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Vasco Rossi: “Without music I’m nothing”

The eighteenth studio album of Zocca’s Komandante is released on November 12th. Is titled We are here, like the piece that anticipated it, and declares its intent right from the title. It is a stance, a desire to live the present, also understand it, but above all live it, in contrast to style and words. It is an album played, with real instruments, drums, bass, guitars, keyboards, it is an album that provokes, amuses, always makes us reflect in a few words, as in the style of a singer-songwriter. “I always use as few words as possible because in my opinion it is the listener’s imagination that must fly. This is an amused album. Amused and entertaining that communicates spontaneity and truth. I’m only sincere in the songs», He had declared at the press conference, describing his record.

Ten songs, which tell ten different stories, full of rock, written to be sung live, during the pandemic that has kept him away from his natural environment, from the only place where he can feel good: the stage. «Two summers without concerts. I realized that if I don’t do gigs, the most important purpose of my life is missing. Without music I am nothing. We have rescheduled the dates for 2022. They have become 11, from North to South ». The last time live in the six dates at the Milan stadium in 2019, and now this grueling wait, which has brought out these new words that will enter the stadiums from 20 May 2022.

Society, reflections, love, relationships, life, the passing of time, freedom. The battles of those who hide their weaknesses, the need to say what they think in an increasingly hostile world. Riff of guitars, pisedelic influences, inserts of harmonicas and accordions, listening to this album goes from words to immersion in sounds. A complex work, edited, studied and arranged by Celso Valli and Vince Pastano that mixes with the intuitiveness and energy of the greatest Italian rocker who makes rock his very nature. It is not an attitude, it is now essence.

The disc starts with XI commandment and that energy that, for all Vasco fans, makes you feel at home, in your own safe place, in the place where rock lives and screams loudly, where no one ever gives up, even when the country seems to surrender to the bitter end, guitars play that mark the rhythm of a song that also speaks of politics, in its visionary way “I feel enormous ignorance in the air. It is my vision, we do not expect new special laws but a real eleventh commandment».

The Blasco renews itself, remaining itself. Always recognizable, unique on the other hand, who does not care about where the fashions go or how much a song must be streamed. It doesn’t need it, it will never need it. Perhaps the only one ever and forever. “There are my additional awarenesses that do not console but from which there is no turning back».

In Love love he enjoys telling how today’s relationships are, him with her, she with him, the fluid relationships. “I am really open, everyone can do what they want, the important thing is that there is love. They hear of all colors, I say my position ». More than a thousand well-thinking people, without fear of taking a stand, with clear thoughts that they are not afraid to expose. Like those who tell the feelings.

Rain on Sundays it’s a dip in nostalgia, You have it with me, again with the grit of a super rock song, he tells what he feels when he enters social media “We all insult each other.” Vasco deals with the present time, with its positive and negative sides, he stops to think about life, about what it means to breathe (One more breath), to the meaning of everything, to what life makes you lose, to what you find (I found you). “It’s another piece I’m very attached to. I had a moment when I realized that I had quarreled with life and with me, with everything. I found you, which is the guitar I no longer played, or a loved one ». There is its romantic side, of those who have been able to sing love for 43 years, there is the story of relationships that begin and end, there is the desire to let go (Let’s take flight) where the blue sky sung becomes the only possible scenario to start flying.

Closes the disc A love song thrown away, a poignant ballad that sings about love but almost seems like a request to the listener “Don’t let me go away,” he says. And the answer seems obvious. Now that we’ve just found it, we don’t really intend to.

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