Piji sings the anthem of antisocial.
A pop tribute to the holidays alone, far from the disappointing humanity of social networks
“An incautious and vulgar humanity that we find ourselves in the pages of our social networks every day is what drives the protagonist of” Misanthropy Village “towards an eremitical escape, a wonderful solitary vacation to be able to detoxify from the present. The Misanthropy Village is a bit the anti-piece of the summer, it is a real and imaginary place, a place of the soul where to be sheltered from the ugliness of the like. A kind of passive, non-violent and ironic resistance to fight the difficult times we are living ”(this is how Piji tells himself). From 9 August “MISANTHROPY VILLAGE”, the new single by Roman singer-songwriter Piji, arrives on the radio in all digital stores and streaming platforms. first of a recording project just born from the collaboration with the Ellepiartin label and the Artistic Director Niccolò Petitto. The new dream-like and colorful journey of Piji, an eclectic Roman singer-songwriter, active for years in the Italian pop-jazz scene, is a summer dream, a perfect vacation, a terrestrial Eden far from A fresh and summer track, to dance but also to listen to, in which the most cheerful pop mixes with the sophisticated elements of jazz. “A hymn dedicated to all those who jokingly consider themselves” asocial “or more generally to all those who float with difficulty in today’s society (” socials make me asocial, “says the author). But in Misanthropy Village misanthropy is never seen as hatred, just as disappointed love for humanity and above all as an ironic defense against the decadence of life. A shelter”....
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Piji sings the anthem of antisocial.
A pop tribute to the holidays alone, far from the disappointing humanity of social networks
“An incautious and vulgar humanity that we find ourselves in the pages of our social networks every day is what drives the protagonist of” Misanthropy Village “towards an eremitical escape, a wonderful solitary vacation to be able to detoxify from the present. The Misanthropy Village is a bit the anti-piece of the summer, it is a real and imaginary place, a place of the soul where to be sheltered from the ugliness of the like. A kind of passive, non-violent and ironic resistance to fight the difficult times we are living ”(this is how Piji tells himself). From 9 August “MISANTHROPY VILLAGE”, the new single by Roman singer-songwriter Piji, arrives on the radio in all digital stores and streaming platforms. first of a recording project just born from the collaboration with the Ellepiartin label and the Artistic Director Niccolò Petitto. The new dream-like and colorful journey of Piji, an eclectic Roman singer-songwriter, active for years in the Italian pop-jazz scene, is a summer dream, a perfect vacation, a terrestrial Eden far from A fresh and summer track, to dance but also to listen to, in which the most cheerful pop mixes with the sophisticated elements of jazz. “A hymn dedicated to all those who jokingly consider themselves” asocial “or more generally to all those who float with difficulty in today’s society (” socials make me asocial, “says the author). But in Misanthropy Village misanthropy is never seen as hatred, just as disappointed love for humanity and above all as an ironic defense against the decadence of life. A shelter”.
Endless quotations hidden in the text: from De Gregori (“History is us: what a mess”) to De André (“Faber says where the majority is, I where the majority is”), to Zeman, Cyrano de Bergerac, Maccio Capatonda, Patti Smith, Nanni Moretti (“Dear diary, there is a novelty: at ease and always agreed with the minority”), Zucchero Fornaciari (“Hey brother, we are in the shit”), Francesco Nuti (” Madonna, what a silence there is tonight “), up to Mago Merlino de” The sword in the rock “and his mythical holiday phrase” Honolulu arrival “interpreted for the occasion by the unmistakable voice of Massimo Boldi, (protagonist also in the video) as special guest in the song is Stefano Di Battista, with his proverbial jazz soprano sax. Phil Mer and Daniel Bestonzo mixed, for the arrangement of Misanthropy Village, analogical and digital instruments, electronics and instruments played, pop and jazz, in a perfect balance that makes the song particularly festive without being frivolous. The solo phrases of the sax by Stefano Di Battista and the manouche guitar by Egidio Marchitelli (historical collaborator and fixed member in the live band of Piji) interact with the sung text and with the many rhythmic games that make this piece a piece of summer and the anti-piece of the summer at the same time.
