Joan Thiele in Sanremo 2025: “Gino Paoli is King”
“Eco” is the song with which Joan Thiele debuts this year at the Sanremo Festival. “It is a song against fear because it tells how important it is to know what destabilizes us”, explains the singer -songwriter, born in 1991, guest of the Rockol Lounge, at the headquarters of the Tenco club.
Why is “Eco” a song against fear?
Because it tells how important it is to know what destabilizes us. Fear is something that we always carry behind, since we are born until the end. It is a way to get to know it and to cross it.
Have you been afraid to come to the Sanremo Festival?
A lot, and a lot of anxiety. And it is a reason why this festival for me represents an important moment on a human level. It makes me understand how much, sometimes, it is necessary to let things go, not having to check everything. Cross the fear, in fact, something that is not under one’s own control. Beyond the result, from a working point of view, on a human level, I think this is beautiful.
You go on stage with a guitar, but it’s not any guitar.
I have it Designed with a friend of mine. He invented a material called Marwoolus, composed of marble and wool. We have been working on it for two or three years. We did a couple of prototypes.
From a musical point of view, this song is in line with what is your world and your sound. An adjective that somehow frames this song is “cinematic”.
THEAnd soundtracks are certainly a very strong point of reference in my listening and therefore also a little in my research in recent years. The song is an important piece of the album. I struggle to give him a label, because I put it inside a lot of me. Everything is increasingly fluid. Certainly, the word “cinematographic” can help people have an idea of using sounds.
How important was it for you to take some time to face and find a way to write new songs?
For me music is a serious game and I’m trying to make it light. But for me it is truly an urgency. With this time I took I wanted to be able to tell a story, work on sounds and words. I decided to take this time, albeit with difficulty, because it is a very frenetic market. But I am more interested in doing the things I feel and represent me.
In this sense, is the song also a claiming its choices by referring faithful to themselves?
It is an important song because I don’t feel I have compromised.
For the evening of the covers, why did you choose to make a cover of “What’s” by Gino Paoli in duet with Frah Quintale?
Gino Paoli is a King of Italian music. I liked the idea of paying homage to the Festival this song, a love song. I find it very difficult to write love songs and I really think I never really succeeded. SortFacing a love song is the most difficult thing, in my opinion, and I think there is a lot of need for love in this period. Bringing this piece for me is also a liberating moment. I am very happy to do it with Frah Quintale, because he is a dear friend of mine, and he is an artist who respects a lot, who is also part of my world, my scene, of the newspaper. I wanted to share this moment of Sanremo in a real way, with someone with whom I share my life, the music, with which I go to the studio, with which I confront.
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