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Jack Savoretti, 'Europiana' soundtrack of the summer

2021-06-20T23:26:14.896Z


"My love letter to European music of the last 50 years" (ANSA) MILAN - The first kiss, the first ride on a scooter, 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 "love letter to music of 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 perf


MILAN - The first kiss, the first ride on a scooter, 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 "love letter to music of 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 Ligurian father and childhood in our country - it's the result of the lockdown, of the time we had to be with our thoughts, in which I had to find a form of escapism, a way to travel by closing my eyes and creating music ".

So it was that "I looked for the soundtrack for the vacation 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 like Julio Iglesias and Patty Pravo, Savoretti realized that without them there would be neither Abba nor Daft Punk and, to get to today, Dua Lipa or The Weeknd. They are sounds that, in a certain way, "lightly celebrate how connected America and Europe are", especially important in a moment 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 basically it is, in its being "the soundtrack of a film never 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 lockdown and another, opens and closes with the voice of his children and their friends. "I wanted to end the album with a sense of hope, as a purpose - he says about 'War of words' - for my children, to keep in mind when they look forward".- for my children, to keep in mind when looking forward ".- for my children, to keep in mind when looking forward ".

The album, which will be released on June 25, was preceded by the single "Who's Hurting Who" with Nile Rodgers. "He has a lot to do with the idea of ​​European music transformed from American music and gave me - he comments today - the courage to follow this concept, this desire to live, to romanticism, to celebrate". But it is with "More than Ever" that Savoretti explicitly declares his total adherence to this inspiration: "In this song - he explains - it is I who realize that my summer memories are valid, I think back to the trips as a kid I do today with my children, because this year has really allowed us to re-evaluate what we took for granted. " And he spent it with his family, which expanded three months ago with the birth of a girl, the third of his children.And he spent it thinking about what was really important, starting from his Ligurian roots, so much so that he wanted to present the album in Portofino, but then the restrictions linked to the covid prevented him from doing so. The choice of the famous Ligurian town was not the habit of an English artist, but the place where his grandparents, he was a partisan leader and she was displaced, spent the Second World War a few hundred meters away without yet knowing each other. The place where - says Jack - he was baptized, where everyone knows him and where he feels at home.but the place where his grandparents, he was a partisan leader and she was displaced, spent the Second World War a few hundred meters away without yet knowing each other. The place where - says Jack - he was baptized, where everyone knows him and where he feels at home.but the place where his grandparents, he was a partisan leader and she was displaced, spent the Second World War a few hundred meters away without yet knowing each other. The place where - says Jack - he was baptized, where everyone knows him and where he feels at home.

"I didn't want to exploit this gem, I just wanted to be there, but it has more to do with my nostalgia than with the album." A love for Italy that in the most acute phases of the pandemic led him to write together with the fans the solidarity song "All will go well" and which today pushes him to start his new tour from our country.

Source: ansa

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