CREDITS
Produced and arranged by Phil Mer and Daniel Bestonzo
Text and music: Piji
Piji – voice, rhythm guitar
Egidio Marchitelli – solo manouche guitar
Daniel Bestonzo – programming and keyboards
Phil Mer – programming and battery
SPECIAL GUESTS
Stefano Di Battista – soprano sax
Massimo Boldi in the role of Merlin Magician
Recorded by Antonio Nappo at Q recording studio in Milan
Recorded by Max Rosati at R’n’B recording studio in Civitavecchia
Mixed by Antonio Nappo at Q recording studio in Milan
Mastered by Piero Caramelli at Energy Mastering in Milan
Cover photo Tamara Casula
Etichetta e management: Ellepiartin
“Loneliness is not madness, it is indispensable to feel good in company” (Giorgio Gaber)
PIJI BIO
Roman singer-songwriter, active for several years in the Italian scene, Piji was 16 times 1st place in reviews dedicated to songwriters and has to his credit 4 participations in the Tenco Prize Festival in Sanremo: among the various awards the AFI 2013 Award for the best project record, Premio Lunezia Future stars 2010, the Bindi Prize 2009 (also awarded for Best Text and Best Music), the Shaman Festival at Showman 2010, the Augusto Daolio Prize 2007, Botteghe d’autore 2007, the L’artista Premio there was 2007, and others so as to be called the “most awarded young singer-songwriter in Italy”.
With the “Piji Project” and the various parallel projects (such as Emmet Ray Manouche Orkestra) he has carried out in these years an incessant live work that touched the main Italian shows (Umbria Jazz, Blue Note Milano, Roma Jazz Festival, Verona Jazz, Pescara Jazz, Villa Celimontana Jazz Festival,
Casa del Jazz, to name a few).
His singles Welcome to Italy, Some say no (electro swing version of Vasco’s classic rock, appreciated by Komandante himself) and Love at the time of swing (signed with Enrico Ruggeri, with great guests in the videoclip including Fiorello and Renzo Arbore) have reached the top of the iTunes jazz charts.
Piji was among the recurring guests and also the small orchestra of the Edicola Fiore di Fiorello, sang with Renzo Arbore in the program Quelli dello Swing (Rai2) and has among his main collaborations those with Simona Molinari, Michela Andreozzi (Piji is in the cast of his film Nine and a half moons), Tiziana Foschi and Max Paiella, has duet with Gianmaria Testa, Fausto Mesolella, Francesco Baccini, Sergio Caputo, Lorenzo Fragola, Dario Vergassola, Giorgio Tirabassi, Massimo Wertmuller, Ada Montellanico and has written several excerpts for the cinema, such as The Lamp of Aladdin, which is part of the soundtrack to Sei mai been on the moon by Paolo Genovese (2015).
He has had three books, more than twenty different radio presentations from conductors (conducted over the years for Radio Città Futura and Rai International) and musical participation in many theatrical shows (among others In bed after Carosello, Cibami, Dunque, she has known Tenco ?, The point G. Outrage to Giorgio Gaber, Delirio a tre, Voices in the desert) the last of the winner of the “Riviere di Liguria Chamber of Commerce” award, or Do not even kill horses? produced by the Brancaccio Theater directed by Giancarlo Fares with Giuseppe Zeno and with songs and music by Piji.
In February 2019, from Sanremo for “La vita in diretta”, Piji was aired every afternoon on Raiuno and played with his band several musical “metamorphoses” of the historical songs of the Festival.
In the autumn of 2019 “Do you kill horses like that?” Will be back on tour from September to December and again in the autumn of 2019, Piji will be the artistic director of “Roma per Gaber”, a week dedicated to Giorgio Gaber in the various branches of the Brancaccio group .
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