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 .