The new French Saints EP was released today, It may have no weightwhich will be presented live starting from November 20th in a club tour that will take the Piedmontese duo throughout Italy. The album contains six tracks inspired by 2000s rock, intimately inspired and designed to be played on stage.
«The title was born before the EP and the song itself, and explains a concept that we have been thinking about for some time and which concerns not only music, but a certain idea, shared by both, of life. Only later did we decide to attribute it to this work and to a particular song”, as Alessandro De Santis and Mario Francese say. «Each song, and therefore word and sound, is conceived freely, without imagining a goal or recipient. It could therefore remain suspended, like an echo. But there is something magical that happens when those sounds, those concepts, those images reach someone: if the songs are listened to, then they acquire a value, a weight, a relevance, transforming into something else. And that conditional at the beginning of the sentence becomes both a warning and a salvation: the difference is made, today and always, by people” (read our latest interview with the duo here).
Simplification, immediacy, connections. These are the key words that link all the songs It may have no weightwhich occur under the sign of a conditional: that «it becomes both a warning and a salvation: the difference, today and always, is made by people.” The French Saints conclude: «These songs are a well-aimed blow that cuts our breath and legs, brings us to our knees, makes us put our hands to our chest and leaves us begging in front of all of you. These songs ask for calm, kindness and respect, and like all music, they ask to be heard. Until the end”.
To accompany the release, director Massimo Coppola wrote and directed a short film, or rather, a Conversation that may have no weightwhich you can find below:
Coppola describes the project and the two artists like this: «Alessandro and Mario are tender, free, scared, powerful, joyful, intense; they play together, connected by a simple but sophisticated gravitational system. Close and distant and distant and close, the force that moves them – they are moved, in fact, seems to be independent of their will – is mysterious, we glimpse its shape in the silences between their notes, and in those silences, those spaces, it is sweet to float . I discovered this as we walked around, floating around the words together; a conversation in an essential set, in black and white, on a sofa between two plants, with two twenty-year-olds from the twenties. It occurred to us Between Two Ferns by Zach Galifianakis, although (I fear) we make much less laughs at him…”.
