How do you start your own solo career with an album dedicated to eight famous suicides? If you are Tommaso / Girless, officially“ paused” by the experience of Girless & The Orphan, you can. His album, I have a call, relates with the last step of Hemingway, Primo Levi, Mario Monicelli, Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath, Vladimir Majakovsij, Luigi Tenco. And to the one of a person that did not commit suicide, like Giuseppe Pinelli. All with the help of the Urali, who sings in two songs and plays bass in one. Can you explain how and why you’ ve come now to your first solo album? The last record of Girless & The Orphan was released in October 2014 and for a year we carried it throughout Italy. In February 2016 we talked, and we decided to take a break to focus on other things, personal or in music.
I had no intention at the time to do something alone, I had some unfinished songs that I had started to work and by the time I became convinced that it was best to keep them totally acoustic, just guitar and voice. Hence it arose the need to record a solo lp. Why an lp dedicated to suicide people? I remember one morning I was wandering on the internet without a definite purpose. You know when you open a link from there, and then you open another twenty, until you arrive on a site or a page distant from that from which you started? Here it is. I ended up on this page that talked about celebrities who had committed suicide. I began to read their stories and to deepen my own. From there, I selected eight characters and I thought it would be challenging to try to tell their stories.
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How do you start your own solo career with an album dedicated to eight famous suicides? If you are Tommaso / Girless, officially“ paused” by the experience of Girless & The Orphan, you can. His album, I have a call, relates with the last step of Hemingway, Primo Levi, Mario Monicelli, Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath, Vladimir Majakovsij, Luigi Tenco. And to the one of a person that did not commit suicide, like Giuseppe Pinelli. All with the help of the Urali, who sings in two songs and plays bass in one. Can you explain how and why you’ ve come now to your first solo album? The last record of Girless & The Orphan was released in October 2014 and for a year we carried it throughout Italy. In February 2016 we talked, and we decided to take a break to focus on other things, personal or in music.
I had no intention at the time to do something alone, I had some unfinished songs that I had started to work and by the time I became convinced that it was best to keep them totally acoustic, just guitar and voice. Hence it arose the need to record a solo lp. Why an lp dedicated to suicide people? I remember one morning I was wandering on the internet without a definite purpose. You know when you open a link from there, and then you open another twenty, until you arrive on a site or a page distant from that from which you started? Here it is. I ended up on this page that talked about celebrities who had committed suicide. I began to read their stories and to deepen my own. From there, I selected eight characters and I thought it would be challenging to try to tell their stories.