Angelini and Erasmus’ music is an antidote to solitude

“Light domination”the unprecedented musical and literary project of Roberto Angelini and Rodrigo d’Erasmoat work on “A first album” together after years of intense collaboration and deep work on Nick Drake’s music, it is a mysterious and multifaceted object. COme everything that has to do with fire and light, around which the first women and the first men of the earth gathered, is an antidote to solitude. It is an instrumental music album, a sort of soundtrack of an imaginary film, imagined. But also A book to which “many authors and authors that we love and with whom we wanted to collaborate and confront each other” have contributedexplain the two musicians. To the writings are added the visual works of Gianluigi Toccafdo. “Light domination” is a tout court work (here the presentation tour), which dares, which goes further. He makes himself listened to, gets read, he makes himself look and, after heating, leaves the last word to the user. Stimulates to give one’s interpretation, This is why it is magical as a spark of light in the darknessis a bandage on the wound of our feeling alone, despite being hyper-contemporary.

“The initial flame was the love of both for different artistic souls. We are explorers, the curious of other disciplines. This is a debut album. We understood that we found our sound. And then this is an excellent period for instrumental music, even internationally – says D’Erasmo – For me, specifically, the spark was René Magrittethe impact he had in art and literature. There is a painting, ‘Dominion of Light’, which can be seen in Venice, who has struck me. It tells the today, that oxyment between lights and darkness that, however, coexist as the news also reminds us. All the artists involved were responsible for dealing with this issue“. It was all born in a very natural way.“ There are those who, before writing, listened to the songs, and who listened to some little things and that’s it. Sandro Bonvissuto, for example, was convinced that one of the songs was the precise soundtrack for what he had written, I found him very fascinating – admits Angelini – I believe that you can listen to the disc, reading the writings, without losing attention. It is a particular combination. And then leave the listener an ‘after’. In the sense that this project does not close “. Is it as if he left a white page?” Yes, exactly, it would be beautiful if those who listen and read, after giving his interpretation of this light binomial light-shadow through a thought, a song, what he wants. This work wants to stimulate, wants to react those who embrace him, want to open a passage … “, continues Angelini, making it clear that this could only be the” first season “of something even wider.

He intervenes from Erasmus: “On these circles that open, I can anticipate that Filippo Timi, listening to the disc, told us: I want this music to be the soundtrack of my next film because it allowed me to understand how to close the script”. What affects “The dominion of light” is the degree of emotion that releases. “Two years ago we said to each other: we do something of our own, no longer at the service of someone – continues Angelini – Our soul is in the end is pop, we are not making a technical exhibition, this is not a jazz disc, it is a disc with speechless songs. The sounds of our tools are our ways of singing, the emotionality for me lies there. Emotions pass from there ”. Music, as it is right to be, can dress the environment.“ We have made some test On the people before publishing the album – he smiles of Erasmus – in a house in Puglia, we put some coffers and we started at very different moments, from those of relaxation at parties. And we realized how the songs could accompany these very different moments with each other“. Angelini concludes with a last significant sentence:” You can also listen to this album also distracted …One of our sources of inspiration were the Hermanos Gutiérrez, which we have felt a lot, for consecutive days. We said: ‘These made a beautiful instrumental album. Why not do it too, with our sound identities? ‘ I finished the words, sometimes happens. Hence the fire, the desire to make something musical …And then to raise the flame, involving other artists. It is a collective work“.