Cesare Cremonini announced a turning point: a new album arriving in autumn and a different artistic direction, away from stadiums and oriented towards rock. He did it surprisingly in the days of CREMONINI LIVE26the tour that started from the Circus Maximus in Rome, declaring that these great summer concerts mark a full stop in his career.
The message, also entrusted to a long post on social media, is clear: “I close with sequins and open to rock'n'roll”. A counter-current choice, announced just as the numbers would push him in the opposite direction, with other sold out dates including the one in Milan.
Cremonini announces the new album: “I close with sequins and open to rock'n'roll”
The new album, said the artist, was born in the last few months and will be released in autumn. It will be a project designed for the size of the band and not for large spaces, and for this reason it will bring Cremonini to play in places other than stadiums. A coherent decision, in his words:
“For the next project I asked not to play in stadiums because they have nothing to do with what I'm about to do. I believe in coherence with what you do artistically and musically.”
In his speech Cremonini he broadened the discussion to the state of discography, criticizing the obsession with numbers and the overproduction of releases. He explains that he wants to focus on the album and the band with which he recorded it, rather than the size of the spaces. In the social post he speaks openly about a total change, imagining what he defines “happiest tour ever”and of a dream: that the most important tour of these years will not be in stadiums.
A choice of coherence after the stadiums
The announcement comes after a journey that the artist himself has retraced: from the first concerts in clubs and theaters to stadiums, passing through the symbolic stages of recent years, from Imola to the Circus Maximus, defined “a point of arrival of dreams”. A trajectory that today, in his intentions, closes to open another.
Among the elements of the turning point there is also a new instrument, the saxophone, which Cremonini he said he started studying in the last year and that it now accompanies him on stage, describing it as the starting point for songs he wouldn't have written before. He himself explains the meaning of all this:
“I would like to leave me with the memory of the people who come not so much and only for the show as it is grandiose, extraordinary and well cared for. I would like people to take me home as a soul, as a person with my sufferings, my joys, my personal challenges.”
CREMONINI LIVE26, the next dates
Meanwhile, the summer tour continues. After the two sold out evenings at the Circus Maximus, the Milan date at the SNAI La Maura Hippodrome (10 June) was also sold out. It then continues at the Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari, Music Park Arena in Imola (13 June) and at the Visarno Arena in Florence (17 June), for a total of six events on the Italian green fields. All the details are in our article dedicated to the tour and the lineup.
Photo by Erika Serio.
