Available from May 17th on all digital platforms “Twenty minutes of freedom”debut EP by Emanuele PrestaSalento singer-songwriter based in Bologna, a concept EP entirely dedicated to freedom.
The artist, with six tracks, talks about what are for him the six facets of freedom: i memories (which make us free in some way, when we take refuge in them), the life (the greatest manifestation of freedom), i dreamsthe leakL'Love (because often dreaming, running away from ourselves and circumstances and loving someone or something cannot help but be synonymous with freedom) and theart (because where there is artistic expression there is also freedom). The EP lasts just twenty minutes and there is never an interruption, the songs are not only connected by a common thread but are also united by a continuous sound that starts with the first song and doesn't stop until the last second of the sixth track.
“I was looking for a common thread that could unite the songs and make them complementary, without doing it on purpose I saw that I had it right before my eyes. I've always been a fan of concept albums, I grew up with records like 'The dark side of the moon', 'Ok Computer' and 'Not to money, not to love, nor to heaven', it almost seems like it's all been there before written. Up until now I have only released singles, this is my first real work, I don't know if it is the album of my life but it is certainly the one of my artistic and personal maturity”– Emanuele Presta.
WHO IS EMANUELE PRESTA?
“My name is Emanuele Presta. I have the defect of thinking too much, when I don't think I'm writing a song, when I don't think and write, I sleep. I like to dwell on details, always look for the reason that moves things, go beyond surfaces, wander in my chaos and get lost in the little things. I define myself as a slob, but he has an advantage, that of knowing how to accompany what he writes with a guitar, this fortunately makes me a singer-songwriter, maybe even a good one. I come from Lecce, and like every Salento native I couldn't do without the sea, I often need to get intoxicated by the sound of the waves, then I go home to write songs”.
Emanuele Presta is a singer-songwriter from Salento, born in '94. His love for writing was born for fun, after seeing a video of Bob Marley playing “Redemption Song”, he decides to buy a guitar, his desire is to play it just like he did. After succeeding, he becomes meticulously passionate about composition, which slowly becomes a (positive) obsession. Pasolini said that if he were the last person on the face of the earth he would still make films, well, for Emanuele it's the same, he says he writes songs because essentially, he has to. There wasn't a moment in which he understood that he wanted to be an artist, simply, song after song, he realized that being empathetic and fragile is not a flawbut it is the most important thing there is. Shakespeare said: when one's soul is ready, things are also ready, in fact he waited until he was 26 to publish his first real song. With eight songs under his belt, Emanuele reaches almost 1.5 million plays on Spotify and many appreciations around Italy. In January 2024, “I want to die while drinking” was released, the single that precedes his first EP “Twenty minutes of freedom”, out in May, a concept album entirely dedicated to freedom.
Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM