Alex Britti, I'm finally free to make an instrumental album

(ANSA) - ROME, JUNE 23 - "A moral requirement. A duty".

   First of all towards himself.

This was the push that led Alex Britti, the musician Alex Britti, to carry out a project he had always had: to publish an instrumental disc, "Mojo", to be released on July 1st (It.Pop distr.

   Believe).

The first of his career, exactly 30 years after his recording debut with the album that bore his name.

   "The question is not why I did it, but why I waited so long - says the artist in the morning peace of the Casa del Jazz in Rome, where he will be in concert on Saturday -. There were artistic bonds, with the majors I would never have been able to: they aim for the immediate, for profit. More and more often they create blender cases and not artists ", he says, taking off a few pebbles from his shoe, who has already had his own independent label for some time.

"It's cool to have a million views, but it's even cooler to have 200,000 today, in a year, five years from now. You don't see who really wins by the number of followers but who still hums after 10 years".

Returning to the record, "it was not easy because if you are a singer-songwriter by trade it is not so easy to switch. After years I felt it as a moral need,

as a duty ". And he claims an identity and a change in his being a musician:" If I am now this is useless forcing myself to be something else. " cultural and technological in progress for at least 20 years.

Many barriers have fallen, there is talk of fluidity everywhere and in this moment everything is valid.

And then I make a record as I think it is ".

we talk about fluidity everywhere and in this moment everything is valid.

And then I make a record as I think it is ".

we talk about fluidity everywhere and in this moment everything is valid.

And then I make a record as I think it is ".

    Always appreciated bluesman, in Italy but also abroad, the almost 54-year-old Roman in the new album blends his rhythmic and harmonic sensitivity with the unmistakable style and uniqueness of his guitar sound.

It takes its cue from the blues, but draws heavily from any genre both past and present, ranging from traditional sounds to the more experimental ones: "unmelting pot of fluidity. Mojo is a record with different sounds that I would enclose in 'blues and surroundings' even if not jazz, funk and rock are missing ".

(HANDLE).