want is the new album by Cristina Donà, published on December 3, 2021. The release of the album was anticipated by release of individuals Wish e Guilt. Also, during the summer tour 2021 the artist previewed some songs from the album live.

With want, Cristina Donà returns to the music scene after a long period of absence, which lasted seven years. The album, which saw the light of day thanks to a successful campaign by crowdfunding, contains 10 songs written before the pandemic with the exception of the song Without gun or sword. Below you can read the tracklist of the album:

01 Distracted
02 Guilt
03 Countdown
04 Wish
05 Like when trees talk to each other
06 Come back
07 Without gun or sword
08 Beyond
09 The autumn
10 Credits

On the occasion of the release of want, We reached Cristina Donà to talk about his musical comeback but above all about his new record. Here?s what he told us: happy reading!

Interview with Cristina Donà

Hi Cristina, welcome back on All Music Italia.
On December 3, 2021 the new album was released want, which marks your return to the musical scene 7 years after the previous unreleased album. Why this long absence?

I let time go by and bring me the answers to the questions that have surfaced over the years slowly and in a disordered way. I took the liberty to enter into relationships with projects by other artists that I respect and that I quote gladly because they have fueled my experience and therefore my music: Isabella Ragonese for ?Italia Numbers?, Massimo Cotto for ?Rock Bazar?, ?Sea Songs ?the water songs by and with Cristiano Calcagnile and a group of incredible musicians,? Love that you come, Love that you go. Fabrizio De Andrè: women and other stories ?a concert on the female figures of the De Andrè universe together with the crème of international jazz.

A record and a tour with the friend and wonderful voice Ginevra Di Marco and finally ?Perpendicular? with the extraordinary dancer choreographer Daniele Ninarello. In addition to the record of the twentieth anniversary of Tregua ?Tregua 1997-2017 Stelle Buone? released in 2017.

I wasn?t exactly idle, I continued to work expressing myself through different ways than the more usual one of a personal record.

want was born thanks to a campaign by crowdfunding. To be independent and to feel free artistically, it is necessary to resort to crowdfunding? What does it mean to make music today?

It means recognizing the positive news and being aware that new passages must be opened in a moment of sudden and continuous changes like this one. It means contributing to giving value and biodiversity to music. It means making more effort than before to offer oneself but also having powerful means, such as the network, available. It should mean being able to express oneself freely.

Crowdfunding is an extraordinary means, now established in every sector, which allows the artist to act freely and people to support a project they believe in. The management is articulated and complex but has a great driving force.

I actually met him when we made the album with Ginevra, always supported by crowdfunding.

The disc opens with Distracted, which is a sort of denunciation against today?s world, the distraction in which we live perpetually, consumerism, neglect for the planet and for others. One verse reads: ?This version of me has no future?. What are the important things that we have forgotten or are we neglecting? In your opinion, is there no hope of reversing the course?

In other moments in history, human beings have found themselves having to deal with the ?extremes? in the uses and consumption of a society, but never as in this moment, due to an unconscious or reckless use of technology and to the very high number of inhabitants on the planet, the risk is to suffocate under our own garbage, physical and moral.

Part of the problem is that we have no intention of giving up on comfort. We need to review our agendas, our priorities. I struggle a lot, but slowly I?m trying to focus on everyday habits to bring improvements, even slight but constant. I don?t know what are the important things that we have overlooked but I know for sure that we take for granted many that are not: water, gas, the car, the heating, a lot of clothes and useless objects.

Perhaps we have forgotten that everything is connected, that we are not alone and that each of our actions has consequences. Turning around or finding a new way of living is possible, we have to try, we owe it to our children.

Countdown is freely inspired by a story contained in the book ?In every sense, like love?By the writer Simona Vinci. How was the song born? Also, since the countdown is a waiting time before something, is there something that Cristina Donà is counting down for?

Simona is an incredible writer. His way of narrating uncomfortable, difficult, painful realities is highly poetic and this characteristic of his has deeply affected me. The song was born from two suggestions: one is in Simona?s story ?The courtyard?, included in the book you mentioned, where a girl, from the balcony, notices a man who every day, at a certain time, passes by and stops at look into the courtyard of the house where she lives, as if she had forgotten or was looking for something.

The other is linked to a phrase written down by me ?Every ten thoughts there is her that you miss?. I wanted to exasperate the concept of waiting, of repetition, of that way of flowing from one hundred to zero that are our lives, or more simply some experiences of existence, which always have a beginning and an end.

My countdown? I have a lot of pending things to solve and therefore a lot of turned hourglasses and just as many to turn. If you want an example: find time to redecorate your house.

Then there is Wish, which recalls the title want and states the theme of the whole album. The word desire means ?starlessness?. Is there something that Cristina Donà is missing today? What does Cristina Donà want today for herself as a woman and as an artist?

I want to be a good example of a human being. I really miss some people dear to me who are no longer there. I often lack the time.

Cristina Donà

The fifth piece of want is Like when trees talk to each other. It is a song with a particular title that tells an equally particular and unfortunately dramatic story, which really happened. Do you want to talk about it?

The song tells a story that touched me when I was in the first year of the Brera Academy of Fine Arts and concerns a fourth year student and her boyfriend who decided to take their own life together.

According to what was reported to us by our professor at the time, very attached to the student in question, it seems that their love story was at a crossroads and that they preferred to make it last forever by making an extreme gesture. I don?t know why but she came back to my thoughts a few years ago and I decided to let her in.

The breath of trees is something that we cannot hear, but it exists, as there are obviously reasons that lead people to make choices that are incomprehensible to us but which exist in their world. The breath of the trees helped me to lighten a painful tale.

Without gun or sword it is the only song written during the first lockdown in the spring of 2020. The song is a sort of your testimony of the massacre caused by the virus. Do you want to tell us about this song? And you want to tell us how you lived the lockdown?

