ROME, 23 JUN – “A moral requirement. A duty”. First of all towards himself. This was the push that led Alex Britti, the musician Alex Britti, to realize a project that had always been brewing: to publish an instrumental record, “Mojo”, out on July 1st (It.Pop distr. Believe). The first of his career, exactly 30 years after his recording debut with the album that bore his name. “The question is not why I did it, but why I waited so long – says the artist in the morning peace of the Casa del Jazz in Rome, where he will be in concert on Saturday -. There were artistic bonds, with the majors I never could: they aim for the immediate, for profit. More and more often they create blender cases and not artists ”, he says, removing a few pebbles from his shoe, who has already had his own independent label for some time. “It’s cool to have a million views, but it’s even cooler to have 200,000 views today, a year from now, five years from now. You don’t see who really wins by the number of followers but by whom you still hum after 10 years “. Returning to the record, “it wasn’t easy because if you’re a songwriter by trade, it’s not that easy to switch. After years I felt it as a moral requirement, as a duty “. And he claims an identity and a change in his being a musician: “If I am now this is useless forcing myself to be something else”. To facilitate the publication of Mojo is also “the confusion that exists in the world, the cultural and technological change that has been going on for at least 20 years. Many barriers have fallen, there is talk of fluidity everywhere and in this moment everything is valid. And then I make a record as I like and that’s it ”. Always appreciated bluesman, in Italy but also abroad, the almost 54-year-old Roman in the new album blends his rhythmic and harmonic sensitivity with the unmistakable style and uniqueness of the sound of his guitar. He takes his cue from the blues, but draws heavily from any genre both past and present, ranging from traditional to more experimental sounds: “a melting pot of fluidity. Mojo is a record with different sounds that I would enclose in ‘blues and surroundings’ even if there is no lack of jazz, funk and rock ”. (HANDLE).
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