Jack Savoretti, 'Europiana' soundtrack of the summer

(ANSA) - MILAN, JUN 16 - The first kiss, the first ride in a motorbike, the first dance on a table: celebrates the beautiful summer of the 'Europiana' boys, the new album by Jack Savoretti, which is also and above all a "letter d 'love for European music over the last 50 years "as the English artist tells us from his country house in England. "I don't think I would have made this album without the year we had - admits Jack in perfect Italian thanks to his father and childhood in our country - it's the result of the lockdown, of the time I had to be with our thoughts, in which I had to find a form of escapism, a way to travel by closing your eyes and creating music ". It was like this that "I looked for the soundtrack for the holiday that I couldn't have,for me and my family I created 'Europiana', which is the sound developed from the encounter between American and European music in the '70s ".

    Rediscovering artists such as Julio Iglesias and Patty Pravo, Savoretti realized that without them there would be neither Abba nor Daft Punk and, to get to today, DuaLipa or The Weeknd. They are sounds that, in a certain way, "lightly celebrate how connected America and Europe are", especially important at a time like this in which "we have come out of the Trump era and Brexit made to divide". Jack, on the other hand, with this album that he doesn't like to call concept but is fundamentally, in its being "the soundtrack of a film made, that of my and your youth and summer holidays", wants to send a message of "hope". It is no coincidence that the new work, recorded at Abbey Road Studios between one lock and another, opens and closes with the voice of his children and their friends. "I wanted to end the album with a sense of despair, like a purpose - he says about 'War of words' - for my children, to keep in mind when they look forward ".

    The album, due out on June 25, was anticipated by the single "Who's Hurting Who" starring Nile Rodgers. (HANDLE).