The following interview, which tell me to be the first ever in Emma, would have had to take place in her bedroom. The artist born in Germany but Apulian in the blood was kept in the place, in the Milan South area, where his third album (but also his first two) took shape and became material.
The disc is called It was the beginning But in reality it is also the closure of a trilogy, which began in 2023, which has now led him to finally have an existential direction. For the first time Alessandro feels understood, accepted by a fanbase who does not make him the protagonist of his own concerts but participate, almost like all the others under the stage. I was there at the poplar in Trento, and with my eyes I was able to test the apparently chaotic cloud of glitches, grunge, electronic hardcore, emo and who knows what else that is actually the portrait of a generation.
In addition, this double nature between hikikomori, who produces, thinks and writes in the same place where he sleeps, and that of the artist on tour in close contact with his audience (young, as much as he) created a manicheism of constructive interference. A kind of balance between hermitage and crowded square where Ale found the fuel necessary to hunt out high emotional music, as well as energy.
In the end I was unable to interview Emma in her bedroom but by phone, because of various commitments and the usual cold that takes me in May. However, this did not prevent the four walls where his music was born from remaining one of the central topics of the chat.
Why is the bedroom so important for you?
Because entering my room is like entering my dimension above all life. Especially this last year and a half of life I lived in this huge contrast between living in my room and always being around for concerts. My room right now is everything to me. All my music is born here, especially every song of this album. I am one who has always refused to go to the studio, because I see in these four walls the perfect dimension to create and create. An ecosystem of life that is intimate and personal.
Credits: Matia Chiodo (T)
So a safe place?
Up to a certain point, however. Because then it is also the place where I confront myself, I question myself, I challenge myself, I crease. It is not a very quiet place.
From this room, however, you go out, even just to live the city every now and then?
I wouldn't call me one who comes out a lot. Especially in the last year, I can't say I have lived the city a lot. I was here in the bedroom to think, to think. It is a study album, of personal research that touches all the sides of my identity. I could not distract myself leaving. The only external dimension was the concert, being under everyone's eyes. These pieces have a particular story because they have also taken shape in the midst of people. I started playing the demo live, when maybe they didn't even have a text. Many words were born just singing in improvisation between the public. It is therefore an extremely personal album, entirely produced by me, but at the same time it is affected by another type of environment, in its way intimate (so much so that I had called the tour of last summer “Music from my room”), but still shared with many people at the same time.
Well, I can confirm that at the poplar your live was very beautiful.
Thank you. Yes, it was also as if we were all in the same room to make the same music. It is something that makes me so happy. For the first time in my life, thanks to the people who listen to me, I found understanding.
So much so that on stage you have been little there: you really got into the people with the microphone in hand.
That is something I always do. Because I don't like the physical distance with the public. I give you an example: I have this memory of me to the general warehouses that I am about to go back to the stage but then I think about it and go back down. I really thought: “No, I want to be among my people.” I have always made music for personal therapy, to amaze me. But the moments when my heart is filled with me is when I see that this search is not mine alone. So much so that I don't feel in the least protagonist of my concerts. The protagonist is the desire for humanity that I then find in the public.
Credits: Matia Chiodo (T)
The first album is called era, then there was the end and now comes it was the beginning. What logical order did you choose?
At the beginning this album had another name, because it was precisely another thing. When I started creating it it had to be one thing, but as happens in life you evolve every day, every second. Cambi. It was supposed to be a disk of pure sound research, but then I had really strong events in my life. So day after day they made it more and more personal, difficult and painful. For me to make an album is a cathartic process, in which I deal with myself. Today you find me very emotional because I just finished. It is an absurd moment for me.
Well, this strong emotional component of yours is also perceived in the discs and live, in the most emo sense of the term.
Yes, it is strange. However, returning to the logical order of the albums. It was it was the spark that made me understand many things in my life, I would not even know how to tell you about what. It was my birth, my vocation. The beauty of was the end and it was the beginning is that you can consider them semantically both with the noun era, but also with the imperfect indicative. Because I am convinced that something new is being born in the music scene, a new era that makes me happy. But the most beautiful thing is the verb in the past. Because the album had to be many things, but in the end it was only the beginning. A cycle of three discs closes but now something new begins. In addition, every time a record comes out, for the artist it is something already passed, a period overcome and metabolized. I hope this research started for the new album does not end here.
Credits: Matia Chiodo (T)