Very bad. Val Seriana, in winter-spring 2020, was one of the places most affected by the virus in the world. Many people have died in terrifying ways, left alone, suffocated in their beds. Greet in the hospital through a telephone. The responsibility lies not only with the virus but with the mismanagement of the pandemic in a region where public health has been plundered for at least twenty years. There was the missing red zone of Alzano and Nembro and many other missteps. Investigations are underway on all this.

On the other hand, I think it is sacrosanct to remember the extraordinary work of doctors, nurses, health personnel who gave their lives and their hearts in a moment of apocalyptic chaos.

We have come to the end of this interview. Before we say goodbye, there is something else you would definitely like to say about your new album want?

Yes, I absolutely want to underline the extraordinary work of Saverio Lanza, who arranged, played and produced this album. It is the third that we do together and all three sound profoundly different and this highlights his enormous versatility and preparation. And I also want to remember how important it is to have an incredible entourage like mine close to me, starting with my manager Gianni Cicchi.

Thanks for this interview and the next one, always on All Music Italia.

Cristina Donà

Photo by Francesca Sara Cauli

01 Distracted
02 Guilt
03 Countdown
04 Wish
05 Like when trees talk to each other
06 Come back
07 Without gun or sword
08 Beyond
09 The autumn
10 Credits

On the occasion of the release of want, We reached Cristina Donà to talk about his musical comeback but above all about his new record. Here?s what he told us: happy reading!

Interview with Cristina Donà

I wasn?t exactly idle, I continued to work expressing myself through different ways than the more usual one of a personal record.

want was born thanks to a campaign by crowdfunding. To be independent and to feel free artistically, it is necessary to resort to crowdfunding? What does it mean to make music today?

I actually met him when we made the album with Ginevra, always supported by crowdfunding.

My countdown? I have a lot of pending things to solve and therefore a lot of turned hourglasses and just as many to turn. If you want an example: find time to redecorate your house.

I want to be a good example of a human being. I really miss some people dear to me who are no longer there. I often lack the time.

Cristina Donà

On the other hand, I think it is sacrosanct to remember the extraordinary work of doctors, nurses, health personnel who gave their lives and their hearts in a moment of apocalyptic chaos.

We have come to the end of this interview. Before we say goodbye, there is something else you would definitely like to say about your new album want?

Thanks for this interview and the next one, always on All Music Italia.

Cristina Donà

Photo by Francesca Sara Cauli

BAUTISTA, the duo formed by the Italian manufacturer Sunset and the Peruvian singer 999asura, released the new single Coca (Carosello Records/The Orchard).

Coca anticipates the debut album EMOTON, to be released on Friday 14 January and already available in the presave. A one-of-a-kind recording project that best represents their musical universe and above all the genre that they themselves have created and of which they are spokespersons: the emoton, in fact.

The term comes from the union of “emo” and “reggaeton” and indicates a very particular genre that recalls Latin music and the South of the world in its sonority but which is characterized by very deep and introspective contents and themes.

The apparently distant worlds of reggaeton and Latin sounds in a broader sense blend with the emotionally exasperating narrative of the Emo genre, demonstrating how something new, unexpected and full of meaning can be born from diversity.

Coca follow Callao and draws inspiration from the sh?nen, i hero’s journeys of Japanese manga culture.

Sunset e 999asura they have embarked on a path of intense, surprising and meaningful inner growth.

If Callao was the first stage of the journey – “awareness” – with “Coca” we reach that of “conflict”, with others but above all with ourselves.

Perhaps a more demanding phase to overcome, which leads to colliding with one’s inner demons but which is necessary in order to improve, grow and project oneself towards personal fulfillment.

In the piece it is as if Machweo’s sound, with attention to the smallest details, combined with the hypnotic voice of 999asura, transported the listener to the crowded and chaotic streets of Bogotà mentioned in the text, to the tireless search for the person for whom one is like “a madman without dignity ?, in a sort of sentimental abstinence that ensnares and at the same time leads to wandering aimlessly in the maze of one’s memories.

We know the Bautistas better

BAUTISTA is the project of Giorgio Spedicato aka Sunset e Gustavo Aaron Saavedra aka 999asura.

The name of the duo is the surname of Aaron’s mother, to whom the artist has always been very attached.

The partnership between the two begins in April 2019, when Giorgio asks Aaron to write about one of his productions.

The collaboration takes shape more and more and leads to the birth of BAUTISTA, which releases the single in January 2020 Emoton1.

The duo draws considerable media attention that Spotify chooses to include it in the shortlist of artists selected for the global program ?Spotify Radar?.

He was also betting on the talent of the two boys Vevo. Has reported BAUTISTA among the projects to keep an eye on this year and has included Sunset e 999asura among the names to follow 2021.

After joining the Carousel Records, i BAUTISTA they continued to produce music and released the songs To death e Notoriety, released in February, and A good story, out of April.

BAUTISTA, the duo formed by the Italian manufacturer Sunset and the Peruvian singer 999asura, released the new single Coca (Carosello Records/The Orchard).

Coca follow Callao and draws inspiration from the sh?nen, i hero’s journeys of Japanese manga culture.

Sunset e 999asura they have embarked on a path of intense, surprising and meaningful inner growth.

If Callao was the first stage of the journey – “awareness” – with “Coca” we reach that of “conflict”, with others but above all with ourselves.

Perhaps a more demanding phase to overcome, which leads to colliding with one’s inner demons but which is necessary in order to improve, grow and project oneself towards personal fulfillment.

In the piece it is as if Machweo’s sound, with attention to the smallest details, combined with the hypnotic voice of 999asura, transported the listener to the crowded and chaotic streets of Bogotà mentioned in the text, to the tireless search for the person for whom one is like “a madman without dignity ?, in a sort of sentimental abstinence that ensnares and at the same time leads to wandering aimlessly in the maze of one’s memories.

We know the Bautistas better

BAUTISTA is the project of Giorgio Spedicato aka Sunset e Gustavo Aaron Saavedra aka 999asura.

