With “Q. Can You See My Eyes?”i Fred Gets Lost they add a new piece to the path that will lead them to their debut album. Born in Lunigiana, the project led by Francesco Mazzali and Diego Bergantini mixes electronics, writing and sound research, building a story that takes shape one chapter at a time.
We spoke with them about the new single, its atmosphere and the band's next steps.
“D. Can You See My Eyes?” was released. and one of the most striking things is that sense of melancholy that remains even after the piece: when you closed it did you immediately realize that you had found something important?
Yes, in a way we noticed it quite early. Not because we thought we had written something special, but because the song continued to give us sensations even after we stopped playing it. It's a song that keeps asking questions rather than giving answers, and in the end it necessarily leaves you with the feeling that there's still something unfinished.
In “Can You See My Eyes?” we're talking about someone who continues to exist in the protagonist's head even when reality tells otherwise: in your opinion, is it more painful to lose a person or to lose the idea you had of them?
When you lose a person, sooner or later reality forces you to deal with the absence, but when you lose an image that you had built for yourself, however, you have to accept that something that seemed real perhaps never really existed: you find yourself questioning everything that ever was. It is a more ambiguous pain, because it also concerns a part of yourself.
Now that your first two singles have been released, does it feel strange to see people slowly entering your world or was it something you've been waiting for for a long time?
A bit of both. On the one hand we have been waiting for the moment to release this music for a long time, because we have been working on it for a long time. On the other hand, it still has a certain effect to see someone come into contact with songs that until recently existed only among us. It's a great feeling because every listener ends up finding meanings that perhaps we ourselves hadn't foreseen.
Listening to the new piece you almost have the sensation of being inside a nocturnal film: are there specific images, scenes or moments that you had in mind while you were creating it?
More than precise images, we had a sensation in mind: that of walking alone after understanding something we didn't want to understand. The song comes from that mental state in which you keep thinking about a person trying to distinguish what really happened from what you imagined.
An interesting thing about your project is that it doesn't seem to be in a hurry to explain itself immediately: today, in a period in which everything must be immediate, is this a deliberate choice?
We sought a balance so as not to be too explicit without being cryptic. We believe that some emotions need space and time to settle. We are more interested in creating an atmosphere that the listener can enter and find something personal, rather than explaining everything explicitly from the first listen. Understanding something immediately is satisfying for the first five seconds.
Being six also means having six different heads: in the studio or during rehearsals do you more often end up gassing each other or arguing to defend an idea?
In reality, it's just the two of us behind the writing and production work in the studio: Francesco and Diego. The band with our phenomenal musicians is to present live what for the two of us only existed in the studio. During the rehearsals there may be different ideas but it is part of the process, after all it is almost a work of reinterpretation.
What kind of summer will it be for Fred Gets Lost? Do you have new music, concerts or any surprises planned?
It will be a very active summer. We want to bring these songs live as much as possible. There will be other releases in the coming months and some news that we prefer not to reveal yet. We are at the beginning of the journey and the feeling is that our world is taking shape one piece at a time.
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Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
