(Adnkronos) - Ospite dell’Adnkronos, il leader dei Tiromancino, parla del nuovo singolo ‘Puntofermo’ e ripercorre i momenti significativi della sua carriera.
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00:04 The ups and downs of life, which are always there, but with two big stopping points.
00:08 From the relationship with the father, still a lighthouse, to the one with the daughter, made of a beautiful dialogue and confrontation.
00:14 Then of course there is the music, the beautiful one, which lasts forever, and a possible return to Sanremo despite the strip, to quote him.
00:21 Finally, the love for cinema and the horror genre.
00:23 Federico Zampaglione, frontman of Tiro Mancino, tells the story of N-Chronos on the occasion of the release of the new single "Punto Fermo",
00:30 retracing his artistic career and reflecting on many private moments.
00:35 The song has just been released and reflects on the time we are living and on the importance of finding something solid to cling to,
00:42 which can offer refuge from daily storms. And of Zampaglione's stopping points, he has more than one.
00:47 The stopping point is certainly art in general, music, cinema, everything that allows me to tell myself
00:57 and share certain feelings and moods with others.
01:01 I know that whatever happens to me, I can tell it, I can share it in some way.
01:11 And this saves me from times of bad moods, it has happened to me to have terrible moments from a personal point of view.
01:23 And paradoxically, those have also become periods in which I have written the best things.
01:31 Or sometimes a beautiful song is born from a great pain.
01:36 So I see art as a possibility, as an anchor.
01:41 And then my family, my wife, my daughter, my father, my extended family in general,
01:50 which is a protection, a place where I can really be myself.
01:55 And therefore, in defense, even having an extended family is not an easy operation.
02:04 You have to be very careful, you have to walk sometimes on ...
02:09 You know, sometimes you feel like an elephant in the glassworks.
02:14 So it took a long way to get to this, or to raise my daughter without doing what she knows everything,
02:24 that she has to teach her things, but also respecting all her needs,
02:30 her way of seeing life that exists today.
02:34 So the strong point, however, you have to nurture it, you have to cure it, you have to love it a bit and defend it from all the storms.
02:42 Over 30 years of career with songs like "La Descrizione di un Attimo", "Due Destini", "Per me è importante",
02:48 which made the history of Italian music.
02:50 But there are three most significant moments of his artistic career.
02:54 You know, there have been many episodes.
03:00 "La Descrizione di un Attimo" was certainly a record that changed our lives.
03:05 Because from there we went from the very indie dimension of a group that hoped to do that job,
03:12 to a national reality, and from there I started to understand that we had done it in some way.
03:23 So it's a very important record for the success it had and for everything it has generated.
03:31 Then, inside, there was a record in 2010, then there were other records of great success.
03:37 But in this case I want to talk about a record that was a great failure instead, in 2010,
03:44 where I was convinced that this record would go well, I had recorded it in America, and it was a total failure.
03:51 But that record made me reflect a lot, it made me understand that nothing is taken for granted,
03:59 that you can also be in a position of great favor at that moment,
04:05 but it is not said that things continue to go well.
04:09 Everything is not in some way controllable.
04:13 Sometimes in life you have to accept that when you do a certain type of work,
04:18 that you do something you believe in a lot and it doesn't work out.
04:21 And you can't make a drama out of it, you have to get your hands dirty, maybe even self-criticism.
04:27 Probably my biggest mistake there was to be sure that the record would have gone well.
04:34 And then I could put a record from 2014 instead, which was "Indagine su un sentimento",
04:42 which was a record that came after a very difficult, terrible personal life period,
04:51 in many ways, in which I, among other things, withdrew from music.
04:57 Because after that record, that great success, I said to myself, I'm withdrawing,
05:01 and I'm only going to be a director.
05:04 And so for four years I only did the director.
05:07 But then, in a moment of great discomfort, my mother was dead,
05:15 I no longer understood what was actually happening in my life.
05:20 Music knocked on my door again and gave me back many free songs,
05:25 "Imagini che lasciano il segno".
05:27 From there it started as a second time in my life,
05:30 from the ashes of what had happened before.
05:33 So I would put these records, a great success, a great failure, a renaissance record.
05:40 And on Sanremo the artist does not close the door to a possible return.
05:44 Sanremo, I tell you the truth, I watch it with great fun.
