Available the video clip of “Blue Ice“, Song by the Abruzzo artist Lorenzo Dipas – “songwriter of the last” – extracted from the album “Art Café”, released on March 21 for high records. The video clip was entirely shot during the release party of the album held in L'Aquila on March 28 at the MUSPAC (Contemporary Art Museum).
The choice of a live video is consistent with the sense of community that occurs in the production of the singer -songwriter: “Blue Ice“, The last piece of the album is opposed to the title track” Art Café “which opens the album but at the same time binds there: in the first song the protagonists toast in an imaginary tavern, in the last in a sort of paradise that hopes they can somehow welcome after their existential vicissitudes.
“Therefore, what better opportunity to make the sense of belonging to this 'category' of people if not with a live where friends and audiences sing having fun and sharing the same words? At the bottom a concert is only an expressive act, a ritual. Music, rhythm and movement make everyone forget for an hour their problems and difficulties giving lightness and smiles, with a glass in hand, maybe a fresh blue ice!” – Lorenzo Dipas.
All bitter reflections emerged in the album on the various figures (the barman, the actor, the drunks etc.) who have like common denominator the stereotype of the “loser”in “Blue Ice” they are overturned and took around almost: it must be there A paradise for them toocompared to passed off socks. They, who have never understood how to live, are also those who would never want to die “Having lived in half”: the last sentence of the disc – “It would be nice huh?” – that it existed – is a sad phrase called with the smile of those who play with the death through the lightness of a child: the clinging to the inner child, in reality, represents the cross and delight of that “we” who occurs throughout everything “Art Café”.
Who is Lorenzo Dipas?
“To exorcize the disenchantment of life with the enchantment of broken things. This is what I do when you do evening or getting exhausted on Friday after my work as an engineer. I go home, I go to my trusted baretto and it is there that I find inspiration for my night songs: an irreverent baroque blended of songwriter, rock, folk and pop.
Lorenzo Dipas (Pseudonym of Lorenzo Di Pasquale) is a Teramo artist; He moved to L'Aquila in 2009, attends the university and after graduating in Engineering, he settles definitively in the city and builds his life there. Today, 16 years later, he defines himself by Aquila by adoption.
His first album, “The Last” (2019), is entirely made in L'Aquila and published by the “Lapop” record label of Piacenza: it is a period in which it performs throughout Central Italy by collecting dozens and dozens of lives, participations in Contest, openings in important artists.
After several years and after collaborating with artists and producers of the Roman scene to the subsequent songs, Lorenzo decides to change identity and leaves the name of art Amelia and becomes Lorenzo Dipas; With this renewed identity he realizes a new album and a comic project that accompanies his music.
In 2024/2025 the first singles (Art Café, balls, night, cats) came out) all set in the alleys and premises of his second city and accompanied by designs and comic strips published on social networks.
In March 2025, the publication of the entire album is scheduled, entitled Art Café (clear homage to his trusted bar): the album is a tribute to the city that has seen him grow, become an adult, assert himself as an artist and as a professional, where he lived his loves and his pains. The city takes the connotations of a 70s noir setting, with its picturesque and Falettian characters, where lives and dreams intertwine giving rise to the newspaper.
What interests him is to sing the disenchantment of the last: a singer -songwriter, an aspiring actor, a barman, speaking cats, are just some of the characters who cross their melancholy experiences between counters, tables and sidewalks during the provincial nights. Everyone so characteristic as to be imaginary. All at the same time incredibly real.
Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM