Renato Zero: “The records want to make us become numbers”

“The exams never end,” Renato Zero says with a smilebefore opening up as a sacred book in front of journalists. The journey of “LA ORZERO”, new unreleased album to be released on October 3rd For tactics, for him, in fact, it is a new challenge. He has nothing to demonstrate to anyone, the race is once again with himself: “Apart from the terrible 54 wars declared today in the world, in each of us there is a turmoilthere are situations to fix. We are ourselves the enemy. In this album I try to win this battle ”. The disc is divided into 19 tracks: nineteen different worlds, each of which has its own roots, rules, needs, contradictions and utopias.

Worlds that prove through multiple languages, capable of giving voice to emotions and perspectives united by a single common thread: the continuous and unstoppable search for expression. These are pieces that do not look for the easy refrain, that do not aspire to end up in the playlist, who do not chase numbers, but are charged with an urgency to react in the dark times we are experiencing. “I chose a temperate and soft language even in the dispute, even where there are to face the circumstances in a hard muzzle – he continues – I went into these paths. Today spirituality is vilified by a speculative criterion that prevents us from acquiring the full mastery of the ego. With this work, 19 songs, invitation to change: that everyone draws their own track by making a wide range between prevailing static “. But can art, and in general music, really still push to improve? Is there “an hour zero” from which to start again? “I see a puller of my worrying impersonator – he admits – but it is also true that I am always of the idea that you have to draw on someone. I chose my reference points many years ago: Bob Dylan, Frank Zappa, Janis Joplin, Nina Simone. They used music as a trench. These new songs represent my mood. We have to be more united, be more allied when we occupy a square. Love must be the ultimate goal. Music can help, but there must be no divisions: ‘That makes punk, that does metal, that makes rap’. We are a big family“.

Then he widens his gaze, with calmness, but giving strength to the words that arrive unequivocally: “Artists are all a little if we want it, but to really be really, you have to pierce the architectural barriers that the records themselves have created. Today’s guys risk being transformed into puppets. I dressed as a puppet so as not to be exploited, so as not to become it“. Then the lunge:“ We have to calm the records and the publishers who want to make us become numbers. Renato did it not to become it, we must be administrators of ourselves. ” In the summer of the Oasis reunion, there was another reunion that made Italian music dream: that between Loredana Bertè and Renato Zero. The Queen of Rock and the King of the Sorcini have surprised the respective war ridians. It happened this summer when During a concert of the voice of “I am not a lady” in La Spezia, in the square, Zero went on stage and they embraced each other. “It was an urgent hug, necessary. I found Loredana calm and reflective. I also grew. I, she and Mimì (my Martini, ed) we have passed many together. In Mimì they did terrible things. It was important to find us“, explains.

Just over a year after his latest live adventure, Zero prepares to embrace his audience live with “Orazero” on tour. The new tour will take him around from January 2026, with 23 dates announced for the country. It starts on January 24 from Rome, his city, with a chain of six appointments that will see him live on the stage of the Palazzo dello Sport, to continue then In Florence (Nelson Mandela Forum), Turin (Inalpi Arena), Mantua (Palaunical), Conegliano (Prealpi San Biagio Arena), Bologna (Unipol Arena), Pesaro (Vitrifrigo Arena), Eboli (Palasele), Bari (Palaflorio) and Messina (Palacascifina).