Laszlo De Simone’s very long year is made of memories and love

«Che who lives forever lives for love”, sings the Turin composer and songwriter Andrea Laszlo De Simone. His voice is feeble and touches the heart in “Pienamente”, a song taken from the latest album “Una Lunghissima Ombra” published in October 2025, one of the most beautiful Italian albums of the year and above all among the most appreciated abroad, obviously in France, the country of choice for De Simone who in 2024 at the Olympia in Paris received the prestigious César Award for the best original music with the film “Le Règne Animal” by Thomas Cailley. Certainly this sensitive and inspired artist who continues to go against the grain, a shy and reserved character of musical and artistic Turin, deserves to be indicated as the best composer and musician of 2025. «I am, have been and will always remain shy – he wrote in a letter published by Republic where he commented on the victory, two years ago, of the César Award – a shy and daring man, it is evident, but still shy and reserved. On the other hand, I was born and raised in Turin, a city chosen by my parents at the end of 1980 precisely for its elegance and its ability to carry out cultural revolutions without the need to shout it from the rooftops.” It is a distinctive trait that runs through all his works, including the latest, where jewels such as “Gliding on the rays of the sun” or “What I once was” shine with an always subdued light. Listening in depth to Andrea Laszlo De Simone one recognizes his absolute uniqueness and originality, however in this elusive sea of ​​notes, one can perceive the waves of Maurice Ravel, Arvo Pärt, Nino Rota, Gino Paoli and Fabrizio De André. «I love making music, indeed, I live to make music», says the singer-songwriter who has his base in Turin, the Ecce Homo Studio and The Goodness Factory which supports him for management and artistic production. To present “Una Lunghissima Ombra” (“respecting its intimate nature”), “a geodesic dome with spatialized audio was set up, a “bubble” place in which one could hide away and which at the same time could represent the isolation to which intrusive thoughts lead, the main theme of the album».

Intimate and immersive listening is the most appropriate way to approach De Simone’s music. All the events organized for Italy were sold out, including obviously the three dates in Turin at the Cinema Massimo. Other events are scheduled in cinemas in January, in Taranto, Palermo, Barcelona, ​​and then close in February in Foligno. The album “Una Lunghissima Ombra” is in fact mainly a visual poem composed of filmic paintings that depict natural environments and urban contexts. The Turin singer-songwriter continues this indefinable and indecipherable artistic path with his “contagious calm”, as his musician friend and producer Ale Bavo (collaborator of Samuel Romano and many other important Italian artists) defined it, “he seems alive on a moon of the solar system, far from the chaos of the spotlight, the deadlines, the competition”. The love of music is what drives this artist. There are no compromises. «This passion has led me to touch almost every aspect of a branch of culture that has been codified for a very long time now as the world of entertainment rather than as a world of the soul or of expression and this coding actually makes me and people like me, that is, not very inclined towards the show, cameras and numbers, fundamentally unfit to inhabit it». The musical house that he lives with joy and pride has solid foundations in the territory: his closest collaborators live and work in Piedmont, from Alessandro “Tato” Filipazzi, from Cuneo, (sound engineer and sound engineer who also collaborates with Marlene Kuntz and Lucio Corsi) to Riccardo Parravicini, from Dronero, sound engineer in his Rima Maia studio at the entrance to Val Maira, where he oversaw the productions of artists such as Salmo, Niccolò Fabi and Willie Peyote.