A double album that sc hizz now ranks second in sales in itself is unusual. If not then this disc is a greatest hits or otherwise blatantly commercial operation, it starts to become suspicious. So, what's behind the resounding success of the new Verdena? Hard to say. Should ask the hundreds of people who have already bought tickets for two concerts Urban will take the band from Bergamo Perugia Saturday and Sunday. Dates sold out long ago, like many of the tour.
"There was never such a thing happened," said Alberto Ferrari, singer and guitarist of the band. "Our records are entered more or less always in the top ten, but never in the first three. Never second, ever so high for so long. I just can not understand it, the mechanism is tripped. All I know is that there is a casino and leisure. As I am glad that album after album gaining the respect of critics. At first they said that did not even know play, now all to applaud. "
Moreover Verdena growth over the years is evident. But the decision to make twenty-seven pieces in the new album Wow has displaced many. How did you get?
"Look, it's a bit 'weird. We write a lot. At one point the pieces were ninety. And we wanted to keep track of. Then, even under the pressures of those around us, we, we decided to record some thirty. But we were loyal to all, and we have kept. We also tried to put up ladders with fifteen or sixteen different tracks, but did not work. The record stands as well. It is almost unique, a kind of super-matryoshka ".
At Universal, however, have not jumped for joy.
"No. The war lasted for two hard weeks. At the beginning c'avevano said that the leaders were not at all agree, and have tried to make us change our mind. Then, after listening listening, they also realized that we were right. "
Returning to the reasons of your boom, there is also the fact that you are one of the few rockers of your generation? In recent years there has been all this flowering of songwriters, the infamous Zero leverage the years, but little real rock.
"I never thought c'avevo, but in fact there are not many that have emerged. And to say that I think there are many bands that rocked out, here in Bergamo, is full. Get the spreads are very strong. But do not make the leap. "
When you started you were very young. And your musical culture, inevitably, limited. What were the musicians who v'hanno open new horizons? You said that you recently heard a lot of the Beach Boys, and in effect Wow is easy to find echoes of Wilsonian.
"Yes, this album Wilson was a new interpretation. For some time I did not make a discovery that excites me so. In general, Requiem (the penultimate album, dated 2007, ed ) in here we heard a lot Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, a lot of jazz. And the Queen. We wanted to throw up new stuff, that we felt we had assimilated too young. And we realized that there is still a lot of music we like, around. "
And as to how to dial? Once beyond the verse-chorus-verse formuletta was wrong, now it's all another story.
"Absolutely. We are changing bad. We try always new arrangements and structures. The choruses can not even find them at most. Indeed, the rules give me more trouble. The only thing that remains is the melody. From that I am not taken down. They will all I listened to the Beatles as a child. But who knows, maybe one day we will make a record without a trace of melody. Type the Pantera. Or the Black Flag ".
But he says with a laugh.
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