“Se Ci Credi” (Goodfellas/Believe), the third album of unreleased songs by Antonio Pignatiello from Irpinia, will be presented on Friday, December 27 in Lacedonia. The appointment is at 17,30:61 pm in the classroom of Mavi, the Irpino Visual Anthropological Museum (Via Tribuni, 25), where the singer-songwriter will talk about his new album, prompted by questions from journalists Michele Fumagallo (Il Manifesto – Alias), Rosaria Carifano (Irpiniapost) and Maria Fioretti (Orticalab). There will also be an opportunity to watch the two lucky video clips of the singles that anticipated the album's release, which currently stand at around XNUMX thousand views, and to listen to some songs in unplugged version: guitar, harmonica and voice.
“If you believe it” is a concept album and tells the dream of a precarious generation, that of the 80s: the crisis of relationships, the brain drain, the creaking of moral values; a journey through ten songs, ten lives, ten images that intertwine on a path of precariousness and insecurity but always in search of a better life and a "promised land". A journey into the depths to try to tell the complexity of life "With simple words", to use Bukowski's words.
Directed and produced by Taketo Gohara (sound designer who has signed works by Vinicio Capossela, Brunori Sas, Marta sui Tubi, Negramaro, Motta, Ministri, Verdena, Mauro Pagani and many others), the album is composed of ten tracks. A record of great intensity made with few instruments and some colors, such as those of the accordion of Roberto Manuzzi, a great jazz musician for years alongside Francesco Guccini. Pignatiello's sound draws from American rock and harks back to reference artists such as Bruce Springsteen and Tom Waits.
“I was chasing an atmosphere, a soundscape capable of describing the world I had experienced during my childhood,” says Pignatiello, “and that I still carried with me; a place that preserved part of my imprints intact… I had frequented the ghosts of Se ci credi in those old streets hungry for dreams and youth. My family, my friends, Bruce Springsteen, Rolling Stones, Neil Young, Woody Guthrie… the novels of Jack Kerouac, Bukowski, Henry Miller, John Fante, Cesare Pavese, Italo Calvino, the stories of Fernanda Pivano… the westerns of Sergio Leone and the science fiction films of Steven Spielberg”.
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