The name of the duo is the surname of Aaron’s mother, to whom the artist has always been very attached.

The partnership between the two begins in April 2019, when Giorgio asks Aaron to write about one of his productions.

The collaboration takes shape more and more and leads to the birth of BAUTISTA, which releases the single in January 2020 Emoton1.

The duo draws considerable media attention that Spotify chooses to include it in the shortlist of artists selected for the global program ?Spotify Radar?.

After joining the Carousel Records, i BAUTISTA they continued to produce music and released the songs To death e Notoriety, released in February, and A good story, out of April.

La Petite Sonja and Hank J. Mancini left water indie for a while and as Disco Ocultista they composed the soundtrack to Michal Nohejl’s film “Occupation”. “Working on film music was a big challenge and a dream come true,” summarizes the process of making Hank. But we also talked about whether new the duo will perform.

You created the soundtrack as Disco Ocultista. In an interview, Sonja revealed that the name has nothing to do with the occult, but that the Occult is a species of fish. What attracted you to the fish so much that it got the honor of being a part of your name?
Hank: I don’t know anything about that? (laughter)
Sonja: But yeah, once you, Hank, came up with the fact that you found a fish named Ocultist. There really is one. The phrase is so absurd even without a fish that I immediately liked it. Hank: Oh, that’s possible, I love coincidences. It just seemed like a great and a bit strange connection.

Why did you actually choose a new name for the occasion and not work on the music for the film as a band?
Hank: When we got the offer to work on film music, it was a big challenge and at the same time my dream came true. I’ve always wanted to do this, regardless of the band I’m in. In addition, we only worked with Sonja on the original original music, so it was actually offered to create a new one, secret project. Sonja: In the end, we still invited members of Kill The Dandies! To some of the songs, because we enjoy working together. Drummer Vratislav Placheta, accordionist Jehan Paumero and Amák Golden also took part in the Disco Ocultista project, not only as a sound engineer, but also as a bass player.

How did you get to work on the “Occupation”?
Hank: Michal Nohejl and I have known each other for a long time, we are very close friends and I think we have a very similar opinion on art, humor, music, style and so on. Michal directed some of our older clips and we always thought he would do his first big film, he will address us by creating a soundtrack for it.

How did you form? How is composing stage music different from composing songs for a group?
Hank: My approach is more or less quite similar, however, when composing music for a film or theater, it is necessary to respect the director’s opinion and know the aesthetics and storyline of a particular work. Plus, I don’t have to explain anything to the rest of the band here, just the director. It gets me into a kind of timelessness, when, unlike a more personal statement in the band, we do something like atmospheric sounds to pictures and events, we support emotions and invent where the sound will be and where, on the contrary, only some bustle or even complete silence will stand out. And since we more or less also worked on the overall musical dramaturgy, the work was all the more interesting. Sonja: Preparing music for a film is liberating for me personally, as Hank suggested, I’m not telling my own story, but I’m part of a story directed by someone else.

Who had and still has the main say in Disco Ocultista? Did you come across a controversial moment when, for example, you did not agree on which motive would be better for a specific moment in the film?
Hank: I think we agreed on everything and each of us has more or less the same share in the end result. In addition, we have a similar approach here as in the band. This means that at first we work more alone. So each of us composes the lyrics or just the melodic lines on a specific topic of the basic composition, if necessary, and from that we prepare other motifs in the studio and complete the complete arrangements. We then put the whole thing together in a pictorial part for specific places in the film.

And how did director Michal Nohejl interfere with the result? Did you have to rework a lot, or was everything good at first?
Sonja: Since we were preparing the music for the finished cut and Michal and I discussed the individual scenes in advance, it was relatively easy. There were perhaps only two or three passages where we did not promote our vision, but in the end it was for the good.

occult record

The Disco Ocultista duo consists of matadors of domestic indie music La Petite Sonja and Hank J. Mancini, known from the bands Moimir Papalescu & The Nihilists or Kill The Dandies !. The project was basically created to compose the soundtrack to the film “Occupation” by director Michal Nohejl. Under the new brand, Hank and Sonja wrote not only stage music for the film, but also several original songs, which they supplemented with songs by friendly bands and pieces from the home of Dandies, and they released the whole album at the end of November. The album “Okupace – original film soundtrack” should see a double baptism at the beginning of 2022 – on January 20 in the Prague club Fuchs2 and on February 10 in the Brno Cabinet of Muses.

In addition to stage music, you also composed several songs for the film. They were all rewritten, or you used some drawerswhich fit the mood?
Sonja: The basic songs we composed under the brand Disco Ocultista were really written for this particular film. It is worth mentioning the work on the Russian version of the opening song sung by the actor Aleksey Gorbunov. In cooperation with the language consultant, we had to prepare the Russian version of the text in order to preserve its meaning brotherly love and at the same time it was good to sing. Quite an interesting experience for me, I sang the role model for the actors directly in Russian, even though I really don’t know Russian. Otherwise, this particular song “How to Hold a Gun” contains a motif that basically runs through the film and the song “My Youth” is built on it. It sounds like a different song at first glance, but it’s actually different just vocal line, lyrics and tempo.

Another remarkable development was the composition that will appear at the end of the film. Originally, the director had a vision that the Russian folk song “Katyusha” would be used as the main motif. Fortunately, he abandoned this idea during the filming and we composed “The River” instead, which is just a paraphrase of the original “Katyusha”. It is also based on the original text, where a Russian girl is waiting for her sweetheart – a hero who is fighting for his homeland. We used this image to give it a different, much more tragic, content. Hank: Since most of the story takes place in a bar where a jukebox is played, it was a direct request from the director that in addition to the stage music, written specifically for the film, there was also background music for the dialogues and the story. In this case, we used ready-made songs from various artists, but we still wanted these things to always have a deeper relationship to a particular scene, ie to support it not only by being there, but also to illustrate emotions or atmosphere and tension. I think thanks to this combination, the soundtrack is a lot more colorful. I enjoy the way the stage music blends with the already finished songs and these two positions represent each other. Sonja: In addition to music from Disco Ocultista and Kill The Dandies, we are on the soundtrack! they also used songs from related bands such as Madhouse Express, Metronome Blues, Old Folks House, Thee Lazy Eyes, Body Wounds, Beps’n’Johnnies. I’m very happy with that selection, they’re great bands.

