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hundred, at least. I have done a hundred telephone interviews, and never
the interviewee answered the phone at the
appointed hour. There is always a little delay,
a bit of waiting, a bit of “excuse I am in a taxi
cab”. But with Luca of Verdena, at 11:30, the
established hour for the call, Luca naswers.
He has the reputation of being the most reserved of the group (on Facebook there is
also a well-known group “Complaining of
Luca that is never in interviews of Verdena”).
Luca isn’t by taxi, he is here to answer to my
questions. A moment to recover from his
surprise, and then we go.
You just got off on the tour of “Endkadenz”,
how was your first date?
We went on two dates in Florence, one in
Teramo, yes, all right ...
Moreover, among the first places in the
charts and so on, now you’re used to the
continuous triumph ...
It can be (laughing)
It is not surprising, after all, because you
have remained intact in your music...
It surprises me a lot, every time.
After “Wow”, why did you decide to repeat
the experience of the double album?
Actually we wanted to make a single record.
But then we started to bring down a lot of
things, then you like them because you put
effort in it. We had problems with the recording machine, so we had some time where
we could no longer record and we wrote
stuff. At that point we decided to do the double again, this year. Simple and spontaneous.
Legend tells that Alberto has taken eight to
nine months to compose the lyrics of the
lp. Troubles or perfectionism?
Maybe a little less, but surely six months, a
whole summer plus another couple of months. Let’s say that as always we sang in English or fake English, or something that seems
English to our ears. So for a while we hear
the songs in English. But then we have to
make the move to Italian and it is a bit challenging because you’re used to that English
there, the first time you hear it in Italian it
makes you weird. You know, at first everyting
is playing well and the words doesn’t matter,
and then everything changes. We are singing
in Italian by many years and we want to continue like this. Or either we can change our
name and begin to sing in English...