Patrick Djivas: “With Fabrizio it was easy to fight and make peace”

The bassist of the PFM Patrick Djivas He was a guest of the new episode of the Adnkronos vodcast. In addition to presenting the band’s latest effort, the live album “Pfm sings De André Anniversary”inevitably spoke of the experience with Fabrizio De André. “With Fabrizio it was very easy to fight. It was done thirty times a day. But, more thirty times we did peace, as if nothing had happened. He was a formidable person and was a happy marriage. “

There Premiata fornia Marconi He began to collaborate with De André in 1978. Djivas said in this way as happened: “When we met him in Sardinia, he no longer wanted to make music. He had come to a point where he wanted to stop. He missed something. He had singing and texts, but not music. With us he found the third leg of the table. We are proud to have contributed to this heritage, not only for the work done, but because we have given Italy other twenty years of Fabrizio De André “.

Speaking of the music and songs of the Genoese singer -songwriter who disappeared in January 1999, that the PFM He brings to concert, the musician from the French Christmas highlighted. “Fabrizio knew how to offer an alternative to everyday reality. Not a trivial alternative, but of the highest quality, intelligent and important. Today’s guys, who already have many difficulties with reality, can find something essential in his words. And the extraordinary thing is that what Fabrizio said was not difficult to understand: it was profound, but accessible to everyone. At our concerts we see many very young 13-14 years old, as well as people of our age. There is an incredible variety of generations. Because Fabrizio’s music has no age. And this is his magic ”.

Djivas had the opportunity to highlight the existing differences between the music scene of the seventies and that of the day today: “It is difficult to imagine a collaboration between two entities such as the PFM and a songwriter of the caliber of Fabrizio De André today, even if the idea remains fascinating. It would be interesting, for example, to combine a rapper of a certain type to a group like the PFM: the artistic and musical potential of such a project would be remarkable. Today the musical collaboration takes place mainly between artist and computer. It would be wrong to ignore the influence of the time: each era has its own characteristics and its reality. It should not be believed that music no longer exists. Quite the opposite. Each historical moment has its value, regardless of the tools it uses to express itself. Music always follows the needs of the youth mass of the moment. It helps the boys to live their present, to paint that moment, and cannot do differently. Criticizing the present is easy, but perhaps we don’t understand it all the way. Today’s music is not better or worse: it is simply the mirror of the time we live in ”.

In the opinion of the 77 -year -old Djivas in our country, music is often treated superficially from the media: “Let’s say that in Italy we have a little bad luck that music is treated mainly by television. And television makes television, it doesn’t make music. Sanremo, for example, is a container with a thousand things inside, where music is only a common thread. The same goes for talent shows. In Italy we are a bit unfortunate from this point of view ”.

While the festival was mentioned, it also spends two words on the latest edition of the coastal event and declares that she has appreciated the version of “The fisherman” Of Fabrizio De André proposed by Olly together with Goran Bregovic In the evening dedicated to the covers: “We liked it very much. He used our arrangement, but with his sounds. This thing made us very please, of course. “

About the decision of some musicians to announce the farewell tour, he gives his point of view (and that of the PFM) On the question: “There are artists who announce the last tour, the last year, the latest dates. Usually they last another ten years later! People fall there, go to see the concert thinking that it will be the last time. Us? We never did it. But we will do it one day or the other, necessarily. But without an announcement before. We will never play on the fact of saying that it is the last tour to facilitate its trend. This is not in our ropes ”.