Gino annoying has welded his debt with music

New Imaie It offers a series of meetings with protagonists and protagonists of the Italian music scene to talk about their projects, but also to deepen the dynamics that revolve around the being an artist interpreter executor.

Although known to the general public thanks to the apparitions to television broadcasts such as Made in South, Colorado, tonight everything is possible, Mad in Italy and Auddiscion, Gino annoyance was born as a musician: the Neapolitan artist, in 2005, debuts with a disc -punk trio, with which he reports on the underground panorama with three self -productions – “the wash of the digital dirty” (2005). “I hate the modern era” (2006) and “I reflect” (2009). Having become popular thanks to word of mouth in the independent live circuit, the Campano performer decides to change his way, approaching the cabaret and transforming itself into “comic songwriter”. The popularity achieved thanks to the small screen, however, did not take away from Gino the desire to return to his first love: last June 6 he came out for Full Heads Records “Trockstar”, the first official album of the Neapolitan artist, who merges to the surreal comedy that made it known to the generalist elect-punk sound audience. A return to the “necessary” origins, explained the artist, who spoke of his long distance test as a “liberation”. A comic disc, but not necessarily demented, at least in the less noble meaning of the term. Why – as he explains – “Who said it cannot be laughing without expressing the discomfort around us?” …

By presenting “It’s gas”, you talked about “Trockstar” as “a debt I had wanted to pay for years”: was there something that made you feel that the right time had come?

It was more than anything else a necessity: I got to the point of not being able to wait anymore. I couldn’t take it anymore to keep the songs in the drawer, so, with the help of Luciano (Chirico, CEO of Full Heads Records, ed.), I published them. I felt it was necessary to do it …

How long have you worked on the songs that ended up in “Trockstar”?

On average three or four years, although on some I was working since 2020. On others even before Covid, more or less from 2018 …

What was the longest phase, when processing? Writing or musical production?

In truth, both. There was a first phase of processing that engaged me more on the musical side, then – later – I dedicated myself to the adaptation of the texts according to the foundations I had created …

Your musical project was born twenty years ago, in 2005: how did you find the world of music in all this time? What has changed for the better? And what worse?

At the time we made a demented punk, and I remember that in Naples, as in the rest of Italy, there was a truly full -bodied underground scene. Today, unfortunately, it is no longer played. I mean in the clubs. And when ringing, the singers also use the foundations. It is not a criticism, I would like to be clear: I use the foundations too …

For what are the sounds of “Trockstar”, yours is however an artistic choice, not comfortable …

Yes, the sound I was looking for was that. We did the presentation of the disc in the trio, guitar, bass and battery, but I like it and I enjoy using electronics. Generally I have two different sets: in the most “comfortable” situations, those where you can play live, feeling well and having fun, the formation I use is the trio. In the less equipped contexts, however, I resort to One Man Showaccompanying me with the guitar and the bases: after all, it is the simplest formula to organize …

First you used the term “demented”, to which you often see yourself approached by the media. Do you like, as a definition, or is it close to you? Or do you appreciate it by virtue of the musical legacy that drags itself behind, from skiantos to helium and tense stories?

Being combined with the artists you mentioned I don’t mind at all, so in this sense I have nothing against the demented term. However, it is probably not really demented in the strict sense. He has more to do with the nonsense. And then, of course, I hope the effect is comic …

How much is your songwriter writing process to that from Stand up comedian? What is the advantage that the years spent between theater and cabaret have given you as a musical artist?

They are two rather different processes. I have a home study, at home, and when I started making music everything started to have experiments with the tools I had available. Then, slowly, I noticed to have a puzzle that I could compose in hand, combining the various musical bases with the texts that I had ready. So I built my songs. Unlike work on stand -up comedy shows, it does not start from the idea of meant something particular, which instead is the basis of my comedian work – where, however, the word is absolutely central, because everything starts from there. A different case – probably halfway between the two already mentioned – are the songs (in “Trockstar, in particular,” Skizzikea “and” Canewedde “, ed) writings guitar and voice …

From a musical point of view, what are your references?

I like Daft Punk, the Kraftwerks and many other things. I listen to a lot of music, but I have not had precise references, for “Trockstar”: I did not follow a particular approach, during the processing, granting myself a lot of freedom …

Your musical project is completely independent: is it a precise choice, or was it simply the most natural thing for the nature of the project itself?

To publish “Trockstar” I did not look for contacts with the labels. I felt directly with Luciano Di Full Heads, to explain the project to him. He showed interest, so we defined the details and we left: I found an open door and I entered it immediately. So no, there was no particular reflection, behind this choice …

For the realization of “Trockstar” you received the contribution of Nuovimaie: do you believe that an “institutional” support of this kind is important for artists who – like you – are external to the Major circuit?

Yes, it was very important. Producing an album involves economic expenses, which can make the management of a project difficult: to receive this contribution, therefore, was very beautiful. Widening the field, the work of newimaie, also in terms of dissemination about the theme of the rights of artists, is fundamental: I myself, despite a career more than twenty years, continue to discover new things …

Are you already thinking about giving a follow -up to “Trockstar”?

By nature I can’t stand still, so yes, I’m already working on new songs. I would like to make a grunge record, with a completely different direction from that of “Trockstar”, something that incorporates also derives prog. I will do it with the band, because I like to play live … yes, it will be interesting: I’m happy with what I’m doing.