05:50 I can't wait to start, I see myself every night with friends, we buy drinks,
05:57 I even buy the trumpet, the stadium one, the things.
06:01 I live it intensely like this.
06:04 But Sanremo, from an emotional point of view, for those who then go on that stage,
06:10 it is a very invasive experience.
06:15 You have to be able to manage it emotionally, because in the meantime there is a race.
06:21 It is a situation where you become small, you do not control anything.
06:27 It is a great mechanism that moves around you, among other things a mechanism
06:32 very connected to television, to listening, to social networks.
06:36 So you have to be able to make sure that all these things that surround you
06:43 do not influence negatively your emotionality.
06:49 I'm not sure I'm able to manage this thing emotionally in the best way.
06:58 I see very young guys who grew up in the era of talent, so the idea of associating
07:04 the race with music is normal.
07:07 The fact of singing on television is normal.
07:10 I, a bit of the old guard, that stage puts me a lot of agitation.
07:16 So I don't know, for example, how I could sing.
07:20 A strong emotional blow could come to me and I would find myself there with my throat closed,
07:27 which is so bad.
07:29 I could do it, easily.
07:31 I could find myself in trouble.
07:35 So the thing I tell myself every year, this year in my opinion is back the year
07:41 in which it would be nice to come to Sanremo.
07:44 And this is usually something I do at the beginning of the summer.
07:48 It would be nice because maybe I write a piece and I'll imagine it there.
07:52 Then already in September it's changed.
07:55 But we wait, we wait, we see, this year maybe not, then we'll think about it again.
08:01 So I have a lot of respect, I think they created a festival that involved all the young people,
08:07 something that maybe so much has never been seen, transgeneration.
08:13 But unfortunately I have a very emotional sphere, I have to deal with my being like this.
08:21 I also talked to other colleagues who have this dimension, a bit far from the cameras,
08:28 and there is a bit of insecurity.
08:33 And you don't exclude it?
08:35 I don't exclude the return, to quote a song we wrote with Maestro Galifani.
08:42 There is also the cinema and the great passion for the horror genre.
08:45 I'm looking for two completely different things.
08:48 In music I'm looking for things that have to do with my most sentimental part,
08:55 with my most solar part, also romantic, poetic.
09:02 This is what I'm looking for in music, in everything that revolves around it.
09:06 So also a soft sound that envelops you, that makes you dream a little.
09:11 In the cinema it comes out of a side so far from all this,
09:18 that is, the exact opposite of all this.
09:21 So I'm looking for dark, distressing, terrifying, sometimes shocking atmospheres.
09:29 I tried to understand why this thing happens to me, but I didn't succeed.
09:37 They are two parts of me.
09:43 So, based on what my wife tells me, for example, she says,
09:48 "When you make films, I can't stand you, because I become a coward, I become a bit obsessive."
09:54 And then, going to look for these worlds related to fear, related to anguish,
10:00 I probably feel it too, I get very deep, I sleep badly, I sleep little.
10:06 But it's a research that I'm very passionate about.
10:09 I grew up with all the Italian genre cinema, reading Edgar Allan Poe,
10:15 so it's a great passion.
10:17 I think, in a way, even if I don't know how to explain to myself why this thing happens,
10:23 simply, maybe I gave voice to a dark side.
10:27 But in the end, by doing this, I always manage to do something, being inspired.
10:35 I mean, I don't necessarily have to make a record.
10:37 If I don't have the idea, I start making a movie, maybe.
10:41 And this makes me feel honest with the audience,
10:45 because I never do things because I have to do them.
10:48 Finally, a balance on private life.
10:51 I'm happy, I think I'm living the best moment of my life.
10:54 If I were given the opportunity to stop for a moment, yes, I would stop here.
11:01 I would say, "I want to stay here."
11:03 Because there is a greater awareness, there is the pleasure of seeing my daughter become a woman,
11:11 and above all, I no longer suffer from a whole series of things that made me suffer in the past.
11:19 I mean, I learned to take things, even with a little philosophy, to let go, sometimes.
11:26 Not necessarily wanting to keep something, someone, not necessarily wanting to achieve a result.
11:35 I enjoy life a little, I learned to enjoy life for what it is.
11:39 All the stuff that has to change your mood, that has to put you in a bad mood,
11:45 that in the past I didn't like very much, I don't let it happen anymore.
11:51 I learned to keep my distance.
11:54 And this makes me live much better.
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