Marco Giudici, known and appreciated in the Italian independent circuit for being the bassist of Adele Altro (Any Other), embarked on his first solo project, Halfalib, in 2017, fusing a personal form of art-pop-soul, electro-jazz and some psychedelic streaks. Three years later the decision to publish under his own name “Stupide cose di enormous importance”, an album in which he remained within the precincts of a certain bedroom jazz-pop, published by 42 Records, as well as the EP two years later, “Io cerca per semper un crossroads safe”, shared with Adele Altro and Alessandro Cau. In the meantime Marco has taken care of important collaborations, both as a musician and as a producer: Francesco Di Bella, Fine Before You Came, Generic Animal, many contacts that have allowed him to make the new chapter of his artistic journey, which embraces a more canonically singer-songwriter style, choral and participatory.
The production, the arrangements and in some cases also the writing of “Tvarsi soli all'impresa” are the result of the renewed collaboration with Adele Altro, who also adds her voice to the already well-known “Un bivio safe”. The drums are by Alessandro Cau and Nicholas Remondino, Federico Fenu played the trombone, Fausto Cigarini the viola and the violin, the choirs are by Marta Del Grandi, Cecilia Grandi, Marco Fracasia and Giulio Stermieri, as well as the aforementioned Adele, Alessandro and Nicholas. Marco Giudici, in addition to being the author of lyrics and music, has played acoustic and electric guitars, bass, piano, tubular bells, celesta, dulcitone and synthesizers.
“Finding yourself alone suddenly” is a tenuous album, with songs that are often introduced only by voice and guitar, and then progressively filled with other elements. We look for the essential, the simplicity, the poetry, a violin capable of moving (“A normal thing”), but Marco does not give up on focusing on “fuller”, more “radiophonic” moments, as in the case of the indie passage of “Trovarsi soli”. A songwriting fragile and engaging, for seven sung tracks plus two instrumentals, among which “In deep eyes” closes the work with its soft lunar atmospheres.
01/12/2025
Antonio Santini for SANREMO.FM
