Ilaria Pastore - Video Interview INTERVIEW Start by telling your story. When you started playing together? How did your project?
Lucio and I play together almost five years. We started him and me, then three years ago has added Antonio, so we decided to take this path as a trio. We do not know how many hours locked in the rehearsal room to rearrange the entire repertoire in three. For three years we do not stop with the concerts.
is now released your new album. You first said you're a little disadvantage in terms of radio broadcasting, according to you is because men prefer to spend on radio or on the ground is another?
I think the reason is another. We first of all we are part of an independent circuit, which means that we have behind us a small label that believed in the project as is, without parameters canned in radio. Outside those parameters, there is hardly any passage. Matter of culture radio, I do not know what to call it. We are penalized because they certainly do not fall in the standards demanded by the mainstream, but there are exceptions. Some radio medium and small pass us, call us, interview us. It 's a different circuit.
part of this circuit including the Internet? The network of support ensures you stronger than conventional means?
Absolutely. Internet is first visible. Even the deployment of a video of a properly recorded live gives you a lot of contacts.
What other artists or groups you belong to the circuit you feel similar?
Similar in intent and in the ideas you could mention it a lot. As for style, for we find it really killed the work. I state that no one today does not invent anything, but we have tried to propose a sound stripped from the influences of our background.
To get to what you have heard it is essential that we are three people with different musical tastes and we were playing well because each person brought with them their experience. We exchanged a bit 'ideas and influences, teaching each other genres and influences.
What are your influences?
Ilaria: I listen to everything. I grew up with a lot of music from overseas and I love Brazilian music. I had a passion for Ani Di Franco, but I started with the metal, with Metallica. Then I went over to jazz to pop and electronica.
Antonio: I do not like to call me in to a genre, I like to listen to everything. Even if I have a passion for natural brushes that can be used with Ilaria so different from the classic mode in which they are used. I went over to jazz over the years, but I started with the rock of Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Queen.
Lucio: I also listen to everything, even in the conservatory because I have studied many genres, from classical to jazz. When I approached I could choose to pop music. I'm crazy about the Italian singer-songwriter music: Battisti, Fossati, and the new generation, and Niccolò Fabi Samuele Bersani. When I have the opportunity to collaborate with artists such as Ilaria seek to know the history, so as to be able to put into music what she thinks. My notes have the responsibility for his lyrics
So come by three quite different worlds, I understand that there was difficult to meet but it was worth it.
Yes, although we are humanely destroyed (Group laughter). In fact it was a hard job, there were also moments of tension because it was hard to figure out how to get people in my songs, now if we do not have them these songs do not sound the same even if I wrote them myself. Ilaria Pastore Trio is a project that goes all around in Italy for three years and this is an indication that we are united and that we have created a true sound.
think that in Italy there are so many songwriters ?
Valid Yes, very. I can name a few of my circuit: Lubjan Giovanna, Maria Lapi .. The problem is always the same: there is a circuit ready to invest in this figure today, because it's time for other things, is a time when the TV is the first place. There are so many musicians, but space is lacking
your opinion, what areas should be to give light to these realities?
There should be first and foremost respect for real music.
I'll tell you one thing that might surprise you. I also think that the premises are actually penalized by the cost of SIAE. I see the venue has always worked great today are in crisis. We should first bring the culture of the concerts so also push people to go out and support costs. If the room had the chance to live music without having the noose around his neck, we'd all be happier. Probably we would go more often a place to hear music, which has now disappeared from our culture. Days ago I saw a program where guests were Dalla and De Gregori, they showed the footage of their concerts in the seventies, there was really a lot of people. At that time people were willing to listen to music. People are tired no longer want to go out and stay at home on the couch with the TV. I think that digital terrestrial television, I have no TV, and I'm fine!
According to you, despite this change in trend, playing live still make sense?
not always. There are situations that have happened have not understood because the operator has chosen to make live music. They treated us like we were the decorations.
Lucio: Do \u200b\u200bnot live for a musician I think like a lawyer who does not go to court to argue the case
Antonio: I do not do live is like being with a woman and do not never sleep with her.
Ilaria: I do not examples (collective laughter) it is not possible for me not to live. There are various roles, for example, a songwriter are convinced that live music is the natural principle / consequence of what he does. The singer is just from making music in the street. Then there are projects as discussed at the table who have traveled a path record, and that is another thing. We come from live and we made the album after ten years of live music. The job you do it in many years when you are tired you kill, you are insulted because they do not like you, trying to figure out how to improve, you get dirty hands: it is hard to do the job as a musician! As a songwriter, then do not talk about! You invent something that tells you who to please? Another problem is that it is a profession not the least recognized in our country, so if you do not exist you can have that role?!
S ccording to you, now that everyone with internet musicians improvise, which is the distinction between one who is a musician because he likes and that makes him a professional?
Ilaria: Attitude! The fact that studies, teaching, the professionalism that you put. You can not even be an excellent musician on a technical level, but you can have a great talent and great professionalism, and this makes you a musician.
Lucio: The problem is that I think most of the artists or assumed is coming from zero to a hundred in a second without that thing in between called paying dues. And the mess is to make music live around Italy as all the musicians, as do all singer-songwriters of the Italian landscape. It is a form of respect for our art is for us also to work and how all the work calls for a minimum of mess.
I: For us it is also important to the public. There are many people who listen to music, listen to the words and thanks you for the emotions you gave. Except that, unfortunately, is an attitude that we lost because it is a difficult moment in history. We play always, we give a lot to do, and during our concerts, we know a lot of people that we carry with us for years.
Tell us about the award you won .
We have been awarded by MEI and the International Poetry Festival of Genoa. Rewards for my hard word, and it was a totally unexpected bonus. I thank those who made this decision without my knowledge, I am really happy because the texts are a very personal thing and I struggled not to change them. And it's a sign we are afraid of not having visibility but it is not so! It means that people listen to the right places. And we thank not only our name, but also on behalf of the entire circuit.
