Mattia Rame's first album, 'Lo Spazio, l'Egitto, Battiato', is out

Available from January 12th digitally and accompanied on the radio by the new single and video clip “I Ghiacciai”, “Lo Spazio, l'Egitto, Battiato”, produced by Alessandro Giovannini (White Rock Studio) for Gallia Music, is the first album by Roman singer-songwriter Mattia Rame, a collection of songs that blends poetic introspection with bold experimental sounds.

The entire album, with its diverse tones and atmospheres, offers a deep dive into the artist's soul. Through love hymns and tributes to iconic figures like Marilyn Monroe and Frida Kahlo, Mattia Rame tells stories of love and transformation, interwoven with literary references that transport the listener on a conceptual journey. "Lo Spazio, l'Egitto, Battiato" stands out for its eccentricity, incorporating electronic elements, rock sounds, poetic and musical references into a work that reflects the artist's very essence with reflections on reading, love, solitude, and the search for one's identity amidst cosmic and internal turmoil.

The album, anticipated in 2023 by the songs "Muoviti" and "Mare Mare," is accompanied on the radio from January 12th by the single and video clip "I Ghiacciai," directed by Alessandro Siccardi. A song about the urgency of change that explains the underlying concept of all of Mattia Rame's music and research. A debut album is, in fact, like a birth because we are all called to be born. To be born to ourselves, to be reborn, for the first time; to find ourselves, to identify, beyond family and social conditioning, open wounds, ugliness, beyond our infinite daily deaths to which we are and always will be condemned. "Open up, let's open up" is the categorical, joyful, and loving imperative that Life gives us when it ultimately urges us to follow it. "Let's follow it, gently, without reservations!"

“Space, Egypt, Battiato” - Tracklist

The glaciers
With blue Doctor Martens
Plastic
Marilyn Monroe
Get off
To read
Like a dog
Sea Sea
Frida Kahlo
To the souls

“Space, Egypt, Battiato” - Track by Track

The Glaciers
It's the single and video that accompany the album's release, a song about the urgency of change, about the world falling and about revolution. About the Love we carry in our hearts and veins, sometimes desperate, sometimes clear like a beautiful song or like the sun. For an ecology of the soul. Between cosmic and internal turmoil, towards revolution or resurrection.

With blue Doctor Martens
A love song about the end of an illusion and all illusions. About thirty years and the things done and those still to be done. The chorus opens with the triptych "Space, Egypt, Battiato," which gives its name to the entire album. The song is ideally sung to the mother of one of the girls the artist loved most in his life. The celebrated Doctor Marteens, in this case blue, were the shoes he wore when he saw that girl for the first time.

Plastic
Given that even a small movement of our body raises serotonin levels in the blood and releases endorphins that shed light on things previously cast in the shadows, standing still never seems to be a good solution. "Muoviti," born from the artist's own experience, is an autobiographical piece that revolves around a hidden quote from William James, one of the fathers of American and empirical psychology: "It is impossible to remain sad while displaying the symptoms of cheerfulness."

Marylin Monroe
A piece on the history of Love. The History of Stories. The Tale of Tales. Dedicated to Marilyn Monroe, the Muse, the symbol of love and of tormented, idealized, unattainable, and excruciating Love, the archetype of the angel cast to Earth and forever broken in the arc of her extreme tension toward something unattainable. And it is almost entirely, as is often the case with many songs on the album, constructed from a web of quotes, this time all essentially inspired by and dedicated to the reading of a beautiful book of interviews by Paola Maugeri, a longtime face and voice of MTV and a renowned music journalist, which the artist received as a gift from her sister.

Get off
The oldest piece on the album, one of the first things Mattia Rame wrote, a true love song, conceived as a serenade, sung at the window to the woman who was his first true, incredible love, unforgettable and consigned to eternity. It's a song entirely from the heart, less mental and less intellectual.

To read
A song about the concept of reading. Reading in the broadest sense of the term: books, people, the world, oneself. The first verse is composed primarily of seemingly random book titles, simply placed next to each other, mixed with the artist's reflections. Like the fact that we often feel alone, even though we're not. Or that we don't realize that for some people we represent the Sun. "And I thought that, deep down, it's bastards to know this. Deep down, to remain at least a little innocent, to avoid being consumed by narcissism and not remain just Egomonsters, the only way to preserve a small space of innocence is to maintain a minimum of recklessness, of estrangement from and from one's own Beauty."

Like a dog
A song written within the confines of a small solitude. It's not a hymn to solitude; quite the opposite, in fact. Written in two minutes from start to finish, with a voice note during a hospital night, her voice subdued and monotonous. Together with producer Alessandro Giovannini and the other friends and colleagues who arranged and produced it, the artist then decided to leave this monotonous tone in her voice, ecstatic like an undefined vapor, subtly coloring it in the music with atmospheres inspired by "Drive," the famous Refn film starring Ryan Gosling, and a chorus in which the artist experiences a true moment of sublimation.

Sea Sea
Born as a tribute to the unforgettable Franco Battiato, who also powerfully influenced the Roman artist's lyrics, the song offers a musical experience imbued with literary references and profound reflections on our times. The song's chorus is, in fact, an explicit homage to the famous refrain of "Summer on a Solitary Beach," which blends with Mattia's lyrics, creating a unique atmosphere. The melody, inspired by it, along with the lyrics that blend the Maestro's words with the Roman artist's sentiments on the precariousness of our times, create a blend of emotion and reflection.

Frida Kahlo
It's the craziest song on the album. Mattia Rame's idea was to make a kitsch piece, a soul kraut rock. To truly blend electronica and vulgar Brit-rock à la Thin Lizzy, even though they're truly Irish and there's nothing Irish about it here. "That stuff with the big guitars, the drums pounding on the snare. In short, something out of the ordinary."

To the Souls
A short, dazed poem sung to the Moon and the Soul. “The measure of my true self, the closest thing to myself and my soul that I have ever written.” The refrain is a quote from Montale, full of surreal imagery mixed with Mattia Rame's highly personal twists, with the epic closing: “Life is the Way with a T: no exit. So open up, open up, open up, open up!”

This is the underlying concept that sums up all of Mattia's music and his research, and which concludes the journey told in this album. It is, in fact, like a birth, even his debut album, which arrived so late, because we are all called to be born: from the moment we are born until our death, which is presumably a new birth.