Paolo Domeniconi presents his solo album “L’ultimo ribelle”.

Paolo Domeniconi, the chief of the historic band The Insurgent Cats, together with Paolo Peddis, Fabio Signorelli and Stefano Prati, is making his debut as a soloist with the rockabilly album “L’ultimo ribelle”, all in Italian. ” was recorded reside between two music laboratories in Romagna, L’Amor Mio Non Muore and Crinale Lab.

The album consists of 9 tracks, eight of that are unreleased and one cowl, and a video for the one “Good Morning Teds” was launched previous to its launch. Domeniconi will accompany musicians Mattia Montesi, Don Antonio Gramentieri, Luca Giovacchini, Piero Perelli and Vince Valicelli for the reside presentation and recording in Forlì.

How did the thought for this album come about? And the way lengthy did it take to complete the job?

“The thought was born throughout the curfew once I lastly realized my need to place into phrases as a substitute of music a few of my ideas that I had saved in my drawer for years. I began recording on Might 1, 2021 and completed it in three days. On this context, I bear in mind an amusing anecdote. Two days after the recording began, it was my flip to sing, however I needed to postpone it as a result of I did not really feel prepared. We met for dinner on the Crinale Lab that night, and simply as I used to be about to say goodbye and depart Gramentieri, my producer stopped me and mentioned, “Paolo, let’s sing now, consider me, that is your second.” He was proper, I truly recorded all of the tracks in an hour. He had the sensitivity to grasp that at that second I used to be going to do my finest”.

The identify of his album is “L’ultimo ribelle”. Do you take into account your self a insurgent in music? And alive?

“I take into account myself a insurgent in opposition to the idea of music and the best way I reside it. Musically, I at all times felt free and at all times did what I cherished. I’ve by no means adopted trend, simply my musical intuition and fervour that I’ve carried ahead over time. I additionally really feel like a insurgent as a result of regardless of my age, I nonetheless rage in opposition to social injustices with my childhood anger and power.”

Many of the lyrics on the album had been co-written with Claudio Molinari. Is there a selected piece you need to discuss?

“That is proper, there’s additionally a chunk that’s totally mine on the album, one other piece that I wrote with Fabio Signorelli and made with Vince Vallicelli. I put Space’s track “Pleasure and Revolution”, which expresses my understanding of rebel, as the one cowl, so I began enjoying it and I’ll at all times play it. As an alternative, it was an exquisite alternate of concepts with Molinari, I listened to the music I composed and advised what he had conveyed to me, and he had him totally interpret and put my ideas and soul into the texts.”

You’ve at all times labored with music. The place does this ardour come from?

“The assembly with the nice painter and nice musician Maurizio Monti, who sadly handed away final yr, was decisive for me. I met him at artwork faculty and due to him, my ardour for guitar and singing was born. Vital was the beginning of The Insurgent Cats, the place we did not simply play video games, we additionally based the Memphis Membership in 1985 and arranged the primary worldwide rockabilly assembly in Forlì in ten years.

Are you planning on doing the rest as a soloist?

“For now, I need to proceed this challenge, which I’m happy with, with all of the musicians I performed with in Forlì to advertise the album. For me, with the ability to make a file of my album is already successful, one other selection that I might describe as a insurgent. However in the meantime, I proceed to write down tracks and provides live shows with The Insurgent Cats».