“Saints and Heroes” is the new single from the Apulian Matteo Palermo, originally from Palo del Colle. Distributed by Altafonte Italy For Indigo Recordsis available on radio and on all digital platforms from Friday 31 May 2024.
The song comes from a melancholy guitar arpeggio that wants to tell an important personal story, a twist in life that changes and overturns everything, even what happened the day before.
Each of us experiences losses. This song tells of a particular loss for Matteo, that of his guitar teacher, Nicola Lopez. After the first years of teaching music, Matteo and Nicola overcome the simple relationship of teacher/student and become friends until they even play together in a Gipsy Jazz project. Sharing music becomes the beacon of their friendship. Unfortunately, at just 38 years of age, Nicola passed away prematurely due to a serious illness.
“Saints and Heroes”, it is intended to be a gesture of love and gratitude towards one’s Master. Nicola would have turned 50 this year, on May 27th. «My whole life has changed, taking a clear and clear direction, since I started studying music with Nicola, it wasn’t a simple educational path, of discipline, it was a life path. Nicola didn’t just teach me how to play the guitar well, he opened up perspectives for me that, as a shy and withdrawn teenager that I was, I couldn’t even remotely imagine existed. Today I am the man I have become, thanks to Music and Nicola, in everything I do, from work, to family, to social commitment, to music. In an extremely individualistic and narcissistic society I want to say “Thank you Nicola”, because the gift he gave me is infinite and apart from this song I will try every day of my life to give credit to this gift of his.”
«In the city where I live and have always lived, Palo del Colle (Bari), there have been several stories of truly special people, who passed away prematurely and who had dedicated their lives to music, I think of the great Vittorio Bari, or to the Christian faith, I am thinking of the Santa Scorese femicide case. Stories of people who marked the lives of those who knew them, as Nicola did with me.”
The main theme introduced by Mimmo Capobianco’s moog is intertwined with ethereal sounds of the first seconds of the song where the artist recounts the moments before his death and separation and then moves towards an opening of the song entrusted to the groove of drums and bass. After a special characterized by 32nd incisors on the cymbals in which the song stops for a moment, it comes to an end with an increasingly greater opening and Matteo’s overdriven guitars and then definitively closes with a variation of the theme.
