(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 06 - The pandemic and the lockdown have forced us to look inside ourselves, to question ourselves about the meaning of life.
"And we realized how a tiny cellular entity was enough to bring us to our knees, we who we considered invincible, and make us realize that we are not masters of anything".
And from there, Fiorella Mannoia started to build her new album, for which she chose the title Padroni di niente (CD already available, vinyl from 20 November, for Sony Music).
"They are songs from that moment, but with timeless universal concepts".
"A record conceived during the first lockdown - says the singer in zoom link -, from the chats with Amara (author of Che sia benedetta for her, brought to the Sanremo festival in 2017). When our thoughts flew high and we wondered where we were going, about the sense that everything we were experiencing had. There was talk of a new Humanism, of the need to put man back at the center. And instead, when it reopens, everything is back as before if not worse ".
The album, anticipated by the single Who knows where unacanzone comes from, written for Fiorella by Ultimo, responds in all its aspects to a single need: to go to the essential.
"It's a thin, well-played album, without electronics. With only eight pieces, because it's not time to put in things that you aren't convinced", explains Fiorella Mannoia.
In May, Fiorella plans to bring the album intour to theaters with 11 dates already scheduled.
"Soon we will say how the live will be. But we have to start again because this is the only way to help show workers. Maybe even with even more sparse productions, but start again. We have to put the car back in motion, otherwise it will be a disaster".
Fiorella Mannoiasi also focuses on the need to intervene in a more concrete way for the workers who have been standing still for months.
"We artists can put funds out of our own pockets, but we must ask the government that the workers be protected. We are as essential as bread is".
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