Already available in all digital stores and in stores on the Epic Records / Sony Music Italy label, “Deserts” is the new album by Piero Pelù: a real concept album, which fits – as the second chapter – into the Trilogy of Discomfortwhich began in 2020 with the publication of the album “Fragile Boxers“.
“The time of rest that tinnitus forced me to take last year gave me the opportunity to stop and reflect, look inside myself and look at everything around me. I travelled, I read, I wrote, I compared myself with other artists. What I understood is what I tried to tell in this album.
The deserts that you will cross with me while listening to this album are deserts and desertifications to which we are unfortunately becoming accustomed, without being able to react as we should”.
an album and many deserts
In his new concept album Piero Pelù analyze the word “deserts” in all its possible meanings:
- The deserts caused by wars (“Drive them away“): “We must react with the culture of peace, because in war no one ever wins. We must return to being people among people”;
- The deserts caused by the climate crisis (“Deserts“);
- The emotional deserts (“Picasso“): “in this song I talk about myself as a child and teenager, who he confides in his family that he wants to make music and in front of him there is a wall, a world war within the home. I turned this lack of confidence into a constant commitment to music. That door in the face was inspiring for me. I always knew I was the anomaly within my family, but I'm happy to be that. In this song I tried to understand what the deserts of caresses have brought to my life”;
- The sentimental deserts (“Damn Heart” and “Elephant“);
- The deserts caused by hatred (“I sing“): “sWe are at the mercy of people without positive thinking. The duty of the artist, of those who have a voice, is to sing, to talk about everything we don't like in the world around us. Everyone is free to do what they feel, but I can't pretend not to see what's happening around me. In this passage I talk about a policy that fails to have the necessary weight to really help citizens”;
- The deserts created by social media “Everything and Immediately“);
- The deserts of our cities and suburbs (“BabyBang“);
- The deserts of pain (“Chaos“).
VIDEO INTERVIEW WITH PIERO PELù
“DESERTS”: THE TRACKLIST
- Doors
- Picasso
- Damn Heart
- Novichok
- Everything and Immediately
- My Name is Never Again (unplugged 25th anniversary)
- Elephant
- Baby Bang feat Caliber 35
- I sing
- Chaos
- Drive them away
- Deserts
Salways on the front line to support social, political and environmental battles, also for this new journey Piero Pelù chose to support EMERGENCYthe association founded by Gino Strada And Teresa Sarti with which he had already carried out various initiatives in the past beyond “My name is never again”, a manifesto of pacifism written together with Luciano Ligabue And Lorenzo Jovanotti.
INSTORE TOUR: THE DATES
- 8 June – BOLOGNA, Semm Music Store & More (7.00 pm)
- 10 June – FLORENCE, Feltrinelli in Piazza della Repubblica (6.00 pm)
- 12 June – NAPLES, Feltrinelli in Piazza dei Martiri (6.00 pm)
- 13 June – ROME, Discoteca Laziale (5.30 pm)
“deserts”: the cover
“The problem with tinnitus took me away from work, but it brought me closer to nature and that's where this cover was born, which is a shot I took in Florence while walking after a storm. It's a sky, yes, but reflected in a puddle.
'What's Under the Stars' I sing in 'Picasso'. Today there is me, Piero, the shadow of a man who is being reborn and who I decided to put in place of that of the man who was reflected in the original photo taken that day”.
PIERO PELù: TOUR DATES
- June 29, 2024 SPILIMBERGO (PN) Spilinand Music Festival, La Favorita Area
- 08 July 2024 GENOA Summershow 2024, Arena del Mare (Porto Antico Area)
- July 12, 2024 BERGAMO Nxt Station, Piazza degli Alpini
- July 26, 2024 CASTIGLIONE DEL LAGO (PG) Lacustica Festival, Medieval Fortress
- July 27, 2024 PORTO RECANATI (MC) Arena Beniamino Gigli
- 03 August 2024 BAIA DOMIZIA (CE) Arena dei Pini – Summer Festival
- 09 August 2024 ASIAGO (VI) Carli Square
- August 16, 2024 NOTO (SR) Staircase Of The Cathedral
- August 18, 2024 BAGHERIA (PA) Go Green Festival, Small Urban Park
- August 20, 2024 ROCCELLA JONICA (RC) Roccella Summer Festival, Teatro Al Castello
- August 22, 2024 SAN PANCRAZIO SALENTINO (BR) San Pancrazio Festival, Events Forum
- August 24, 2024 VEROLI (FR) Tarantelliri Festival, Pala Coccia External Area
- September 13, 2024 CERNOBBIO (CO) Lake Sound Park, Former Riding Track
- November 4, 2024 FLORENCE VIPER THEATER
- November 5, 2024 FLORENCE VIPER THEATER
- November 11, 2024 MILAN GENERAL WAREHOUSES
- November 12, 2024 MILAN GENERAL WAREHOUSES
- November 17, 2024 TURIN HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR
- November 18, 2024 TURIN HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR
- November 24, 2024 PADUA HALL
- November 28, 2024 BOLOGNA ESTRAGON CLUB
- 01 December 2024 ROME LARGO VENUE
- 02 December 2024 ROME LARGO VENUE
- 07 December 2024 NAPLES HOUSE OF MUSIC
- December 14, 2024 MODUGNO (BA) DEMODE'