And are there any songs left that will not be heard in “Occupation” in the end?
Sonja: No. Hank: We still have some material left, but not much and most of the recorded stuff has been used.

What will happen next with Disco Ocultista? Will it become your next project, which will also be performed live, or is it purely a soundtrack affair, the name of which may soon appear under another film?
Hank: O living We are definitely not considering concerts yet, however, shortly after the release of the film, we received an offer from director David ?iktance to create stage music for the great theatrical play “American Bison”. It was launched in early October and seems to have been very successful overall. So I would say that we want to continue in a similar spirit.

occult record

And are there any songs left that will not be heard in “Occupation” in the end?
Sonja: No. Hank: We still have some material left, but not much and most of the recorded stuff has been used.

Sick Luke unveiled the tracklist of X2, his highly anticipated first album.

Signed by Carousel Records and distributed by Virgin/Universal, the disc will be released in CD, vinyl and on all digital platforms on January 7, 2022 and will be anticipated by the single The witch of the orchard.

Sick Luke has brought together the best names of the Italian pop, urban and rap scene in this record, combining artists and genres with flair and innovation, thus creating exclusive and unexpected features.

After years of being behind the scenes, Sick Luke opens the doors of his world, showing us his vision of music: a “new wave”, as he likes to define it himself.

We find them all in X2, ready to pay homage to the producer Luke in an album that is a manifesto of the current state of Italian music: contemporary and that goes beyond any genre boundary.

What comes out is a record that totally represents the sonic universe of Sick Luke. From early trap influences, up to indie and finally pop ones.

The traces reflect, like a mirror, the artistic soul of Luke, halfway between light and dark. Just like the symbol that made him famous: the butterbur, half butterfly, half bat.

Sick Luke, creative, whimsical, visionary

To reveal the tracklist of X2, Sick Luke has published a video with visual effects in 3D that immediately transports him to his typical dark and cartoonish imagery.

Adventure, curiosity and mystery are the key themes of the story, which catapulted the two protagonists into the magical and dark world of Sick Luke.

The digital presave and pre-order of X2, which will be available in different formats: on CD, 2 colored LPs, 2 colored autographed LPs (exclusively for Amazon), CD + hoodie bundle, 2LP + hoodie bundle, CD + manga bundle (an original story conceived and designed in manga style by Andrea Scanarini e Roberta Trocchia, of which he is the protagonist Luke – exclusively for Amazon).

Sick Luke unveiled the tracklist of X2, his highly anticipated first album.

After years of being behind the scenes, Sick Luke opens the doors of his world, showing us his vision of music: a “new wave”, as he likes to define it himself.

We find them all in X2, ready to pay homage to the producer Luke in an album that is a manifesto of the current state of Italian music: contemporary and that goes beyond any genre boundary.

What comes out is a record that totally represents the sonic universe of Sick Luke. From early trap influences, up to indie and finally pop ones.

The traces reflect, like a mirror, the artistic soul of Luke, halfway between light and dark. Just like the symbol that made him famous: the butterbur, half butterfly, half bat.

Sick Luke, creative, whimsical, visionary

To reveal the tracklist of X2, Sick Luke has published a video with visual effects in 3D that immediately transports him to his typical dark and cartoonish imagery.

Adventure, curiosity and mystery are the key themes of the story, which catapulted the two protagonists into the magical and dark world of Sick Luke.

want is the new album by Cristina Donà, published on December 3, 2021. The release of the disc was anticipated by release of individuals Wish e Guilt. Also, during the summer tour 2021 the artist previewed some songs from the album live.

01 Distracted
02 Guilt
03 Countdown
04 Wish
05 Like when trees talk to each other
06 Come back
07 Without gun or sword
08 Beyond
09 The autumn
10 Credits

On the occasion of the release of want, We reached Cristina Donà to talk about his musical comeback but above all about his new record. Here’s what he told us: happy reading!

Interview with Cristina Donà

I let time go by and bring me the answers to the questions that have surfaced over the years slowly and in a disordered way. I took the liberty to enter into relationships with projects by other artists that I respect and that I quote gladly because they have fueled my experience and therefore my music: Isabella Ragonese for “Italia Numbers”, Massimo Cotto for “Rock Bazar”, “Sea Songs ?the water songs by and with Cristiano Calcagnile and a group of incredible musicians,? Love that you come, Love that you go. Fabrizio De Andrè: women and other stories ?a concert on the female figures of the De Andrè universe together with the crème of international jazz.

A record and a tour with the friend and wonderful voice Ginevra Di Marco and finally “Perpendicular” with the extraordinary dancer choreographer Daniele Ninarello. In addition to the record of the twentieth anniversary of Tregua “Tregua 1997-2017 Stelle Buone” released in 2017.

I wasn’t exactly idle, I continued to work expressing myself through different ways than the more usual one of a personal record.

want was born thanks to a campaign by crowdfunding. To be independent and to feel free artistically, it is necessary to resort to crowdfunding? What does it mean to make music today?

I actually met him when we made the album with Ginevra, always supported by crowdfunding.

Cristina Donà

The disc opens with Distracted, which is a sort of denunciation against the current world, the distraction in which we live perpetually, consumerism, neglect for the planet and for others. One verse reads: “This version of me has no future“. What are the important things that we have forgotten or are we neglecting? In your opinion, is there no hope of reversing the course?

In other moments in history, human beings have found themselves having to deal with the “extremes” in the uses and consumption of a society, but never as in this moment, due to an unconscious or reckless use of technology and to the very high number of inhabitants on the planet, the risk is to suffocate under our own garbage, physical and moral.

