Valerio Piccolo: “Così Paolo Sorrentino ha scelto il mio brano per ‘Parthenope”
(Adnkronos) - Il musicista casertano racconta alla AdnKronos l’incontro col regista partenopeo, che si è innamorato di ‘E sì arrivata pure tu”’, la canzone originale che poi ha scelto come colonna sonora per il suo ultimo film, attualmente nelle sale.
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00:00This connection was born in a very natural way, with a listening of the song by Paolo,
00:10and this listening generated a love for this song,
00:17which came in a very natural way in the sound editing of the film.
00:25Valerio Piccolo describes the meeting with Paolo Sorrentino,
00:29which led the director Partenopeo to fall in love with a song of the artist,
00:33which became the soundtrack of his last effort at the cinema, Partenope.
00:38I have always loved Paolo's work, from the beginning it has been a great passion.
00:45Sometimes I still struggle to believe that this passion has ended in a collaboration.
00:54For me he is a creator, a visionary in the best sense of the word,
01:05and I think that at this moment in Italy a director who speaks for images like him
01:12is really impossible to find.
01:16Casertano of origin, New Yorker by choice and now Roman by adoption.
01:20Valerio Piccolo in New York met and worked with Susan Vega,
01:24folk icon of the 90s-2000s.
01:26I had translated his book of poems and stories, which Minimum Facts had published.
01:35From there we met and we brought around a kind of show,
01:39which was a format in between music and reading.
01:42At the time, I must say that the readings were not as inflated as they became later.
01:48From there a collaboration was born, which was naturally transferred to music.
01:53Then we recorded a duet, which was then called so.
01:58I would define it as all American songwriters,
02:03who, even if they become icons as she was,
02:06then remain songwriters in the soul and therefore have a path
02:12that you find similar to yours,
02:14even if there are millions of copies sold of difference.
02:18But I find a simplicity, especially at the level of approach to writing,
02:25approach to creation, which I like a lot.
02:28It's something I like a lot about America.
02:30And now the artist has a dream, to unite music and cinema, his two worlds.
02:35A free speaker compared to the Italian musical panorama,
02:38to understand what he thinks of Sanremo.
02:41Sanremo is something that has to do with too many factors, in my opinion.
02:44And music is sometimes relegated almost in a corner.
02:48So it's not something that, as an approach as a musician, drives me crazy.
02:53I understand that it enters the musical cauldron and stays where it should be,
02:58like many Italian phenomena.
03:00I'm not crazy about the fact that in March we're already talking about Sanremo in February.
03:05That seems to me a bit, because there is so much great music in the middle.
03:08Maybe it would be the case to pay attention to what is going on in the other 11 months.