There are records that are not limited to being listened to, but ask to be inhabited. “SIX”the new album by Alice Caronna released on April 21st, it is exactly this: an intimate and courageous journey between pop, songwriting and soul that transforms a personal story into a universal reflection on life. Anticipated by singles mirrored as Piazza Navona And I deserve everythingthe Roman singer-songwriter's second long-distance work explores the chronology of a relationship to open up to a greater awareness: that the end does not exist if what ends continues to transform within us.
We had a chat with her to get into the depths of this splendid emotional manifesto.
In “SEI” the idea of the end is overturned: first of all, when does a story really end? And in how many ways can it be transformed within us?
It depends from story to story. In my specific case, it ended due to unresolved difficulties and unaccepted changes, but from the moment the memory remained safe and was not “dirty” inside me, I can say that it is a story that still feels very alive, even if it continues to transform.
You talked about love as something that survives people: did this vision free you or, in some moments, made it more difficult to let go?
It is precisely because I had difficulty letting go that I had to find a way to accept this “end”. I accepted it feeling that it wasn't over inside me and, instead of repressing the feeling of difficulty, I let it follow its path.
The record goes through a relationship but then expands towards something more universal: was there a precise moment in which you understood that you were no longer telling “a story”, but “life”?
The moment I realized it was when the record was already finished. I looked at the tracks, I listened to the songs and I realized that the story I was talking about had taught me a lesson that went far beyond the relationship: it taught me to accept the things we can't control.
In a time when everything is rapid, even interest, “SEI” seems to ask us to pause in our emotions: tell us about your relationship with deep listening?
Without depth there is no truth, there is no life. Emotions don't scare me: they are the thing we should be most proud of, because they remind us that we are here, we are alive and grateful to be able to feel them.
“Ricordati di te” is one of the few songs that you say you wrote for yourself: how difficult is it, as an artist and as a person, not to lose yourself when experiencing love?
Starting from the premise that losing yourself when you fall in love is a very beautiful thing because, linking to the previous answer, it makes us feel excited and therefore alive, staying clear and remembering that, whatever happens, we are always there with us (and not others) is important and encouraging.
The tension between control and abandonment is always constant: does writing help you understand more or does it only serve to stop some ideas and sensations?
Writing is both. It certainly serves to express what I feel and helps me to free myself momentarily, and therefore to calm down or relax; but often, after writing a song or any thought, I only realize what was inside me after reading it.
If you had to describe “SEI” not as an album but as an environment, what would it be?
The first image that came to mind after reading this question is a mother's belly. I don't know why, honestly, but it came to mind and so I'm writing it without thinking too much.
At the end of the album, with “Ancora”, love becomes something that transcends everything: is it a conquest that one achieves or an awareness that one discovers that one has always had?
“Anchor” is hope, it is melancholy, it is sadness and happiness, it is acceptance, awareness, conquest: it is all that there has been, is and will be.
Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
