On the cover of the record, the silhouette of Samuele Bersani becomes a nocturnal urban landscape. There are roofs, balconies, facades, symbols such as the clock of the Bologna station, tragically stopped at 10.25, other personal details, but what matters are the lights on inside the houses. “In a first version they were off, like those in my head until recently,” says the singer-songwriter. Welcome back. He chooses his 50th birthday to present “Cinema Samuele”, an album that comes seven years after the previous one. “I went through a private moment that made me impoverished. I wrote so many text messages for someone’s heart that I couldn’t even write the shopping list anymore, let alone a song. I was professionally turned off ».
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It goes around a bit, but in the end it hints that it was the end of a relationship that triggered the blackout. “I also wrote a piece like” En e Xanax “, I thought badly from … The only two En and Xanax I know are mine, together since 1966 … We all had a blow like this, a lightning that cuts every certainty. In the lyrics the darkness returns in many moments, the discomfort is there, but the cut of light under the door prevails ». The single “Harakiri” shows the return of light and the change of personal perspective emerges from “Your memory”, where Samuel’s pen makes the awareness of the present win over the pain of the past with a text that is a pearl of naturalness, so fluid as not to weigh the cages of the meter and to bring you in front of a friend who confesses.
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Troubled workmanship. Passed through a failure in Ginostra (“The musicians abandoned me after 24 hours: I was in tears in front of the instruments brought there on the back of a donkey”), one year in Milan and one in Parma to write the music, before returning to Bologna to finish the texts that tell of personal battles, of the “praise of universal love” of two girls who are so much alike that they are called “Le Abbagnale”, of that addiction to social media (“Vertical scrolling”) that has struck he too, of ecology and emotional distancing («but ‘Dystopians’ was born before the lockdown»). «I was not afraid of not being able to write anymore because it had already happened to me, but meeting people who asked me if I had stopped being a songwriter did not help me. I found myself piece by piece, I resumed eating and doing everyday things that I had lost, I recomposed myself like a mosaic ».
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His pen manages to pull out in a song more sentiment, emotion, fun, smile, lightness, than there is in the top 10 of any week. And to think that Daniele Ek, the founder of Spotify, said that artists can no longer think about releasing a record every 3-4 years. “That gentleman is not part of my company. I feel that there is a hunger for good things, stories and songs and there is less need for reggaeton, trap (even if I love rap, Psalm above all), or the shit of talent. However, there are some happy realities, for example a rookie like Fulminacci ».
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The lockdown left him “dazed” because a leg problem “blocked him on the third floor without a lift and with a cat”, gave a new perspective to a song like “Dystopians (I’m close to you)” born before the pandemic but almost prophetic in dealing with emotional distancing , and now prevents him “from playing live immediately”. Optimism prevails on the live and so here is the announcement of the theatrical tour that will start on April 18 from the Arcimboldi in Milan (27 Bari, 29 Catania, 3 May Bologna, 4 Rome, 7 Turin, 10 Florence).
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Icinema, Samuele’s passion “Since I was 12 when I saw Pasolini in the cineforums of Cattolica” or “when at 14 I ran away from home to visit Dario Argento”, it ended up in the title: “Once a girl complimented me by telling me that I wrote short sighted. And in fact, when I listen to other people’s music, I often do it with my eyes closed and images are projected onto the inside of my eyelids ». The direction of the film on this record? «It is not my aspiration. I would entrust it to the D’Innocenzo brothers: I empathized with their vision, they have a new language ».
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October 1, 2020 (change October 1, 2020 | 9:08 pm)
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