Claudio Baglioni: the previews of the new “Life is now”

The operation is, at least on paper, at the same time very risky and ambitious: to take up an absolute masterpiece of Italian popular music, the best -selling album ever in our country, and revisit it, trying in some way to update it. This is what Claudio Baglioni has tried to do with his “Life is now”: on the occasion of the forty -year of the release of the album, the Roman singer -songwriter returned to the recording studio and rearranged, reinforced and re -entered the songs contained in the historic album of 1985, 4.5 million copies sold in everything. The final work will be released next Friday, June 6thbut to stimulate the curiosity and expectations of Fan Baglioni has decided to share on his official social channels a couple of advances of the project: these are the new versions of “Let’s go home” And “A new day or a new day“. In the clips you can see the singer -songwriter at work together with his band in the engraving room, the Rome Studio Forum, a temple of music played Roman: is the room founded in 1970 by Ennio Morricone, Armando Trovajoli, Luis Bacalov and Piero Piccioni under the basilica of the sacred Immaculate Heart of Mary in Piazza Euclide, where they recorded in the giants of the caliber of Quincy Jones, Placid Domingo, Andrea Bocelli, Morrissey, Duran Duran, Chet Baker, Renato Zero, Adriano Celentano, Zucchero, Francesco De Gregori, Jovanotti, Franco Battiato and where Baglioni himself engraved the successor of “Life is now”, “beyond”.

The new version of the 1985 album, entitled “Life is now, the dream is always“, It will be available in double vinyl in the Gatefold package and 4 different formats, in CD and digital in Dolby Atmos.” Each track has been resounded and sung in the studio live, with renewed arrangements and with the contemporary presence of all the musicians and singers in the room as if to create a direct narrative thread between the project of the time and today’s idea “, reads the statement of Sony Music with which the project was announced. Tracklist of the record project is made up of the 10 tracks of the 1985 album and the song “The dream is always”, which Baglioni included in 1986 on the live album “solo”. From 11 June and pre -orderly (https://www.edizionicurci.it/lvea) In the online stores, in bookstores and at music and record retailers. The box includes three special content, starting with the artist book by Emiliano Ponzi, one of the major Italian contemporary visual artists: a refined coffee table book, of large format (31.5×31.5 cm), in which the Ponzi tables captain, interpret and redesign the themes and intuitions of the songs of “Life is now” by transforming the lyrics of Baglioni into images.