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cliché or market influences. The reference to
the moniker clearly goes to Paul Klee, a painter who has made the greatest contribution to
a new painting with a great, rich and varied
artistic personality, being also an excellent
violinist and a lover of classical music.
Can you explain the reasons of playing with
the orchestra?
The fact of not having path obligations allowed us to roam the arrangement factor in
a very open way, by putting in place all the
knowledge that we have accumulated both in
our artistic path. In particular I was always
been fascinated by the symphonic orchestrations and I do not deny that I wanted to
become a conductor. My way of thinking is
very special then, just consider the fact that in
adolescence I only listened to Beethoven and
then I found myself listening (by my neighbour), AC / DC, Saxon, Iron Maiden...
In your traditional hard rock sounds, synthetic sounds and orchestral recordings are
mixed in many pieces. Was it difficult to
find a proper balance between the various
“sources”?
In fact it was not easy to produce such a rich
of elements and sound album. Often we had
to make choices and take out the arrangements to which we were bound in pre-production, to create the right sound levels and
to get our music to a wide audience that
would love it in all its facets. The gratifying
thing is that even people away from rock can
appreciate our songs, because rich in elements that do not recall a single genre.
How is it born “The Prisoner”?
It is the first song written for the Klee Project.
Created almost by chance, we wanted to write
a song in Evanescence and Avenged Seven-
Klee project
Experienced musicians, with important collaborations and militancy in their résumé,
one day they decided to join forces and play
a solid rock. But with the help of an rchestra.
So can be described premises and sensations
evoked by Klee Project, a project set up by
Roberto Sterpetti & Enrico “Erk” Scutti, with
the help and collaboration of Marco Sfogli,
Lorenzo Poli and Antonio Aronne, with symphonic orchestra directed by Francis Santucci
and other collaborators here and there. The
album is called The Long Way and we have
put a few questions to Sterpetti and Scutti.
Can you tell how did the “Klee Project” is
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born? Do the name has something to do
with the painter?
Everything comes to the desire to express
something that represents us from the musical point of view, but also from the staff, who
brings in music a variety of feelings and experiences without the obligation to follow any
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