Part of the problem is that we have no intention of giving up on comfort. We need to review our agendas, our priorities. I struggle a lot, but slowly I’m trying to focus on everyday habits to bring improvements, even slight but constant. I don’t know what are the important things that we have overlooked but I know for sure that we take for granted many that are not: water, gas, the car, the heating, a lot of clothes and useless objects.

Countdown is freely inspired by a story contained in the book “In every sense, like love?By the writer Simona Vinci. How was the song born? Also, since the countdown is a waiting time before something, is there something that Cristina Donà is counting down for?

Simona is an incredible writer. His way of narrating uncomfortable, difficult, painful realities is highly poetic and this characteristic of his has deeply affected me. The song was born from two suggestions: one is in Simona’s story “The courtyard”, included in the book you mentioned, where a girl, from the balcony, notices a man who every day, at a certain time, passes and stops at look into the courtyard of the house where she lives, as if she had forgotten or was looking for something.

The other is linked to a phrase written down by me “Every ten thoughts there is her that you miss”. I wanted to exasperate the concept of waiting, of repetition, of that way of flowing from one hundred to zero that are our lives, or more simply some experiences of existence, which always have a beginning and an end.

My countdown? I have a lot of pending things to solve and therefore a lot of turned hourglasses and just as many to turn. If you want an example: find time to redecorate your house.

Then there is Wish, which recalls the title want and states the theme of the whole album. The word desire means “starlessness”. Is there something that Cristina Donà is missing today? What does Cristina Donà want today for herself as a woman and as an artist?

I want to be a good example of a human being. I really miss some people dear to me who are no longer there. I often lack the time.

Cristina Donà

The song tells a story that touched me when I was a first year from the Brera Academy of Fine Arts and concerns a fourth year student and her boyfriend who decided to take their own life together.

According to what was reported to us by our professor at the time, very attached to the student in question, it seems that their love story was at a crossroads and that they preferred to make it last forever by making an extreme gesture. I don’t know why but she came back to my thoughts a few years ago and I decided to let her in.

The breath of trees is something that we cannot hear, but it exists, as there are evidently reasons that lead people to make choices that are incomprehensible to us but which exist in their world. The breath of the trees helped me to lighten a painful tale.

On the other hand, I think it is sacrosanct to remember the extraordinary work of doctors, nurses, health personnel who gave their lives and their hearts in a moment of apocalyptic chaos.

We have come to the end of this interview. Before we say goodbye, there is something else you would definitely like to say about your new album want?

Thanks for this interview and the next one, always on All Music Italia.

Cristina Donà

Photo by Francesca Sara Cauli

01 Distracted
02 Guilt
03 Countdown
04 Wish
05 Like when trees talk to each other
06 Come back
07 Without gun or sword
08 Beyond
09 The autumn
10 Credits

On the occasion of the release of want, We reached Cristina Donà to talk about his musical comeback but above all about his new record. Here’s what he told us: happy reading!

Interview with Cristina Donà

I let time go by and bring me the answers to the questions that have surfaced over the years slowly and in a disordered way. I took the liberty to enter into relationships with projects by other artists that I respect and that I quote gladly because they have fueled my experience and therefore my music: Isabella Ragonese for “Italia Numbers”, Massimo Cotto for “Rock Bazar”, “Sea Songs ?the water songs by and with Cristiano Calcagnile and a group of incredible musicians,? Love that you come, Love that you go. Fabrizio De Andrè: women and other stories ?a concert on the female figures of the De Andrè universe together with the crème of international jazz.

I wasn’t exactly idle, I continued to work expressing myself through different ways than the more usual one of a personal record.

want was born thanks to a campaign by crowdfunding. To be independent and to feel free artistically, it is necessary to resort to crowdfunding? What does it mean to make music today?

I actually met him when we made the album with Ginevra, always supported by crowdfunding.

Cristina Donà

Simona is an incredible writer. His way of narrating uncomfortable, difficult, painful realities is highly poetic and this characteristic of his has deeply affected me. The song was born from two suggestions: one is in Simona’s story “The courtyard”, included in the book you mentioned, where a girl, from the balcony, notices a man who every day, at a certain time, passes and stops at look into the courtyard of the house where she lives, as if she had forgotten or was looking for something.

My countdown? I have a lot of pending things to solve and therefore a lot of turned hourglasses and just as many to turn. If you want an example: find time to redecorate your house.

I want to be a good example of a human being. I really miss some people dear to me who are no longer there. I often lack the time.

Cristina Donà

The song tells a story that touched me when I was a first year from the Brera Academy of Fine Arts and concerns a fourth year student and her boyfriend who decided to take their own life together.

According to what was reported to us by our professor at the time, very attached to the student in question, it seems that their love story was at a crossroads and that they preferred to make it last forever by making an extreme gesture. I don’t know why but she came back to my thoughts a few years ago and I decided to let her in.

On the other hand, I think it is sacrosanct to remember the extraordinary work of doctors, nurses, health personnel who gave their lives and their hearts in a moment of apocalyptic chaos.

We have come to the end of this interview. Before we say goodbye, there is something else you would definitely like to say about your new album want?

Thanks for this interview and the next one, always on All Music Italia.

Cristina Donà

Photo by Francesca Sara Cauli

The January 14 the disk of Mirko and Valerio, the two very young Sicilian violinist twins who, at just 14 years old, enchanted Chris Martin of the Coldplay.

But let’s get to know the story of the two boys together …

It is the end of March 2020, the pandemic breaks out and the lockdown arrives in Italy. Mirko and Valerio they decide to strive to pass the time by spreading their music on the web. From that moment several things happen that make them known to the general public on social networks but also on TVs all over the world.

Among the many videos that the two violinists publish is the cover of Live life of the Coldplay. Their version, a motivational hymn of hope and light at the height of the Corona Virus Pandemic, goes viral and touches the hearts of people around the world.

