Frankly she came back with Bitte Lebenthe new album released on April 17th, a record that we had already described in our review as a work that moves by accumulation, by images, by crossings. Not a definition, but a stratification.
And in the interview given to All Music Italia this trajectory becomes even clearer.
Why Bitte Leben, “please live” is not a slogan. It is almost a request that remains suspended, without imposing a single response.
“I address anyone”: a title that does not close but opens
“I'm reaching out to anyone who approaches this album,” he says Frankly. But immediately afterwards it both narrows and widens the field: the people close to us, the biographies encountered, those made up of obstacles which, however, once crossed, build identities.
And then herself. “It's also aimed at me.”
The word “leben” remains there, mobile, almost definitively untranslatable:
“It is an invitation to live life with all its difficulties, but which could also have different meanings. Everyone experiences it in their own way”.
A record that was born without hierarchies
What is striking is the way in which this album takes shape. Not as an individual gesture, but as a shared space.
“We treated the studio like a laboratory”.
A real laboratory, where the ego remains outside the door:
“The music should have won, not the fact that an idea was mine or someone else's”.
A year of work, continuous meetings, people who come in, sounds that settle. In the end, eleven tracks remain.
In conclusion, Bitte Leben it's right there: in trying to stay inside things without sugarcoating them. In the suburbs that do not become aesthetic, in the family that holds together belonging and distance, in the cities that do not provide answers but add possibilities. It is a record that does not close, does not systemise, does not simplify. It moves, crosses, remains open.
And in the interview this movement can be felt throughout: in the words, in the hesitations, in the changes of perspective that never seek an easy synthesis.
Then, in the end, an answer arrives that puts everything back on the ground.
If Bitte Leben if it were a food/drink what would it be?
Watch the interview.
Cover photo by Cosimo Buccolieri
