In a world of references, it is nice to get disorienting by Giulia Impache – Rockon.it

Article by Marzia Picciano | Photo of Katarina DzolicAt the end of the interview that we do an hour before live at the Studio Iscian Of Milan last Saturday 25 January, Giulia ImpacheTorinese artist who gave us one of the most interesting experimental electronic records of the last few months, tells us almost escaping that she does not consider herself so good with words, while with the sounds and music yes, as if to apologize for a gaffe non -existent.

Yet the words and names are elements that she lives and handles with the determination of a poet. Starting from his surname, “fruit” of an error of recording the great -grandparents to the Argentine registry and held by her as a symbol of the free interpretation that you want to give, to the name of the disc, In: title, In fact, a game of words that explains a lot of the spirit of the same.

Few times I had the impression of finding myself in front of an artist, so young, with so much awareness of the type of music he realizes and what he wants to express or simply make happen in the listener.

In half an hour of chat Giulia Impache explained to me very clearly what the sense of precisely In: Titlewhich brought her to a unanimous consensus on what it means to make music in a certain way today.

The impache could go, they would say today, under the label of “contemporary” “electronics” or again Bjork Italian – “In Italy if there is a singer woman who makes electronic music, it is certainly the same as Bjork“I ironizes her – but the truth is that what this work continues in ten songs has little catalogable. Those of Giulia are great movements of arms, bodies and voices that reverberate like underwater and then in the air, singing with ancestral truths, start from the hips and then come to the sky, as Ozpetek in diamonds also says, because the women eventually They look up there, towards what you can't see.

Giulia Impache sings and sounds a lot of himself, of her inner world, but it is a turnkey package for the listener to know the impenetrable. A free interpretation.

“Yes, in the sense that I do not like being caged or being in the structures, consequently I don't like to create too delineated boundaries even for those who listen. Then I arrive from painting” Giulia Impache It was born professionally from a path of art and art therapy. “So I come from this world of palettes of various colors, and in informal art, in which basically everyone can see what is for him. C and a little this return“. And therefore music therapy.

But how did a piece like eyes come about for example?

“Certainly my desire, the success of writing the first pieces in my name matches with my path also of studies, and then of art and music therapy practice. I am actually an art therapist. And surely this was very useful for me on the judgment. In the sense, music therapy has worked so much on the process and not only on the end, and works a lot on the self -rescue and also accept their limits. This thing here, both on me, but also putting it into practice on patients unlocked this sense of closure in me that I had, to say: no, I don't write, I don't do. I said, I clearly need my expression channel. And then I let it flow“.”

What does it mean to accept your limits?

“They are very, very self -criticism, perfectionist. Anxious. And therefore as a singer, I have been studying for many years, I have always paid a lot of attention to the intonation. I listened to the recording, right? Instead, with my voice, at the music therapy level, I learned to accept myself every day. Every day the rumor will be different, it can never be fit every day. Today, for example, I feel that viruses are taking possession of me. And however it means that tonight who will listen to my voice, will have a pasta a little dirty“.” (Spoiler: we have not noticed it). For Giulia this is the crucial point: to accept itself in this sense, do not always expect the perfection that is not actually not possible, it is not possible, even if one always hopes for it and thinks it.

That today the imperfection in recording, in execution, is what actually seems to be like the artist's sacred grail. The last step of the research of authenticity.

“Yes, but I also have friends and technicians who told me are singers who really prefer the voice that comes out of the mobile phone, even because perhaps at that moment there was a situation in which the voice was more communicative. Instead when you go to the recording studio you know that you have an hour to record and then you lose everything … I don't want to be biased, but the song is also very psychological, human, so there is the day you are not fit, And maybe you're obliged to record. Instead, the imperfection of sound must also be accepted. Something that however returns to this album because there are many ideas, even glimm, distorted, therefore a variety of possibilities that sound may have“.

Increases the complexity of the work. Also the title?

