interview
as their common feature the characteristic of
“caring” of the collective good and the real
desires of the individual, and is solely intended self-interest. We chose this song as the
first single, it seemed the most appropriate, since it has a beginning and an end very
hard, harmonic and sweet.
Can you talk about the instruments you
used to play on this record?
Amplifiers strictly Orange and Fender guitars, Ampeg for bass, guitars Gibson Les Paul
and Fender Jaguar sg and then, Jazz Master
and Telecaster, Gibson Thunderbird bass. For
drums we used various different components, but not being a drummer I am unprepa-
What moods and feelings gave birth to
“L’eticAmorale”?
The album stems from the refusal to want to
adapt to a way of life imposed by our society,
that seems precarious in every respect and
that take us to sleep through the use of technological toys, designed to intoxicate our basic instinct of survival. No longer it exists an
ethics in its moral, we are in the era of ethics
amoral. This lp comes from a combination
of some songs accumulated in the past, and
new songs, including a couple even born during studio recording.
What were the biggest difficulties you encountered in making the disc, if there were?
Having brought the old songs we realized
during the recordings that in some parts, the
arrangement was less effective than the script
used for the latest songs, so we had to over-
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red, I can tell you that my voice was used a
historical model of microphone which accounted Freddie Mercury, obviously not the
same, that would be too much.
Who is the independent artist Italian you
like the most right now and why?
Pierpaolo Capovilla, front man of Il Teatro
degli Orrori, a man who cares about
the current fashions applied to the concept
of music, an artist with great charisma, which
at times recalls Carmelo Bene, in his intimate way of call on the public, and Pier Paolo
Pasolini, the thickness of the grain of poetry
he uses to tell the life, in a manner so violent
and detailed.
turn largely writing old songs, a great effort
that brought us however an excellent result.
How did you write “Io personalmente me
ne frego” and why you have chosen it as a
single?
It’s a cry that comes from the deep discomfort that is felt against the society, seen
as the superstructure, where the absence of
values and the constant presence of stakes
coercive excessive individuality, free expression. Analyzing the root, there is a feeling of
being in front of a mirror. On the one hand,
as introspective reflection, there is the individual, the free man, that does not feel and
can no longer be part of this structure that
oppresses th