Gaia, an album to go under the surface

What happened to Gaia in recent weeks could be House History from communication school. If we had stopped in February, in Sanremo, perhaps few would have predicted that I call I call you He would have had this second life, becoming one of the most listened songs of this edition. Classic that confirms the unwritten rule of the Festival ranking, which counts as the graduation vote the day after the discussion of the thesis: zero.

Without going back to the story of the choreographer who becomes viral, because you already know, of this situation Gaia would say “if things have to go in one way it means that they will go in that way”. He says it practically everything, because he is a girl “destiny and energy”.

It is in a club in Milan to present Rosa dei Ventihis album number three. In recent months we have heard her voice a lot: Sex and samba First (“it is a piece that made me grow. A numerical success, yes, but the real gift was to make me accept all the parts of me, even the funniest ones”) and I call I call you After.

But now it's time to show that beyond the catchphrases, let's call them that, there is more. And he does it with this album, which he called Rosa dei Venti Because “I saw that symbol everywhere. Tattooed on some boys on the subway, in the pendants of the people I met on the street. Then a friend who has not felt for ten years sent me a letter and that symbol was also there, printed on paper ». We told you it's a fatalist. “If you think about it, it can also have another meaning, they are in the flower of the twenty years.”

The common thread of this project are the South American sounds, Brazil (country of origin of a part of the family), the melody, but compared to Almafrom 2021, Rosa dei Venti It sounds more mature, if we want safe. “Alma It is a disc born during Covid, from “session”. Here I did the opposite work, we created different dynamics. It is a very rhythmic album ».

Staying in the great cauldron of pop, Gaia ranges from reggae to drum and bass to reggaeton at baile funk. But inside Rosa dei Venti There is also room for a few moments of introspection. It is clear from the beginning, in theIntroin which the voices of his family members who, say, give advice on life are heard. Circle that closes in the last track, in which this time it is his mother who tells her “that even if every now and then we are physically distant, what matters is to be close in the spirit».

A record in which there are the twenty years of Gaia, “there are songs that tell my having fun with my friends, on which to dance, and who make sense of existing as much as Scar», Probably the most intimate moment of the album. “I pass from telling one emotion to another without thinking too much. It is really a job that I did to accept all the parts of myself ».

Gaia. Photo: Mario Perna

But this is also an album in which Gaia tries to tell each other in addition to radio hits. If you say “you just catch some catchphones” she will reply very safely that it is a “superficial” comment, but “in the sense that if you say it you are only on the surface. I don't write the songs only for the summer, I also make songs for people who maybe want to go a little more at the bottom, come to a concert, try a different experience. But if you just want to listen to a song on the radio it is fine even like that, imagine ». As if, after years, he had finally embraced his nature as a girl who is pop and who can do it while having fun: «I am a pop Girlie! »He says laughing.

The therapeutic effect of Sex and samba? “Truly! It is a song that has done a lot for me. At the beginning we received a little online hating, criticism, and instead do you know what? He helped me to accept me more. He made me live one of the funniest and most transformative summers of my life ».

He began that he was 16 years old, now he has 27. He grew up between records, concerts, (a lot of television, comments and judgments. In the title track sings of «mental disorders hiding with false smiles». How do you keep balance? “I try to talk a lot with the people close to me. The warnings that I am starting to hear signs that maybe something is wrong, I participate who is close to me. And I take care of me, with therapy, with breathing ».

And of difficult moments he also speaks in Scarswe said, a penultimate song of the album: «The last three years have been full of inner research necessary, I came from a time when I was no longer taking care of myself, of my health. It is a song written in no time, truly a flow of consciousness ». As he plays him at the showcase he is moved: «In this passage I talk about some things that I had never talked about, which I hid in the creative process because I hid from myself. This time I don't want to keep anything anymore, I don't want to get sick into it ».

On the disc there are Capoplaza, Guè, Lorenzza, but there is also Toquinho on a song that already sounds like a classic. It is titled Wind and closes the disc. «What an incredible gift did you give me. We sent it to him and very little later he postponed him with his guitars and his voice. I am grateful ». And who knows, he could become his neighbor. “How do I see myself in ten years? I would like to be in Brazil, have my vegetable garden, surrounded by trees, making music saming the sounds of nature ». That South American madness.

Cover and tracklist:

Beijo (intro)
Blue smoke
Addicted (feat. Guè)
I call I call you
Rosa dei Venti
Marathon
You trusted (feat. Capo Plaza)
Bulletproof
Twin Flames
Moon Veleno
RJ (feat. Lorenzza)
Scar
Wind (feat. Toquinho)