The new album by Caparezza, the sixth of his career is called Museica and contains the souls of music and the museum. 19 songs, 19 songs that in one way or another, covertly or explicitly, are inspired by as many pictorial works
MILAN – The album, recorded in Molfetta, Caparezza’s birthplace and mixed in Los Angeles (by the multi-noble Chris Lord Alge) and as if it were a sort of “first” new album. An album inspired by the world of art, the audio guide of the artist’s visions on display. Each piece of “Museica” is inspired by a pictorial work that becomes a pretext for developing a concept. Even the cover itself is a small work of art, specially made by Domenico dell’Osso. The title of the album is the result of a cross between the words ‘music’ (being an album), ‘museum’ (since each song is inspired by an opera) and ‘sei’ (like the sixth album of the Apulian artist).
In our photogallery we have decided to put the works of art that inspired the 19 songs of the new Caparezza album. THE SONGS – The album, published by Universal Music Italia and released on April 22nd and to launch it, Caparezza will be on tour throughout the summer, from Naples to Turin, from Genoa to Palermo until the last date in Cagliari, on the 30th August. There is no track that can represent the entire disc because there is no painting that can represent the entire gallery. In practice, this album, rather than listened to, should be visited, just like a museum.
The first piece Song at the entrance , and the song with which Caparezza ideally entertains the queue waiting to enter the museum; You (portrait) will be right in the sense of retracting one’s political beliefs, “this is madness, or it is the kiss between Leonid Brezhnev and Erich Honecker painted by Dmitri Vrubel on the Berlin wall”. In the third piece, Mica Van Gogh is clear and the pictorial reference, while the fourth track I cannot afford it, «And inspired by the ‘Three Studies of Lucian Freud’, a triptych by the Irish painter Francis Bacon. It is one of the most expensive works in history (bought up in an auction with an offer of over 140 million dollars) which gave me the opportunity to dissect the most pronounced phrase of recent years (for free) ». The fifth song Sons of art speaks exactly of them «in general they are envied, recommended and disputed. I have ennobled them by telling the ruthless dark side of their famous parents. Francisco Goya’s painting has an eloquent title: ‘Saturn devouring his children’ ». Then there is However Dada , a tribute to Duchamp who together with other artists in 1916 found himself at the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich and destroyed art. Giotto Beatand instead a veiled reference to Giotto’s “Coretti”, which Caparezza compares to the “ye-ye” of the 1960s and the economic boom. Cover , the eighth song is explained to us like this: «There are many artists who have allowed their works to become album covers. Warhol’s banana on the Velvet Underground album was the big bang of my lysergic journey through the most famous covers of all time ». The middle track marks a small change of course, as it is the first ballad of the Apulian rapper, China Town «and a love song for ink and writing. It stands there, black on white, like Malevich’s “Black Square” ».
The tenth song, Canzone a metaand a praise of incompleteness and draws inspiration from all the works left halfway, such as William Buss’s ‘Dickens Dream’. Teste di Modi , sings the story of 3 boys who sculpt a fake Modigliani in Livorno in 1984, mistaken for authentic by world critics. The painting from which Caparezza draws inspiration is in fact by a famous forger: Elmyr de Hory. Argenti lives and instead an invective in favor of Filippo Argenti, Dante’s neighbor illustrated several times in the Divine Comedy by Gustavo Dore. I buy Horrorinstead he is inspired by Fontana and his quartered canvases, which become the pretext to tell the morbid attention of anyone towards crime news. The Buy Horror evaluates your body and pays it the most. The fourteenth song is called Kitaro , and Cparezza explains it to us like this: «this song is first of all a cover. It is the revisited theme song of ‘Ge ge ge no Kitaro’, a very popular cartoon in Japan and almost unknown in Italy. Being from ’73 I could not snub the Japanese animated drawing and I chose to pay homage to it through the work of Shigeru Mizuki, “Hiratsuka”. ”
From Japan to Italy, with the song Too political, or the accusation with which the artist is often accused. He jokes about it and looks at ‘The fourth state’ by Giuseppe Pellizza da Volpedo. The improvised and ostentatious criticism is the real target of Sfogati , «introduced by Vasco and inspired by a Ligabue (Antonio) this passage is a search for peace (of the senses)». In the last songs of the album, Caparezza talks even more about himself and in Fai da tela , he lays bare, like a blank canvas “Despite all the efforts to be ourselves, we are and will always be what others want: an easy target. You know the deer with the face of Frida Kahlo
»The painting in question is precisely“ The little deer ”, pierced by arrows, emblem of suffering and pain. The penultimate song is calledIt is late , «The museum closes and with it hopes, possibilities and future projects. Fortunately, Dali teaches me that time is relative, especially if marked by dilated, metaphysical clocks. Maybe it’s late but I won’t stop ». Dali and “The persistence of memory” and therefore the last work that visitors can admire. The circle closes and Canzone at the exit is the piece with which Caparezza entertains visitors on the way back. A sort of summary of what they saw to inoculate them with the desire to return to the gallery and start the journey again. 15 July 2014
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