The phenomenon of Emma Nolde – Rockon.it

Article by Marzia Picciano | Photo of Rossella Mele

Emma Nolde is a phenomenon, in every sense.

Or rather: in the scientific sense of the term it is, without a shadow of a doubt. We are faced with a very common event, despite being immersed in a historical moment of production and compulsive listening of music: what often happens that a girl, incredibly simple in her proposal (not in the arrangements, but compared to the search for spectacularization and communication artifices)in its appearance (“A high girl“, Ironsize her), do such a powerful exploit in a creative scenario as that of Italian music starting from the alternative songwriting and conquering such a large front of appreciation, from Nicolo Fabi and the trio ofAve Maria of the Italian song Made in Rome (add Gazette And Daniele Silvestri) a Mecna that climbs on stage with her in a duet for Question point?

Not often. Yesterday in Milan the attention was divided between Jovanotti And she, who from the second date of a Sold out last December 13 managed to make another Tuttoeesaurito atArci Beautycollecting an audience of lovers (really) and artists, also a little in love (from Levante to Celeste from the door). To mention authoritative voices of national culture, it will also be that the Tuscans have ruined this country, but evidently we like them a lot and some merits have it.

One is certainly the fact that Emma Maestrelli (as is the result of the registry office, aka, instead, like the painter Emil) operates as a Caterpillar.

At 24 he got to grind and explode from San Miniato. The last year was a real explosion: we had seen young promise to Circo Massimo with the supermented trio and from Fearless hearts of You love me al Magnolia late summer (together with dad to cheer), at the opening of Subsonic – Although it has been writing for 14 years and since 2019 he has been doing concerts, despite Covid. Then he published Newospiotempo again And we arrived on the third album and to the aforementioned Soldouts.

I say it badly: it is one that, in addition to having undoubtedly talent, works, and also a lot. There is not a second, during her live, that I think you or her production may have made her some step easier. If the stage had come down, this high girl high with her hair perpetually in the face would have continued to sing and would have been a beautiful concert anyway.

From piece a piece, on a stage full of instruments (and very valid musicians, stage companions and beyond: Andrea Beninati to the cello, Francesco Panconese to the keyboard/sax e Marco Martinelli On drums), the Nolde did not spare itself, in energy, movements, tools, jumps, physical and cultural appropriation of the stage. It is an intensive and extremely expected training.

The trust of the public does not only come from well-agreed lyrics to an engaging and certainly varied rock-pop (there are seas between a pieces like Sirens And Berlin And on this in particular: the live yesterday made ten times more than the exaggerated volume streaming), and not only because they refer to very different genres and rhythms).

The merit of Emma Nolde is also to present a musical genre that looks a lot to how the songwriter music is made in Italy (starting from Fabi), But he also does it looking out, and putting himself of his, something different, innovative (at the beginning he wrote in English, to say).

A piece like You left to danceone of the first and in the lineup last night, among other things among the most exciting of the entire performance, already revealed the will to make a new speech in how to paint relationships (this time those between sisters who grow and change) in music .

NewospioTetempo is a concept album. It has a very precise intro and sequence of themes and ideas – those primarily, of the search for an intimacy that every day we find it more difficult to find, how to not be happy with what you have, and realize people That are next to us, those who always remain. And even last night he reminded us, that he was doing the live of a concept album, since he attacked (with Introin fact) and turned on the vocal refractors of Very quietly!

And also: there is something fascinating in the figure of the nolde. A look almost as a child who then behaves and speaks as an adult. Something that does not stop surprising me when before launches on the most lively songs like Never stopped or Always the same storyThen he snorts the LGBT+ flag and in the end he points out to everyone that the best way to talk about January 27 is to resume the old lesson on the difference between forget and forget.

And yes, it is also visibly excited, decidedly spontaneous, but to the control of everything, or rather: conscious of everything, how it stands but also, above all how the splendid factory that has created, including the opening of Baltimoraemerging artist who places feelings on the same line as the Nolde emergency. There is nothing wrong with yesterday's live, and this probably, Emma and her entourage know it well.

Because it is incredible to have such a quality product without having to hide under twenty thousand masks or extraordinary commercial finds. Present yourself as the Nolde does, jacket socks and white tank top, loose hair – of course, also this certainly not by chance, but what revolutionary is this strategy? Which favors removing rather than adding, when wherever I go I seem to see people increasingly full of attributes and thoughts, while here there is only a girl who pulls straight without too many pretensions. And that makes clear, precise, intense, democratic music (because it is really for everyone, but without ever expiring in the banal). \

Who knows if we should not all be a little Emma Nolde, even when we are simply us.

Click here to see Emma Nolde's photos in Milan (or browse the gallery below).

Emma Nolde – The Scaletta of the Milan concert on January 27th

1. Intro
2. Very quietly!
3. Story of a kiss
4. Remain
5. Parallel universe
6. Purple smiles
7. Out of tune voices
8. Breath
9. Everything flows
10. Berlin
11. Question point (with Mecna)
12. Sleep
13. You left to dance
14. Touch
15. Never stopped
16. Sirens
17. Always the same story

Encore

1. Tocaterara
2. Strangers
3. Black slate