The summer of The Bluebeaters starts again in the name of sharing. With the new Carry Home Tourthe historic band returns to the Italian stages accompanied, stage after stage, by friends and travel companions who they met on their artistic journey, transforming each concert into a unique and unrepeatable experience.
Wednesday 8 July The Bluebeaters will take the stage at Buskers Festival Of San Vincenzo (Livorno) with two exceptional guests Bunna and Syl. A free entry evening that promises rhythm, emotions and all the energy of one of the most loved groups on the Italian ska and reggae scene.
While waiting for the new album, scheduled for autumn, we met the band to talk about this new chapter, the meaning of Carry Homeof the importance of collaborations and of a repertoire that, for over thirty years, has continued to make entire generations of audiences dance and sing. Here's what they told us.
Carry Home Tour arrives at a time of great turmoil for the band. What was the idea that gave birth to this project?
The Tour was changed during the race due to the unavailability of Pat Cosmo who was on tour with Casino Royale. Then we simply returned in a slightly different form with different guests on vocals, a couple for each date. A condition that leads us to experiment with a different approach compared to the original lineup with which we made the last two albums.
The title “Carry Home” suggests something very personal. What would you like the audience to take home after each concert?
“Taking home” is what usually always happens at a concert, you arrive with expectations and go home with different sensations than what you thought. We want the audience to take home a bit of lightness and joy after dancing and singing with us. Our concert is a party and the audience should be able to distract themselves from their lives if it doesn't work or add something extra if everything goes well. We, with this new formula, bring home new things, new relationships and balances between us.
In San Vincenzo (Livorno) you will share the stage with Bunna and Syl. What do these artists represent for you?
Bunna has always been part of the Bluebeaters family so when he comes to visit us we are very happy. He's a phenomenon and playing with him every time is a super rewarding experience. We love each other very much for everything we have done together and for having the same attitude on stage. Syl is a very good singer with whom we have already done some dates on this Tour and who moves us onto other sounds. A female singer manages to change our attitude on stage by creating a different magic. We are grateful to her for making herself available.
The tour ideally resumes the path begun with “Extra Trax”. How important are collaborations in your story?
Yes. Extra Trax is an album that recovers many collaborations scattered on the web, almost never ended up on record and where there are things that are very different from each other, even if the matrix is our sound. They are all collaborations born out of interest between us and our guests, also to get out of line with our more classic genre.
You are working on the new album due out in the autumn. What can we expect?
It will be a very different album from the previous ones. Already “Mantra” and “Ora Lo sai”, the first two singles that came out last year, have a different sound, a beat that goes beyond the more classic sound of The Bluebeaters and takes us between the '60s and the '80s, it's as if we were riding another wave, a new wave of our sound with lyrics in Italian all written by Pat Cosmo. It will be an expansion of our borders.
After over thirty years of career, what continues to light the spark of The Bluebeaters?
The Bluebeaters were born above all from a deep friendship and the same musical tastes. We are people who have been playing together for over 30 years, we have a body of songs that we now make almost with our eyes closed but there is always something new on the horizon to experiment with and at the moment we have this mood. After all, it's as if we were an always open project, ready to come up with new ideas, always based on a sound that we have adjusted, smoothed and refined over the last 32 years. We are always here until we get tired of being on stage and in the studio together.
Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
