A few months after the release of his latest record project “Sammy, Cabiria, etc. etc.”, Jacopo èt He returns with the Deluxe version, enriched by new songs that confirm his intense writing and without filters.
Between melancholy and lightness, memory and present, the Emilian artist continues to intertwine music and poetry, demonstrating how much the songwriter can still tell our time.
With him we talked about inspirations, roots and that need to take refuge, every now and then, in a happy place.
The title “Becalóva” is sweet and nostalgic at the same time. What does that “happy” place represent for you and how real or imaginary is?
That place represents quiet, serenity, the sun. It does it both because it is a real place of happy moments, and because it is an imaginary place I think about in the gray days of Milan. On the other hand, with great honesty, it is also this tiring road behind the dreams that I chose to follow that generates my need to repair myself in a place far from everything and everyone. I like to interval the chaos with light -heartedness, but if the light -heartedness becomes too much I miss chaos, there is little to do.
With “Sandwich cards” pay homage to your uncle and his book. How much is your family and roots in your music?
In this album above all there is a lot. Many lyrics of the songs started from a rediscovery of my uncle Attilio's poetry and I instead returned to digging even among the listeners of my dad, who grew up me on bread and jazz music and prog. Among other things, my dad played various guitars on the disc and my uncle practically all the bass.
You wrote for many successful artists. What does it push you today to tell you firsthand like Jacopo èt?
I had songs that seemed beautiful to me sung by me, which is something that does not happen to me often. All the songs I have written for other artists I would never sing them, I don't have the right voice, while these songs I think I enhance me on a voice. I really like to sing them, especially live.
Is there a song, among those you wrote for others, that today would you rewrite for yourself?
Absolutely not.
Your path combines classical music, hip hop, pop and songwriting. How do these souls keep together in your work?
Trying to make the music that I like and trying to make me as little problems as possible. Artistically it is certainly important to have a recognizable sound and a way of writing, but I don't even want to deprive myself of songs that make me feel good only to have a consistency of marble. There are many super -consistent artists at the course of the course, one a little more eclectic will not bother.
Speaking of the future: “Sammy, Cabiria, etc. etc.” Is it a point of arrival or just a new start for Jacopo èt?
It is exclusively a new beginning.
If I could choose only one song on the album to tell who you are today, what would it be and why?
Maybe I would choose “Via Ricordi”, it is a song that speaks of my house and I think it contains the essence of what is my sound and my way of writing.
If I could reinterpret a classic of Italian music in your way, what would it be?
I think I would throw myself on “Piazza Grande” by Dalla, which I did, among other things, recently in a transmission in Rai. The simple, but musically not trivial and poetic language, but still of the people, are the perfect ingredients of a great song for me.
Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
