The video clip of Look At Usthe single from the new EP by Golden Years Fruits and Vegetablesavailable from Friday 12 June on all major streaming platforms and in physical format (CD) for Columbia Records / Sony Music Italia. The disc is also out in a bundle that combines the CD's Fruits and Vegetables and the previous blue LP Off the menu.
The Roman producer is behind the project Pietro Parolettiin art Golden Yearsamong the most interesting names on the new Italian scene. The video for Look At Us, directed under the creative direction of Danilo Bubani with Marco Santi and Isa Ki Bon, builds a visual story on diversity and failed inclusion, with atmospheres that look to the cinema of Clint Eastwood not as an aesthetic quote but as a feeling: the dust, the faces, the silent tensions of a community on the edge of an invisible border, the one between those who are recognized immediately and those who have to be accepted every day.
In the video, people with ordinary faces and figures with enormous papier-mâché masks coexist. Not monstrous creatures or caricatures, but fragile and cumbersome presences, where the mask becomes a direct narrative device.
Golden Years after Fuori Menù and Sanremo with Fulminacci
The new job comes later Off the menuthe producer album that had brought together collaborations and different visions of the Italian scene, and after participating in the Sanremo Festival alongside Thunderbolts with Stupid Luck. With Fruit and Vegetables, Golden Years shifts the focus of the project entirely onto the production, sound and emotional construction of the songs.
Fruit and Vegetables: six tracks between samples and cinematic atmospheres
The EP collects six tracks that move between beats, samples and cinematic atmospheres, with manipulated samples, soft grooves, guitars, distortions and vocal fragments that become textures. The only external presence is that of PaulaFrench-Portuguese singer who appears in Desarrumandothe project's only vocal incursion and a sign of an imagination that also looks beyond the Italian borders.
We start with Look At Usbuilt in two movements, from a soft first part towards distortions, synths and guitars, with the vocal sample pitched as an emotional thread. Lawrence recovers a beat that has been dormant for years and transforms it into a spontaneous and immediate track. After Desarrumando, in Hold Me Tight it is the vocal sample that guides the composition, until the entrance of a gospel choir that opens the breath of the song. Meltemi takes its name from the Mediterranean wind and restores lightness and slow movement. Closes Precious Stonesthe most narrative moment of the album: a voice reads extracts from an old magazine dedicated to precious stones, transforming archive material into a musical element.
More than a collection of tracks, Fruits and Vegetables it is a sequence of environments: each song opens a different room, with a continuity made of lightness. A work that confirms the producer's ability to build recognizable worlds even outside the traditional song form, between electronics, sampling and contemporary pop sensitivity.
