Generic animal is the obsession with melody and redundancy ‘

New Imaie 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.

There are artists who do not resemble anyone else, and certainly Generic Animal belongs by right to this category. In spite of the name it is not any animal, on the contrary, it belongs to an extinction race: that of the songwriters who manage to do the originality of the time of all their production. So much so that he wanted to define his latest single “La Langua”, recently released, as an acoustic, baroque, medieval and hosted passage “, but none of these definitions manages to fully grasp their meaning. True name Luca Galizia, born in 1995, sinks her background in the hardcore and EMA scene of the province of Varese, but does not even disdain genres such as trap and R&B. It is above all after the meeting with the independent label, the storm record that began to feel free to go beyond the genres and develop a completely proper and unique identity, which emerges overwhelmingly in its latest album “Il Canto dell’Avino”, published at the end of 2024.

You have defined your album “Rock poisoned of hysterical R&B, Italian songwriter contaminated with nerve guitars, rumored voices and forgotten piano”. Yet at the same time, it is a very pop (or rather, alt-pop) job. What is your relationship with catchy music?

We tried to find different definitions for this album, because it is certainly very multifaceted. Then of course, it is also to be said that in Italy we continually need labels to make it clear what we do. I don’t deny that in the end I find myself much more in the alt-pop definition than in others. I love “catchy” music, and I think mine is mainly made of obsession with melody and redundancy. So maybe you have to agree on what is pop or not. I definitely play the guitar I really like, and I really like using it as a vehicle to drive everything else. Experimenting, playing tools in an arzigogulated way and proposing them in different and strange key is certainly the thing that has always fomented me more.

You explained that those contained in your songs are true and autobiographical stories. What is the most personal song, among all?

“27” is the most personal and intimate piece, I dare say the most domestic. He talks about a sleepless night spent knocking on the wall of his neighbors by imploring them to stop listening to the Whams! At 5 in the morning. (In all this I want to say that I love Wham!)

More and more artists who would once have been out of the mainstream circuit in the last period are tempted by a participation in Sanremo. Do you follow the festival?

This year I was looking at it a couple of times: obviously I know more or less who won and who participated, but in general there were very little originality, very little desire to really tell something. Who did these songs speak to? What did they mean? I struggle to focus on them.

What do you think of the long -standing issue “Songs written by too many authors” that has recently emerged?

The problem is not the number of authors, but the quality of the final result. In this case it seems to me we listened to a series of songs created following a little trash and engaged stratagems.

Everyone tells that the Italian record market is in excellent health, but what does it mean to be an independent artist today? Do you find that the situation is good for you too or are there things that you think should be improved?

The record market is healthy exactly how it is true that my hair will regrify me if I continue to eat fruit, as my grandmother said. Despite this and continuous bad weather, the situation for “us” is always good. We have no constraints or nothing too substantial to lose, which obviously means being constantly hungry or in any case to have the urgency to do only what you want to do, hoping that it will be intercepted by healthy ears. It is a long and complex speech and I do not want to make it a qualunquista: in my little one I try to do my best to do new things, with artists I respect, friends and friends, self -financing me or financing things in which I believe.

Live chapter: also in this case the tours are more and more, but it is increasingly complicated and expensive to set them up. In your opinion, what is the greatest challenge you face who wants to bring around a live with a band in 2025?

The most important challenge for me is to be serene and safe of what you are doing, being able to enjoy it as you are doing it. It is something that I understood over time, which is acquired only by finding the right connection with your group companions. Things have changed a lot, both technically and artistically. If you are always a step back on an economic level, on an artistic level we are always five steps forward. I am really grateful to be able to play with my friends and the fact that each of them puts their cards and talent at the service of the live surrender. The songs start from me, but are shaped together with the others in a new ever different format.

For an independent musician like you, who cannot count on billions of streaming and who still rely on the live circuit, how much attention is there in knowing and making your rights recognize?

I am learning more and more about these subjects, and I think I am quite aware of my rights and the right that protects the heritage of one’s creativity. But you never stop discovering new things. Certainly the storm records kept me protected in an area of ​​comfort, and helped me in a pleasant and gradual education compared to these things.

You are subscribed to Newimaie, a collection for artists performers performers. Many artists at the debut do not know of the opportunity to be able to count on this type of revenue: what would you say to your young colleagues to explain why is it important to be aware of it?

Inquire about what is up to you, read as much as possible about it. Do not take for granted and never depressed your creativity and your participation, even when you share your ideas with someone and these ideas are recorded (or if you spend a day in the studio with someone new).

Future projects?

I am working on several things, colorful and non -linear collaborations. And I’m producing other artists.