Plant, from La Sad to the solo album: “Maldivita is my journey”
“Life pain is a bit of the disease of my generationwhich is completely hyperconnected. We shake the happiness of others but we can no longer look at ours. Yet although we are so connected, we are increasingly distant, unable to listen to us. We live under constant pressure: we must always be 100%, consume and produce relentlessly, because at the first stop the company considers us failed, disappeared. We don’t even have time to really listen to us. ” It is from here that Plant He chooses to leave to tell his first solo album“Maldivita”, released on October 3 for Mast/Believe. The singer adds: “Another symptom is the need to always show us perfect, always happy, sharing only the best moments. But I think our wounds are also trophies: they are what makes us unique. Here, ‘Maldivita’ is the story of my journey“.
The title, which also resonates in the title track of the disc, is not just a personal manifesto, but a diagnosis of a historical time present, in which The external noise covers the inner silence. The album arrives after four years lived in the spotlight with The SAD and that for Plant scores the beginning of a new roadintimate and collective together.
Plant after the Sad: sounds and messages of “maldivita”
“I worked on my first album for a long time“, The singer explains to Rockol, at the registry office Francesco Emanuele Clemente, born in 1999:” I recorded it over a year, but inside this album There are ideas that I carry with me since I was a child And who have found the light only now. I am very excited, but I don’t hide that I also have a little fear, because I am completely naked: I am bringing my real person out, without wraps or masks that sometimes are worn to be successful. At the same time, however, they are super loaded: I feel like when I was 16when I started making music in Puglia, against everything and everyone “.” Maldivita “is built for this on very varied sounds, which bring back to the roots at the time of the freestyle contests at the age of 15, but also look at the influences that arrived after the first individuals and the transfer to Milan, together with theExplosion with the SAD. Just the path shared with Theø and Fiks was a Plant for a “fundamental” moment: “Allowed me to make me bones e gave me an identity“: says the singer, who therefore became ready and aware to get to know and bring out himself:” Music is also sharing, but it remains very personal: we all felt the need to take different paths. However, the utmost respect and gratitude for what we have done together remains. “
“The sounds of ‘maldivity’ are very varied among them. I have always dreamed of making a record like thiseven as a listener “, Plant points out:” Each song is a world in itself, but all the pieces fit. Inside there are all my nuances, both in the texts and in the sound. I put elements of the us-trap, punk, screenam, rap. I tried to bring all the things I love to do and that I can do. For this reason I would not say that there is a precise genre: The genre is me. And I will always focus on my voice and on my texts, from now on. “Fundamental, in this process, The meeting with deceased Mikeone of the producers who accompanied Plant in the discovery of the potential of his voice. If until yesterday he thought he had to always force on the high notes, here he learned to move even in low shades, to make fragility and strength live, experimenting with dynamics that return three -dimensionality to the songs. “Mike helped me to get out of my dough so many insecurities“, The artist says:” I thought I had to always sing at the top of the high notes, while he made me understand that my low voice was a strong point. So I used all the facets: low parts, high parts, and new dynamics. I also understood that my main weapon is writing: I want to focus on deep texts, don’t stay on the surface. Each song has a precise theme, and I think they are the ones with a strong and timeless message to stay, not the trends of the moment“.
Unlike the first adolescent works, jet writings and delivered to the urgency, such as the individual “better days” of 2019 or “Without you” of 2020, for each song of his first album, Plant stresses that he has sought “A precise concept“. In” Maldivita “, personal issues or generational stories are thus faced, through autobiographical stories or stories of fantasy characters.”In the album there are social pieces who want to make you think, like ‘the hatred chain’. The song ‘Viola’ instead takes inspiration from the life of my girlfriend, who in Milan bangs to realize her dreams – I speak of her, but in reality I see myself again “, says the singer:”And then there are therapeutic songswritten for myself, as a ‘doctor’, in which I tell my experience with health and with psychologists who have not helped me, until they finally find one that understands my world. Writing was a complaint, but also an outlet. If this song can help someone understand that they are not wrong and to have the strength to change, I will have done the right thing “.
“Maldivita”, from the guests to the stage of the general warehouses
“Maldivita” is a job that It is completed with the choice of guests who do not respond to marketing logic, but to real ties, he wants to clarify Plant. In addition to the single already published “hatred message” with the young Florentine singer and rapper Sally Cruzthe disc includes other collaborations. The aforementioned “doctor” counts the participation of Nitropresented by Plant as a “reference point”: “Finding it in the studio ten years later, Gasato for my music, was an incredible boost,” he says. On the “Up & Down” piece, the BNKR44long -term friends, whom Plant and Lasad had crossed during their respective participations in the Sanremo Festival in 2024. On “Pipistrello” is then a guest 18kwhich for Francesco is “one of the artists who has struck me the most in recent years: I see me a lot in his independent path, made of strength and sacrifice”. When asked about what the “underworld” featuring mean, a Plant specifies: “I didn’t want to make a compilation disc As you can see around, with featuring put only to enter the ranking. I chose people who are part of my life“.
Guests will also be an important moment for the appointment of the next October 28th at the General Warehouses of Milan, which will hear the First solo concert by Plant: “A few days after the exit of the album, I will close myself in the rehearsal room throughout October. I have already prepared the show and the lineup, and I put together a very strong band, with really good musicians”, the artist says, before revealing: “There will also be an important scenography. Before me they will go on stage Three artists that I can not reveal yet, but that they are very strong. There will be special guests, and also a DJ set of a well -known evening in Milan, which will be part of my concert. In short, It will be a real partynot only the presentation of the album. I am very loaded “. Speaking of the appearance that the more electrifying it of the live size, Plant tells:” The connection with the public: I like to speak on the stage, listen, do not only play ‘play and go’ “.” In addition, we are rearranged all the pieces to give them a live soul, I like to extend them and make them breathe. And above all I like to really sing, give everything: getting out of voice at the end of the live, because I gave everything. I think people perceive this sincerity, and that it is what makes an unforgettable concert“. This attitude and the work in preparation for the concert at the General Warehouses lead Francesco to find in Post Malone A point of reference in live music: “I have never seen him live, but I have watched many videos and admire his work a lot: rearrangue the pieces with the band, gives him power and authenticity. I really believe in live tools: they create truth, which is often lacking in live with the console. “The question if the Milanese date of late October will be the anticipation of a wider live project, Plant has no doubt:”The goal is a tour. For now we focus on Milan: I want to do things at most, not halfway. But other dates will arrive in the coming months, and I will continue to publish new music that will make sense of the tour“.