They notice the same ones Coldplay who share the video on all their official social networks, Facebook Instagram, Twitter. In this way, millions of views and hundreds of thousands of shares and likes from social networks arrive and televisions all over the world notice them.

Mirko and valerio from coldplay to world attention

There comes a time when the Management of Coldplay with the explicit request of Chris Martin to know personally Mirko and Valerio. There is thus a first private cognitive video call by the group leader, to ask the boys to perform with him live on the official social networks of the Coldplay in a World Live streaming that took place a few weeks later.

The video also reaches the first place in the ranking of the top ten Most Popular video on the American portal of CBS News International and the President of the European Parliament David Sassoli, makes a post on his official profile talking about Mirko and Valerio enthusiastically.

Even the prize Oscar Penelope Cruz and many other famous people make posts and / or stories on Mirko and Valerio who are consequently contacted by the most well-known National and International Talent Shows, offers declined for previous contractual reasons.

Furthermore The Ellen Show, one of the greatest American TV shows that hosts the most famous world stars, officially invites them to America for an episode complete with a video invitation from the well-known presenter, Ellen DeGeneres.

THE DISC

All this attention bears the label Beat Noise to decide to launch the twins on the record market. It will thus be released on January 14, 2021 with distribution Warner Music, the solo violin album The Violin Twins.

This is the tracklist with the songs that will be contained on the disc. In addition to two Italian songs taken from the soundtracks of famous films, there are only two songs by Italian artists, the two artists who have conquered a Grammy Awards: Domenico Modugno e Laura Pausini.

Sweet child o?mine
He’s a pirate (Pirates of the Caribbean)
Life is Beautiful
Sway with me
Medley: Smooth criminal + Billy Jean
Amazing grace
Loneliness
The final countdown
Perfect
In the blue painted blue (Flying)
New Cinema Paradiso
Live life

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Cover photo taken from an interview with AG.TV

The January 14 the disk of Mirko and Valerio, the two very young Sicilian violinist twins who, at just 14 years old, enchanted Chris Martin of the Coldplay.

But let’s get to know the story of the two boys together …

Mirko and valerio from coldplay to world attention

THE DISC

Sweet child o?mine
He’s a pirate (Pirates of the Caribbean)
Life is Beautiful
Sway with me
Medley: Smooth criminal + Billy Jean
Amazing grace
Loneliness
The final countdown
Perfect
In the blue painted blue (Flying)
New Cinema Paradiso
Live life

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Cover photo taken from an interview with AG.TV

Axos (at the registry office, Andrea Molteni) launch the song Molecules, in store from December 9, 2021. The single comes out a few weeks after the show’s announcement The Experience, scheduled for April 14, 2022 to the General Warehouses from Milano and already sold out.

Molecules (under exclusive license to Believe Artist Services) is a romantic song, which speaks of a deep, sensual love free from the chains of the ego. To describe this feeling, Axos it draws inspiration from the Hindu religion and, in particular, from the divine couple Krishna e Radha. For the artist, this couple represents the ideal of ?perfect love?, devoid of space-time constraints.

The song offers lyrics and suggestive images, enhanced by the dynamism of the music capable of mixing melancholy melodies and purely hip hop sounds. Molecules, produced by JVLI, follows publication – ad October 2021 – of the individual On the moon which had marked the return of Axos on the scene after the release of the disk Anima Mundi.

The artist’s musical path is projected towards 2022, When Axos will be the protagonist of the show The Experience. This is the first “live trip” ever made, that is a show that goes beyond a simple concert. The live is announced as a unique show, full of surprises and twists.

The Experience is scheduled for Thursday April 14, 2022 to the General Warehouses from Milano. The show was sold out. So, Axos and his band decided to double up by adding a new date. The show The Experience will also be held on April 21, 2022, always ai General Warehouses from Milano.

Axos, the experience

April 14, 2022 – GENERAL WAREHOUSES – Milan (SOLD OUT)
April 21, 2022 – GENERAL WAREHOUSES – Milan

Axos

Tickets and VIP Packs for the new date are available on the circuits Ticketone e Ticketmaster from December 23, 2021. The cost of tickets is ? 22.00 (+ prev.). Furthermore, it is possible to purchase the VIP Pack, at the price of ? 75.00 (+ prev.). The VIP Pack includes: Tattoo ?SAD ARMY?, in the professional studio; Entrance 30 minutes before the gates open; Unique place at the live ?The Experience?; Meet & Greet and Photo Call with Axos; Laminated pass

Per news and updates, you can visit i social from Axos: Facebook, Instagram, YouTube.

Axos

Axos in the song

Axos, the experience

April 14, 2022 – GENERAL WAREHOUSES – Milan (SOLD OUT)
April 21, 2022 – GENERAL WAREHOUSES – Milan

Axos

Per news and updates, you can visit i social from Axos: Facebook, Instagram, YouTube.

Axos

Axos in the song

The two released recordings of their own projects this year, but still found time for a record together. I mean Martin Schuster (Mindwork, Face The Day) and Martin “Spacosh” Perina (Between The Planets). Their common child is called Martians and at the end of November they released their debut “You Are Here”.

In their releases this year, both protagonists hunted in a harder musical spectrum. Martin Schuster’s EP “Cortex” Mindwork is progressive-death metal, Perrín’s “Between The Planets” album “Parallel World” is much more ethereal, but still stands on the basis of honest riffs. Martians go about it completely differently and the album “You Are Here” shows somewhat different faces of both masters, although the links to Schuster’s next project Face The Day are recognizable here.

