SWALLOWthe young Roman singer -songwriter born in 2005 already known to the general public also as the author of several songs for Friends (from Redflower Di Mida at the last unpublished of Luk3), releases his first album, of the same name.
This first album is first of all an identity manifesto: twelve tracks that tell who it is, where it comes from and what it wants to become. Thomas Santonithis is his real name, he chose as a name of art Swallow Because it contains the idea of freedom, of movement, returning to the roots.
Rondine, a personal and generational debut album
Output Friday 4th April For Columbia Records/Sony Music, Swallow It is the story of a generation that tries to find one's voice in the midst of anxieties, growth, complicated relationships. A record that arises from an authentic need to express itself, between glimpses of Roman life, daily poems and immediate but never banal writing.
Grown to Villa Fiorellibetween the Olimpico choirs and the readings of Leopardi, Swallow The influences of the most traditional Italian pop (Ramazzotti, Ferro) with the songwriting form.
Collaborations and tracklist
The album is enriched by five collaborationsall born from human and artistic relationships:
- Mew in Darkness: “I worked with her on several songs and having her voice here was natural”
- Quentin40 in Forever (Rome): a homage common to the capital
- Enrico Nigiotti in Stop: a dialogue between two generations
- Mazzariello in Before sleeping: an intimate, sweet and night song
- Tancredi in Until you turn off: the final track of the project
They worked on production Marco Paganelli, Gianmarco Grande, Kyv, Matteo milita, Marta Venturini And Dema.
Following the tracklist of the disk you find in pre-order here.
- My truth
- Away from everything
- The darkness (feat. Mew)
- Take me seriously
- Forever (Rome) (feat. Quentin40)
- Borderline
- Stop the age (feat. Enrico Nigiotti)
- Before sleeping (feat. Mazzariello)
- Who would have said it
- Messina bridge
- Until you turn off (feat. Tancredi)
- Let's pretend that
Recall that Rondine was also chosen by Amazon Music as one of the three Italian artists of the program Breakthrough 2024dedicated to emerging talents.