“I found that this record was very serious, it took very seriously, because they are themes to me dear. However there are personal themes, and it was very difficult to find a name throughout this path. So I wanted a bit to play on how I name it. And then from coming, precisely from contemporary art, very often there are these “without title” paintings that often also annoy those who read it. And then I said, I can't call it without title. But in-tutor“.

And in this way also trying to help those who listen to understand, know, interpret.

“I do not complain to those who write without title, but on the other it is always very important for me to keep in mind that the more difficult things, the more (as an artist ed) you must try to meet those who do not have the opportunity to be able to Codify those things. So surely to name a name to things, approach them who approaches each other. Mine was just a reference to this aspect of the art and the fact that I told me that I wanted to take inspiration, but don't bother. Do not create hatred. Because this album, I realize that it is a complex particular… “

But it is evident that it is difficult for such a record – don't disturb.

“Take personal themes. This album certainly arises from my need, my need to be able to communicate outside. And also by addressing themes that sometimes are a bit difficult to deal with. There is a song, what it is, basically speaks of panic attacks, anxiety brought by being misunderstood. They are difficult to deal with because they underline a weakness, and we are in a world where you never have to show you weak, fragile, but you must always be in hype, everything must go well. So there is this need to communicate and also find people who perhaps live the same situation, however, in fact, always leaving them the opportunity to give the interpretation of their exact situation. Not mine ”.

For Giulia Impache it is a question of giving voice to its real, past necessity.

It was a psychological music therapy process “And I needed to write this thing“. We are not wrong in thinking about In: Title Like a great maieutic work. “My psychologist makes me: write letters. When I had a working problem that I could not leave, he said to me: do this, since you will finish in June and then you will resume in September, write a nice letter in February, write how you feel and how it makes you feel this situation and then You re -read it around August, to remember that you will not have to return to that situation. And instead I wrote (ìm) Lookin (for) Life which is a song of this album! “

A letter written in Italian, in English, in a great movement of words sound and languages.

“I consider this disc a training album, in the sense it is a point of arrival, but it is a starting point for other things. And even different languages ​​lead precisely to this, an experiment over time. I am very embarrassed to try to write in Italian. It is true that it seems more difficult, that is, in my opinion it is yes, that is, in the sense because they judge it immediately if you have problems of intonation, it feels necessarily. Instead, then for some songs I really had the push to do it. For example, “what is” the most personal I really felt was born in Italian, that is, I felt it that it was supposed to be in Italian. And then there is obviously this game of universality, in the sense that it is a record that does not necessarily have to be Italian “. Giulia impache's work has an incredible, revolutionary value, if you think about it. It does not aspire to be anything particular, except in the minds of those who listen to it.

And while we all seek the reference, the reference, here In: Title aims to sweep them all, disorienting us.

“I know that it is not possible to actually create something new, not in 2025, where there is even artificial intelligence, but since I am a little, I try a bit of going against the current, differentiating myself. We are used to being bombed by what we must like, of course, but if they bombed with more? What country would we be, if we had the noise on the radio that passes every day? “

Nice question. Maybe a little less in search of indicators and references, not very fearful of interpreting? Like what is the interpretation of a piece like Sailornot a love song for Giulia. “The song is actually dedicated to my travel companions, Jacopo Acquafresca And Andrea Marazzithey don't know it because many seems to be a song dedicated to a love in reality. There is this similarity with sailors: how did you do that a ship that can work? There are all a series of people who do not make it sink, and therefore starts from them, from Jacopo and Andrea and widens to all the staff who works with me “ (Here refers to photographers, stylists, producers, etc.). “Behind a musician there is a world that works, and alone would sink“.

But which is always left to the listener's free interpretative choice (the undersigned had thought of Sailor Moon, but my TV did not broadcast, in fact, Noise). And and the one to which Giulia points. What hopes for its audience, in concerts, face.

“That gets carried away by sound travel. There are a lot of stimuli during the live, it does not differ a lot from the disc“Apart from being at least in the trio. “I can also make pieces alone, but it is another very important theme for me to emphasize that music is beautiful because it is played together, which is a collective concept“.

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