Fabi: “The look as a child is preserved with the adventures”
For Paolo Sorrentinoin “great beauty”, happiness, sometimes, can hide in a memory of youth. For Niccolò Fabi, Among the folds of the time, instead you can find grains of freedom because the playful adolescent feeling is capable of putting wings for new music writing. “Freedom in the eyes”, his new album released on May 16, smells of all this: adventure, sharing, natural propensity not to follow paths already beaten. The project is the son of a real artistic residence that took place among the lakes, the snow and mountains of the Val di Sole in Trentino. The singer -songwriter wanted travel companions with him he chose for the realization of the disc: Roberto Angelinisongwriter and his twenty years of music, the refined songwriter Alberto Bianco and the drummer Filippo Cornagliawith whom he shares the stage and has been collaborating for almost ten years, Emma Noldenew pearl of the Italian songwriter, Cesare Augusto Giorginisinger -songwriter and producer known thanks to the experience at the Pier Paolo Pasolini workshops where Fabi teaches. Scrolling through the photos of that period, one of these has become the cover, It seems to review the CSI.
“When did they make crazy trips, like the one in Mongolia? – smiles fabi – well, yes, we lived a similar anaus ‘Sharing on the go’. Journey to a destination that none of us knew. So we were more receptive. In our chat, before leaving, we asked ourselves everything: do we bring the sleeping bag? The gun to frighten the bears? Each eventually opted for so many different tools. The air was electric, we were about to live an adventure, and this was perceived more than the idea of recording a disc. On the album, the listener will find a photographic book to relive that journey with us“. What was born there, in that sharing, and how pre -ostrum had it been?” It would be nice to be able to say ‘everything was born there, but it would have been impossible-continues Fabi-I had brought behind 4-5 more or less finished songs, 3-4 registered things not convincing and butts of sentences here and there. I was aware that there could have been a magic jam from which something to be born, how not. So I brought with me pieces like ‘flowing water’ that, in moments when nothing was born, could become a point to find a balance. But something totally unpublished has arrived, and in this block there is also my favorite song …“.
It is “Alba”, reminiscent of the Sigur Rós, the frozen atmospheres of their Iceland: It is based on an expanse electronics and on a single phrase mantra, “I am in the pause that is between understanding and changing”. It is one of the jewels born completely among those mountains. “He could only be born there – admits Fabi – is a post rock piece that brings me back to bands that I love like Mogwai. Before leaving, we had made a playlist of artists who agree and all that world was present. It was the first piece we recorded. It is my ideal of song: very few words, imagination to the maximum. I would always like to disappear with my stories and leave the listener the opportunity to fly, to build his story. I will get more and more in that direction “. The disc, in several moments, rewinds the belt of the life of the singer -songwriter, speaks of adolescence, of dialogue between generations, there is an interaction between today’s Fabi and that of yesterday. And this was also possible thanks to the “game” dimension faced during processing.
“We lived everything like A big class trip – he admits – This setting had a weight, exactly as the songs I had in their heads or that were born there, related to the dimension of youth have had it. But always in a nostalgic way, nor detached. The crystalline gaze of a child, who over time corrupts, can be kept by living adventures, witnessing his freedom. I wanted to do this: to defend it. Emma Nolde represented the same me of thirty years ago, having it next to me helped me a lot to create a dialogue between generations, exactly like the presence of Cesare Augusto Giorgini, who was a pupil of mine at Pasolini “. “The peace” of Marracash and “Ranch” of Salmo are over from a moment of isolation: can the thorn from the frenzy of today’s frenzy rekindle creativity? “I have always been a telescope, with which to look at things as a distant – concludes Fabi – I lived in the countryside for a long time. I have always been serene out of the car, and it is a role that I wanted and searched. The artists who were mentioned are inside the market for the giant numbers they make, They can detach themselves for a while because they are suffocated, but then they have to return to certain dynamics inside. I do not“.
