoyed myself! I
had underestimated the synthesi-
zers. In many songs on the album
I have completely replaced them
with bass and guitar. This is how
Ufologia was born, my first solo
project entirely written and played
by me. It was not my intention to
publish it, I was disappointed by
the world of live music in our area
between Milan and Como. Now
I’m glad I did, regardless of how
far it will go.
Where does the choice of the
alien mask and the “ufological”
theme of the album come from?
Coming back to the album, I wan-
ted to be the protagonist, as if
it were the other side of me, the
alien side. I think every person has
an alien side, the side of us lin-
ked to the universe, to the cosmos,
where maybe there is another
version of us identical in appea-
rance. I have always
been passionate about
the theme aliens and
ufo, it is a way of realistic
dreaming, who can deny the pre-
sence of aliens? Who can deny that
God exists? Maybe they are the
same thing, or maybe, simply hu-
manity is disappointing me and this
is a way to change point of view.
Or I was kidnapped.
How was the opening track,
“Alien Invasion” born?
Alien invasion was born by itself, I
removed the filters to the brain and
I started writing without worrying
about looking too direct. The phra-
ses came by themselves without
giving me time to think, I left the
control of the hand that was wri-
ting to my alien side, looking at the
planet as if I were not part of it, as
if I were an
alien looking
from space
as we behave.
6/7 pages of
text. I had to
vent.
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