Veronica Marchi: “For me music is to be experienced in a strong way”
Next November 7 al Camploy Theater in Verona will be held “I would like to be a child again”a concert-event to celebrate 20 years of career of Veronica Marchi. To embellish the event, with the musical direction of Giada Ferrarinthe presence of some guests: Andrea Mirò, Ilaria Pastore, Cristiana Verardo, Naskà, Eva.
On stage with Veronica Marchi (acoustic guitar, piano, vocals) too Maddalena Fasoli, Laura Masotto, Federica Castro (strings, choirs), Andrea Faccioli (guitars, choirs), Nelide Bandello (drums, percussion, choirs), Nicola Panteghini (guitars), Will be Alessandrini (battery) e Gipo Gurrado (Bass).
The concert will also be an opportunity to listen to the songs of “White”the album just released seven years after “I’m not the only one”.
Tracklist:
1) And everything else will be life
2) Leah
3) 90s
4) Every little part of me
5) How we were
6) Down
7) Your most beautiful lies
8) And always find yourself
9) October 13th
10) It rains a lot
11) I loved you
We reached out by phone Veronica Marchi to ask her to present us her new album, “White”. Below is what the Veronese singer-songwriter told us about her latest recording.
Veronica, what have you done in the seven years between the release of the album “Non sono l’unica”, in 2018, and the new “Bianca”? What happened? Why such a long interval?
In reality, analyzing the past a little, it has already happened that some time has passed between one album and another and specifically these seven years have been full of work also dedicated to other artists because I opened a label, I started making productions, so I came out of myself a little as a singer-songwriter but not as an author, because I continued to write, so I moved on for a moment. Then there was life in between, there were many things and, another fundamental thing, is that in any case I am a person who needs time, so between “I’m not the only one” and this album some time has passed as I always need a bit of relaxation. Now was a good moment because a space was created for me, then also because I know, this year marks twenty years of my career, I feel that I have to do it, I absolutely have to do it, I listened to the urgency, it was the right time, I was ready to do it.
Were the songs on “Bianca” all composed in the same period or are there some older ones that were locked in the ‘classic’ drawer?
Yes, it’s always like this. Also in this album there are puzzles so they are songs that go well together, which in my vision had a good coexistence, also according to what then became the concept because it wasn’t originally this, I discovered it by listening to the songs that had this connection with “Bianca”, with the color white so it’s something that came later, but they are songs mainly written in these seven years, then there are a couple of songs actually linked to the past that didn’t find space, this thing often happens to me, of writing a song that then actually finds a home in an album years and years later, in the case of “Every little part of me” it is a song written in 2009. A lot of time has passed and now I am ready to sing it, perhaps when I wrote it I didn’t understand the song and now instead I was more ready to take it out.
Has “Every little part of me” been modified in any part or is it exactly as you wrote it over fifteen years ago?
The writing remained the same, identical, but the dress changed a few times. This is why I tell you that maybe the writing was right but I couldn’t fit into it well and now I can dress it in the right way, it’s strange but that’s how it is.
How did the collaborations of Andrea Mirò, Eva Pevarello and Cristiana Verardo present in “Bianca” arise?
My urgency this time was to collaborate in every sense, I have always worked with different musicians, previous works have always been done in bands so it was never just the fruit of my ideas, on the contrary. In this case I really wanted there to finally be other voices on the album, which had never happened. And as I always do, I go looking for people I love, people from the heart, precisely because it was a record that was released during the twenty years of my career. I wasn’t interested in poor featurings, that is, linked only to business or something of the sort, so I looked for people I feel close to, basically they are collaborations of the heart.
Eva, did you meet her at the time of X Factor, in 2016?
Oh sure! That’s where we met, or rather we recognized each other, in the sense that we really bonded, we became friends and that passage there, that sliding door which then brought us together even now, binds us so much.
All songs are sung in the first person. How urgent and painful was it to write to her and how cathartic too?
It’s a suffering that I also seek a little. There is certainly also some lightness in the pieces, however I face melancholy, I face pain as much as possible in the transformation phase. Talking about it is always therapeutic for me, but in this case I finally also talk about stories that have affected me and not necessarily just personal things, they affect me but in any case they are photographs of the outside world. It’s always a bit painful, but it’s necessary, even singing them in the studio was strong, I felt very bad physically the following days I did the sessions in the studio and then I stayed in bed for a couple of days. For me it’s like this, music is intense, even in light things, I experience it in a strong way.
Listening to the album you managed to communicate this intensity very well.
I’m 100% in on it, then this might cost me dearly but I’m on board.
Titles such as “Anni 90”, “How we were”, and also “I would like to go back to being a girl”, the name chosen for the concert that will be held in Verona to celebrate your twenty-year career, look towards the past. Is there just nostalgia hidden or is there also some fear for the future?
This is interesting. The title of the concert is inspired by a song on my first album so there is a connection to one of the songs that I am most fond of and which still represents me, but in reality I wrote that song at 15 years old when I still didn’t imagine that it would be complex to reach 40, complex is beautiful. When I say I would like to go back to being a child, in reality I am saying I would like to become myself, the main desire is not nostalgia or melancholy, that is, it exists because I am certainly a very romantic and very nostalgic person but my turning back is more about looking inside myself and trying to become me, this is the main question, it is an analysis, a work, a depth.
Would the little girl you were be proud of the woman you are?
Yes, yes (laughs) because I talk to myself about it. The main concept as far as I’m concerned is that I lost a lot of my childhood for what it should be, but with effort and sweat I make peace with this thing and now I try to enjoy life, feel good, be happy, and say no a lot because this too is very good for the soul.
In addition to the concert-party in Verona, are there any plans for a tour to present the songs of “Bianca” live?
Yes, now let’s give breathing space to this unique date so that we don’t repeat it. The musicians are the same, but then on the tour, which will approximately start in February, we will be in both acoustic and electric formation based on the locations we will visit.
In these few days, since the album was released, have you already had the opportunity to gather some impressions?
It’s still early to say, but the word that came up most often was welcome back. And I said, but I was here! It struck me because perhaps I had missed myself too, however the word I received most in the messages was welcome back, and it made me happy.