“You Are Here” is a contemplative prog-rock recording that went without pomp and big gestures, an introverted or even intimate recording. The practically uniform middle tempo shakes pleasantly and reminds us of similarly cut Porcupine Tree music trips and their mastermind Steven Wilson. The music flows inconspicuously, as if it was just passing by the listener. It doesn’t need spectacular ideas, dramatic solos, dynamic ups and downs. Everything essential is hidden in its gentle ripples and occasional melodic rise. And that’s plenty. It’s offering geological example: In order for the water to excavate the riverbed, it does not need a powerful current, just patience is enough. And that, let’s face it, is quite a need in this case. The debut of the Martians project is not easy. And he probably doesn’t. It is as if the music exists in its own world, which is enclosed in a glass sphere. This invisible barrier sometimes likes to let the listener in and let him research in a thoughtfully moody landscape of intertwining guitars, electronic instruments and voice. But other times, when it’s not the right mood, the listener stays in front of the invisible wall and the melodies and words don’t speak to him. This is a truly unusual experience. But the magic of “You Are Here” lies in something else. This album will not leave you alone. Despite futile attempts, it entices the listener to try again and again. If the barrier doesn’t break down, even when looking over glass there is a lot of beauty in it. Textually, Martians delve into a dream subconscious. And there can be a lot of darkness, but there is room for hope. There are introverted escapes to the inner worlds, feelings of isolation (successful verse in the song “Abusing The Muse” “I?m trapped in my home, no due to lock down”), images of nightmares – and again a hope that is quite possibly hidden in the worlds we can dream of.

“You Are Here” is a great feat from two experienced musicians who know exactly what they want. They managed to connect their musical worlds into a cohesive whole, which is very colorful and full of great ideas in its inconspicuousness. And that hard-to-grasp inaccessibility gives him the much-needed aura of mystery.

This year, the two-member Munroe formation raised money for their new album ?Wild Flowers? through a crowdfunding campaign. ?We wanted to keep the rawness and minimalism,? says singer and lyricist Jan Kunze about her. In the conversation, however, there were, for example, wolves, forest and Jeseníky.

Kay Burianek from Sunshine helped you with the production of your debut years ago. What was it like now with the second album ?Wild Flowers?? How was the approach different? It is said that you have tried cooperation with three different producers ?

We wanted to move, and we were looking for someone who would intersect with our vision. Although we experimented and tried to work with three producers, we ended up producing the record ourselves. We like to work with other creatives, but it is absolutely essential for us to make it happen and the person understands who we are and how we create.

Why did you name the new line ?Wild Flowers?? As I was looking for this connection, this quote from EV jumped out at me: ?Like wildflowers; you have to afford to grow in places where people wouldn?t think you ever would.? Does it have any connection or other metaphor?
For us, ?wild flowers? is synonymous with independence. It is based on my lyrics to the song ?The End of Summer?, where it sings: ?It?s the end of the summer that you sow, you reap it, but I?m not a field, I?m a meadow of wildflowers.? People have the idea that they will compare you to some formula that suits them, and they don?t like it when you step out of their formula. They can?t deal with it. It?s actually just like in that quote: ?You have to afford to grow in all places.?

They say you had twenty-five songs. Why did you keep the same ratio of seven songs as in the first?
It is so. We have a lot of songs on the demos, but nowadays singles come as a waste of time, energy and money to make long records. People still know two of the three main singles in the final. The other songs are for rock fans and connoisseurs who listen to the whole album. In addition, we released it on vinyl along with their debut, so in fact everyone who buys it will get two albums and a total of 14 songs.

Munroe

Munroe consists of singer and songwriter Jan Kunze and musician Vladimír Ja?ke. The creative music and art duo released this year five years after their debut ?From the Clean Sky? EP ?Wild Flowers?. Both albums also offer on double vinyl, which thus contains 14 pieces that were created during the entire musical activity of the formation. Compared to the first, the novelty is spiced with light electronics and a larger connection of acoustic guitars.

Speaking of that vinyl edition ? why did you decide to take this step? The cover is such a design. Does the black-red combination show your concept of wildness? It reminds me more of funeral flowers?
We want to differentiate Munroe musically and visually, so we still stick to black and white, whether in photos or video clips. But to move it any further, we let in a bit of color to the ?Wildflowers? visuals. But very decently. An attentive person is thus able to distinguish which songs and visuals were created for the first and which for the second album. Our music and overall feeling is based on decadent aesthetics, but there is no sadness. More like the aforementioned savagery. Photographer and artist Michelle Adler put it this way: visually we are somewhere between interwar German expressionist photography and the late 70?s à la Joy Division.

The basics of some recordings were created in your favorite Jeseníky Mountains. Does this environment reflect the result? Press materials say that you have spiced up ?Wild Flowers? with light electronics and that there are more acoustic guitars. Did you want to sound rawer, darker?
We definitely wanted to maintain the rawness and minimalism, the attributes that are typical of our music. At the same time, we wanted to move a little differently on the new record. For us, experimenting with sound is an important part of creating. There is no point in repeating the same concept. The Jeseníky Mountains are wild mountains, you can still smell the Sudeten tales. I think that indomitability can be felt on the record as well.

Drummer Roman Vícha was also in the studio with you. Did it not occur to you to permanently expand the project so that it is not just a two-member? Isn?t it a handicap to play in just two, or do you really rely on it?
This handicap of ours is also our motto. The listener must tune in to our energy, accept our game. Of course, we can never sound like a personal band with drums and bass, but we don?t want that either. We would like to keep that expressive originality. We worked with Roman on the first record and it worked. It belongs to the top in the Czech Republic and we understand each other. We design the original beats ourselves, and he then expands them and transforms them into a living form. In concert, we do without a drummer, because we incorporate other elements into the music, such as a reel tape recorder or loops, which we twist and destroy in real time. The concert is therefore different from the record. Such a wilder ritual.

You raised money for the album through HitHit. Among the rewards were, for example, an online chat on any topic, a rhetoric course, a private author?s reading, a role in a video clip or an original song directly for the contributors. Has any of this happened yet? Was it enriching for you too?
The main surprise for us was that so many people supported us. We collected about 220% of the original amount. All the rewards you mention were ordered by someone, but the main part was orders for vinyl records, T-shirts, GOLD and VIP packages. We have already sent most of it to our supporters. Of those living There has not been much reward for the covid pandemic, but of course we are counting on it.

