Michele Bravi doesn’t stop at the surface. To understand his way of seeing things, a lengthy explanation of the title of the new album “You see when you close your eyes” which will be released on Friday would be enough. In short, we should start from a title that he discarded, palinopsia. «I rediscovered the essays of neurologist Oliver Sacks and I came across that term: it indicates the images that remain imprinted after closing the eyes, and Sacks reads it as a disorder, an attempt to repeat perception. Ultimately it’s like art that tries to crystallize life. Every song on the album comes from the imagination seen as a link between us and reality: here’s the concept.”
The album arrives three years after «The geography of the dark»: «I’m not famous for being quick and what’s more I had an artistic block. For 2 years I sat in front of a piano and it didn’t happenulla. I was convinced I couldn’t say anything anymore.” The unblocking came thanks to the wise man «The artist’s way» by Julia Cameron. «A writer friend recommended it to me: it’s a sort of course to reconnect with your inner artist in 12 weeks. So between letters written to myself and identifying with other professions I unblocked myself.”
In music there is no hunt for the trendy sound, despite Bravi having worked with producers linked to the trap and urban world: «I tried an almost cinematic approach, a rarefied sound to leave room for the listener’s imagination.” Bravi is often associated with songs with easy tears. «I like it when they consider me a snobbish and decadent poet, when they tell me “make us cry”: this is how “French Bad mood” was born the idea of the duet with Carla Bruni. But I also have another side that ended up in “Italian Humor”: I laugh if I hear a raspberry or the word cu…”.
He was 19 when he won “The of my record. Today, when kids who participate in a talent show are more exposed, the words and tone used with them are even more important.”
