Memories of his Rome, at the dawn of a career yet to be invented. The future of music in a world dominated by technology in which men seem to have lost their bearings and hope in new generations. Under stage, singing the classics from his repertoire but also songs from the most recent discography, an audience of very young lowers the age average (while the kids from «Gen Z» they film every moment with their smartphone, analogue enthusiasts line up to get the vinyl cover autographed). The twenty-year-olds who sway, carried away by the melody, chant all the verses by heart: among them, a group of German fans who seem to have stepped out of the cover of a 1970s fashion magazine (the men in velvet jackets and scarves around their necks, the women in skimpy tops and flared trousers). He left on Friday 19 April fromAlcazar of Rome the tour «Cosmic» (like the new single produced by bassist and DJ Bruno Belissimo) by Alan Sorrentiicon of progressive rock who achieved success thanks to timeless hits with a danceable rhythm such as Stars sons And You are the only woman for me: first stop on a journey that will touch Italy, especially the south.
«Today walking along the river at night would be impossible…»
The live show in the capital sounds a bit like the closing the circlethe return to Trastevere where in the Seventies Sorrenti (half Neapolitan, half Welsh) arrived with a suitcase full of dreams. He was thinking of signing up for the Experimental cinematography centre (“I wanted to be a director”), but music – which in that period was going through a phase of extraordinary creative fervor – overwhelmed him: “It was the most immediate way of expressing oneself.” In Rome the artist recognizes the inclusive spirit, the «ability to welcome everyone with open arms», an even more marked characteristic in the historic district overflowing with life at the beginning of his career: «Andy Warhol used to come there, at the time I frequented a painter who told me about Greenwich Village and the beat generation… In the square of Santa Maria in Trastevere you could still park the car, I left the van there when I came to play… In recent days I took the band for a tour and explained to the guys that Trastevere has changed a lot, but still retains its effervescence… Of course, now it would be unthinkable to take a walk at night on the banks of the river…”.
«The impact of artificial intelligence depends only on us»
If in the seventies the «Children of the stars» were the dreamers which expressed i aesthetic changes And of custom taking place in society, Sorrenti believes that i millennials they are so to the nth degree but with a less utopian and more concrete approach: «They are the protagonists of a revolution, perhaps not very visible, but of fundamental importance for the protection of the environment». From the «Fridays for future» movement to the challenges ofartificial intelligencewhich «is already among us» and whose impact will depend on the data we deliver to technology: «We are at a crossroads, we must choose whether to continue to convey violence and money, the values that unfortunately seem to prevail today, or take another path … It depends only on us…”.
Also on stage is Tony Esposito
In the sold-out evening, another milestone of the Italian scene of the Seventies takes to the stage, with whom Sorrenti shares his Neapolitan origins and arrival in Rome, Tony Espositowhich with its percussion gives an extra touch of magic to You are the only woman for me, the winning song of the Festivalbar in 1979. The room goes crazy in the riot of lit screens, while a shower of stars envelops the audience who repeatedly urges: «If you don’t sing the last one, we won’t leave». But Sorrenti, wrapped in a shirt with two blue snakes drawn that seem to be moving in their coils, is already behind the scenes: behind him he left the cosmic wake who has always accompanied him, the eternal boy of the seventies.
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