Something upside down necessarily must have happened among the alkaline delusions of omnipotence of Father, Son and Spirit of the FSK satellite and the new Chiello of Scarabocchi. Something must necessarily trigger the humility bathroom necessary to reset everything, even at the cost of giving up a project that, numbers in hand, ground platinum. But that in Rocco Model, born in Venosa (Potenza) on April 9, '99, all this history of Trap soon began to be really too tight.
By now the oxygenated -haired boy and the butterfly tattooed on the cheek can be said to be the soloist since 2021, but something in the new album has changed radically also compared to the previous gear apple. Instead of locking up in a mental hermitage, even far from family and friends, in the cathartic act of writing, this time he decided to share his thoughts and ideas with musicians who are also a small new family. Scarabocchi It is as always a night, melancholy, imbued with a symbolist dreamlike album that seems almost to come from that period between the end of the 19th century and the early 1900s in which for the first time there was talk of subconscious and “God is dead”.
Scarabocchi It is a dopamine swing of ups and dops, of euphoric moments and potential holes where the spleen reaches the level of “one of these days I will kill myself”. As in dreams, however, everything in the end is not really real and sooner or later you awaken with many small clues to a journey that could be significant, or not. Scarabocchi, in fact.
Have you decided the individuals and when to get them out?
Yes, almost everyone. I definitely chosen Pirate. Close friends It was not scheduled as a single but, since pirates I did not send it to the radio, my recorder also recommended me Close friends. I definitely wanted to let out Piratein fact we also made the video. It represents a lot of the disc and its concept. Maybe it will not be a piece suitable for the radio circuit, but we wanted to push it properly.
How come Pirate is so similar to the concept of Scarabocchi?
Because there is always that theme of recognizing yourself through one's past. And in any case try to remain innocent and children, have a childish vision despite adult life in front of the constant challenges to overcome. By force of things it makes us grow. But I try not to do as adults do, who try to control their lives, to organize it to the millimeter. I don't like it, I'm a lover of the case.
Yet in Close friends You say that “the road behind me / is going to pieces / I just have to go on”. It is difficult to anchor yourself to the Child Chiello, if the past goes into pieces.
It is a metaphor to say that the past is something now far from us, that you cannot control, that it is past. So we just have to live the present and think about the future. I'm simply staying in the present.
Scarabocchi However, it is a word that gives things of little value. That past is now distant in which the trio of FSK self -self -made “Father, Son and Spirit”.
Yes, Scarabocchi It almost looks like a bad word. I feel very far from Trap, from physical and material things. I am much closer to what I do, to the cantam and the most introspective music. By force of things I simply changed, I grew up a little. We are all constantly changing, right?
The disc is a carousel of emotions. In the first piece you speak of wanting to kill you, in the second instead a swing is all cheerful to Fred Buscaglione.
Because in the end life itself is a rollercoaster of emotions. High and low continuous as Schopenhauer explained with the metaphor of the pendulum: it oscillates from boredom to sadness passing through a fleeting moment of happiness. I believe in these words. My moments of fleeting happiness are when I am with my friends, when I create and we are in the studio. My team is a family. And then there is the live, because the people I bring to the studio are then the same as I bring me on the stage. Fausto Cigarini to the violins and the bass, Matteo Pigoni on the guitar, Giulia Formica on drums. Then there is Tommaso who does not follow me in live but who played all the guitars on the disc and even wrote four -handed songs. My approach has changed a bit compared to previous discs. I shared much more: before I remained closed at home for months and months. I came out just to shop. I wrote alone for months without feeling anyone or confronting someone, not even my family. Instead now many texts and ideas were born in my house but then I also confronted myself with other people.
Do you really get out of shopping?
Yes, I had periods a little like that. I didn't feel at all social. I wanted to unplug. But I would do it again and I think I will do it again. Sometimes I do it and I think it is good for me when I have to write again. It is a very personal thing.
Well, the first words of the album are literally “one of these days I will kill myself / I would like you to find myself / naked above the parquet”. It seems to me a not only very personal beginning, but also of impact.
He had definitely wanted. It was my intention to move something in the listener, so from the beginning. As if it were a warning: this record is so, if you want to listen to listen to it. If not, don't do it.
Juice Wrld, Nirvana, XXXTTACION, Lil Peep, Joy Division: all artists you love and who share more or less the same tragic end. Coincidences?
Yes, I had also made a song called All my idols are dead. But in general I am fascinated by death, as I am from life. Death is truly the only certain thing about life and it will surely arrive. I first want to enjoy every possible facet of my existence, even the bad ones. At this precise moment I feel quite well, it will also be spring. The release of the disc is also very liberating. I have been working for years and it's nice to see it finished, finally. I will celebrate with my friends.
Wasn't the transition from FSK to songwriter automatic? Did you want a study of technique and history of music?
It was quite natural. I didn't start with the trap. My first ep is called I will not find a treasure And I did it before the FSK project. It was an introspective album. Even as he came out The test of the cook I immediately afterwards let out Salted water. So it was never a clear transition. I've always been passionate about both worlds. Obviously first the trap, then a time came when I could not express myself more well with the trap. I needed a guitar. I bought an acoustic Gibson and started playing it. Now I also have electric ones. Then, of course, I also listened to a lot of new music, I studied. But I have always done it naturally.
However, courageous choice: with Sapobully and Taxi B you had put on a successful project.
Very true. But the success is relative. For me it can be and for you no. And the numbers don't count a cock. It is not that one thing is beautiful only because he listens to her a bang of people. When I heard that that thing no longer gave me anything, I simply done anything else. I didn't think about courage or consequences. I don't even remember when it happened. With the others of FSK, however I am a friend, see you often. However, I had the fear sometimes that my move music does not happen. There was a lot of expectation around me, on me. I was afraid to disappoint people care, even my parents themselves. Fortunately now I understand. That period was not beautiful because I almost felt I lost my being. Now I'm aware: I don't want to get to more people than I have now. I would like, but I'm grateful immensely for the fans I have now. My music is for a few, I understood it. And I almost go proud of it.