The lyrics are said to tell the stories of bards, outcasts and fools. Is it a desire to talk to people?
I like to observe and communicate with people, they are a source of information about themselves, about the state of this world. Outcasts from society, bards and fools, pursue their ideals over all obstacles, plaster classical social norms, discover and are an endless source of wonderful stories. I?ve always had a weakness for them.

The opening song is ?There?s nothing to be afraid of?. Do you think there is fear in society?
Stach is one of the primary human emotions and the greatest enemy of mankind. In today?s society, anyone is juggling him. We don?t want to be a part of it. We believe that life is worth living and that there is no point in producing any negativity or evil. Small and stupid people show evil.

What does it mean ?I bought a thousand pigeons for you??
It?s a metaphor. A special gift, which is a huge beautiful gesture, but in fact nothing tangible will be left of it in the end. A thousand pigeons fly away and only a memory remains, just that one beautiful moment of thousands of fluttering wings. It is the relativization of material things by which this world is overwhelmed.

Are you the meadow of wild flowers yourself and not the field as you sing in ?Wolf Minuet??
I have lived my whole life. I do what I enjoy, and that?s how I make a living. I try to maintain my creative independence and not adapt to those who would like to create any boundaries for me and fit me into their boxes. I try to improve and I do not avoid challenges. It?s probably a harder way to live, but it?s free and worth it in every way. Freedom always lies in the courage to do things your way.

The accompanying video acknowledges the fascination with the 1950s. What do you enjoy about them?
The American horror films from the 1950s are both aesthetically very specific and full of bizarre screenwriting ideas. Both aspects are inspiring to us. It was also important for us to shoot something completely different from what is happening here today. Given the feedback, I feel it worked out.

How is it ?dancing with black wolves?how do you sing in the song?
For us, the forest and its magic are a natural part of our aesthetics and wolves belong to it. They are an integral part of our and Indian mythology. The Indians valued the wolf as a brave hunter, for his vitality and ability to move quietly and unobtrusively across the landscape. They admired him not only for his strong family ties, but also because he defended his territory against intruders. All these qualities are admirable.

The end of the clip for this song is also a kind of metaphor for feelings from the Czech music scene ? that at times you feel like you are from Mars. Because of what? What annoys you on the music scene?
The Czech music scene is a small musty pond. If you want to do something original, your own, you have to reckon with the fact that the journey will be harder. In America and England, the media and music awards are looking for and trying to promote special things. The same names are still being messed up here. The chapters themselves are radios, to which there is no chance to get without the support of a large company. The founder of the Jantar art awards, the independent radio station Ostravan and the visionary Ale? Honus recently said that there are a lot of great songs in the playlists of the mentioned radio, that he does not understand at all why other radio stations do not give space to very high quality bands.

Why do you have flowers instead of microphones in the clip?
It has a connection to the name of the album ?Wild Flowers?. As I recently wrote on Facebook, flowers are the best microphones.

We would love to thank the writer of this short article for this outstanding web content

Munroe

Why do you have flowers instead of microphones in the clip?
It has a connection to the name of the album ?Wild Flowers?. As I recently wrote on Facebook, flowers are the best microphones.

We would love to thank the writer of this short article for this outstanding web content

From December 10, 2021 is in the store digital and in radio rotation the song Maybe from Denise Manno. At the same time, it is available online also the official video clip of the song.

Maybe (record label I Disks / management Team Media Group) is written by the same Denise and tells a very personal aspect of his life. The song was born as an outlet during the six months of the artist’s stay at the Cedial from Palermo, center for the treatment of eating disorders (DCA).

This problem is widespread, but often underestimated. Denise Manno aims to highlight it thanks to Maybe. The song wants to be a hand in music to all those people who feel alone, failed or excluded from the world. In presenting the song, Denise spoke about the problem he experienced, describing it as “a monster that silently crept into my life and turned it off day after day“. About Maybe, he then said: “A story in which I perfectly describe my state of mind every time those little voices tormented my mind. Over time I learned to accept them, listen to them from another perspective but above all to color them, because I was tired of seeing everything gray?.

Who knows is a message of hope

Denise Manno he then added “The release of the single, on my initiative, was designed for the month of December and will be a small gift that I will give to all those people who, like me, suffer or have suffered from DCA. I know how it feels not to share the joy of a hot family meal during Christmas dinners, I know how hard it is to have a house full of food and not being able to touch it in front of others. In my case, ‘binge eating’ led me to binge eating in secret, so enjoying food with my family was now impossible.?.

The artist concludes with a message of hope: “I strongly believe that December is the most beautiful month of the year. Christmas has always been my favorite holiday, we celebrate, laugh, have fun all together, unfortunately, for many people it’s just a nightmare. I want to give them hope, light and love, because in reality it is never the end?.

Executive production is by Ilario Drago e Stefano Pugnali. Maybe is produced by Enrico Kikko Palmosi, mixed by Sabatino Salvati and mastered by Marco D’Agostino @ 96khz, Milano.

Denise Manno

That’s who Denise Manno is

Denise Manno, 24-year-old Sicilian singer-songwriter, made her debut at thirteen by publishing video sketches and covers of her favorite artists on Youtube e Facebook. Thus, it gets noticed by the public; later, take part in competitions and performances on stages around the Sicily.

In his personal history there have been difficult moments related to eating disorders, overcome thanks to music and shared with his community on social networks (4 million views between TikTok e Instagram).

A March 2021 the single comes out Kleopatra, in which the singer from Palermo experiments with different Egipt sound and tells a little about herself, her music and the message she wants to convey to all the people who follow her.

With the song Maybe, Denise Manno continues the story of himself.

Denise Manno

Who knows is a message of hope

Denise Manno

That’s who Denise Manno is

With the song Maybe, Denise Manno continues the story of himself.

Denise Manno