Published in The New Country January 13, 2011
music from Salento / Interview with Lucia Manca
Dicembrino After the concert live on stage at the Theatre Novoli and the debut of Bari in Puglia Sound, flanked by his balanced Lucia Manca band made up of Michael Russo (guitar), Mauro Ingrosso (bass) and Andrea Rizzo (drums ) , continues to promote her first single: ancient dream, a song from the new album currently in production with the artistic collaboration of Cloud Cult singer-songwriter and guitarist Amor Fou.
Suspended are the sonic dimensions that accommodate the hand of superfine young singer Lucia Manca, suspended between infused with catchy melodies and detailed wrap-around effects and delicate rhythmic openings. How to chime in an intimate, sweet is the music that unfolds when opened the small box, it emerge, supported by a lively writing and melancholy, evocative music that enchants the soul so dreamy dreamer the attentive listener. fictional story built on thoughts / desires change and chase back and forth between ancient dream and reality, individual, leading to a graceful way to spellbound I fantasize among their memories.
closed casket the spell wears off.
How and how long did you approach music?
Music has always been part of my life, there was a special occasion that prompted me to start, but since childhood has always been a natural and spontaneous, a necessity ... I have entrusted to you, how to make a leap in the dark ... I was abandoned. Growing up I loved her more and more especially when I started writing. It 's wonderful to realize how some of the melodies that come to your head you suggest many images and hence the sequence of words.
What is it about you and what you live in your lyrics?
Many of my songs are odes to love, but sad at the same time warm and joyous, some speak to me of my confused desires, what I love, because each M'innamoro easily thing and I love to observe everything. Many of my lyrics have a fantastic tone and fabulatorio, I write what surrounds me, I create a reality all around me, even giving vent to my imagination.
What are your musical patterns?
I grew up listening to the songwriters of the '60s, Tenco, Lauzi, Bindi, Ciampi, Lazarev ...
'm also related to more current artists and bands such as Beach House , Joanna Newsom, Fleet Foxes, Sufjan Stevens .
How much influence they have on your music?
I think the names mentioned above and also other have contributed in some way to define my artistic profile. Difficult to understand how and how much they influenced me, it's all in a big pot from where it will automatically draw inspiration.
Like the ancient poetry, especially the sonnets of Shakespeare and Petrarch. French literature 800 poems by Alphonse de Lamartine, Alfred de Vicny and Charles Baudelaire. I also read many novels and stories written for children.
Trai cue from them?
No, or at least not directly.
There are special places where you create your songs?
No, I do not have details of places, I often happen to have some ideas in the car alone, or write anywhere in the house.
I have not a first album, "4 years ago I made a little demo with my first 3 songs. Unlikely to be replayed because of the many things that now I feel very far away. I was 20 and my ideas were far less clear, but despite this, remember not to have had some bad reviews. My first album will be released this year with the artistic production of Cloud Cult.
In old dream, and in the Far Enchantment shows a condition of suffering / neglect, this is referred to a broken love affair or conceals a hidden meaning?
are often seduced by the tragedy of love, old and Incanto Dream express this condition even though in two different contexts of a love affair. Far instead represents my perception of the past that is becoming increasingly blurred over the years.
The figure of the swan and refers to Greek mythology is the nature of the alchemical androgynous body, as in the charm what is the meaning of the figure of the white swan?
Yes I thought about Zeus and Leda, but in this case is a different story, my swan is a woman who tricked a man enchanted by holding it away from the woman he loved.
Sounds Puglia is a beautiful reality that maybe waiting a long time. I think the music you want to have a more important role also in terms of employment. An engineer, a manager, a musician can be said to have a "real job", not only the worker of big business or the employee of items.
No, I think so far Puglia Sounds has helped the visibility and promotion of various artists of Puglia, this means also feed their economy. I look wasted in all this.
If there are any connivance with political parties and associations of worship, it is easier for an artist stand out?
Yes, certainly it is easier to focus on the target to which it is addressed, at least with the cultural associations.
Do you think it intends to propose at all costs "quality music for so-called gourmets" sometimes does not create the music "fashionable" but no actual value?
Yes, in these cases is easily perceived in doing so forcing with too built.
you think in the diverse musical landscape of Salento what are the new artists?
Pugliese's music scene is very diverse and interesting for several years now. I think there is a character quite exotic. Personally I respect the artists are: Matilde Davoli and Populous (with Girl With The Gun), George Tuma, Tobia Lamare & the Sellers and Ivan Davoli (Gianluca De Rubertis).
What is for you elegance in music and life?
The simplicity of the show as it is.
Giuseppe Arnesano
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