Till Brönner (Till Bronner) - Italia 2025

Исполнитель: Till Brönner (Till Bronner)
Альбом: Italia
Жанр: Jazz
Год: 2025
Страна: Germany (Viersen)
Лейбл: earMUSIC
Формат: FLAC (tracks)
Official DR value: DR8
Разрядность: 24bit / 96kHz Stereo
Размер: 1,26 GB
Инфо: wiki
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Italian pop culture as a European state of mind

The repertoire of ITALIA draws largely from the 1970s and early 1980s – a golden era of musical exchange across Europe. Italian songs played on French radio, filled German record stores, and shaped a continental cultural mood. ‘Italy created a kind of pan-European sound,’ says Brönner, ‘and an atmosphere that was formative for an entire generation.’

It was also a time when music was reflecting the hope for a bright future, when pop songs were at the same time light, and exploring the complexity and meaning of life. ‘There is a lot of hope today that things might shift toward something more human and more down to earth again – and that’s exactly the kind of feeling you could literally sense in the ’70s and ’80s,’ says Brönner.

Producer Nicola Conte reflects on the cultural self-understanding of that time: ‘We focused on a moment in Italian cultural history that is still, to this day, one of the most engaging, artistically relevant and colourful.’

Classics, rarities – and one original composition

In addition to classics by Lucio Battisti, Paolo Conte and Tony Renis, ITALIA also features rarities from the Italian pop culture of that era – songs that never gained recognition beyond the country’s borders. Brönner: ‘The album contains many songs that are well-known – at least from a non-Italian perspective. But there are also surprises. Nothing is more boring than a record where you know exactly how it will sound from the first note.’

The musical range spans the work of legendary cantautori to iconic film scores by Ennio Morricone, Piero Piccioni and Franco Micalizzi – complemented by an original composition by Brönner that blends so naturally into the repertoire, it takes a look at the credits to realize it doesn’t stem from that same golden era of Italian songwriting.

Brönner sings in Italian

In addition to his trumpet and flugelhorn, ITALIA also features Brönner’s singing. For the first time on a studio album, he sings in Italian – including on the newly released single ‘Viva la Felicità’, and on ‘L’Appuntamento’, the melancholic global hit made famous by Ornella Vanoni: ‘When I translated the lyrics into German, I thought: That could have been my story.’

The album alternates between instrumental tracks – shaped by Brönner’s unmistakable tone – and vocal pieces performed by absolute dream guests: Chiara Civello, Sera Kalo, Mario Biondi, Mandy Capristo, and Giovanni Zarrella.

A return shaped by memory

The idea for ITALIA is also rooted in Brönner’s biography. He spent part of his childhood in Rome: ‘It was a phase in my life that shaped me deeply – above all, this very specific Roman way of being. That’s something Italia is inspired by.’

Perhaps ITALIA is Till Brönner’s most personal album yet: ‘Some records come from a feeling. This one came from pure love.’

ITALIA was recorded in Bari and Rome, produced by Till Brönner and Nicola Conte – DJ, jazz musician and sound aesthete from Apulia, internationally acclaimed for his elegant, genre-blending musical language that fuses jazz, bossa nova and club culture.

Трэклист:

01. Estate
02. Viva La Felicità
03. Amarsi Un Po'
04. Via Con Me
05. Il Trucido E Lo Sbirro
06. La Donna Invisibile
07. Quando Quando Quando
08. Parole Parole
09. Cosa Vuoi
10. Travolti Da Un Insolito Destino Nell' Azzurro Mare d'Agosto (Soundtrack)
11. In Alto Mare
12. L'unica Chance
13. L'appuntamento
14. Arrivederci

Till Brönner, flugelhorn, trumpet, vocals, synthesizers, brass, background vocals
Roberto Di Gioia, piano, electric piano, synthesizers, mellotron, organ, keyboards, synthesizers arrangements
Nicola Conte, guitar
Bruno Müller, guitar
Pietro Lussu, piano, electric piano
Alberto Parmegiani, guitar
Magnus Lindgren, flutes, saxophones, reeds & woodwinds, woodwind arrangements
Christian von Kaphengst, double bass, electric bass
Ameen Saleem, double bass, electric bass
Teppo Mäkynen, drums
Gabriel Prado, percussion, background vocals
Arne Schumann, programming, recording, mixing
Katrin Mickiewicz, background vocals
Guest vocalists:
Mario Biondi, vocals on Via Con Me
Chiara Civello, vocals on Parole Parole
Giovanni Zarrella, vocals on Quando, Quando, Quando
Mandy Capristo, vocals on In Alto Mare
Sera Kalo, vocals on L’Unica Chance

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