Eighteen tracks. Eighteen stories. Some read, fast, funny and ironic. Other harsh, sharp, strong, important. the J-Ax has grown, has changed, has become another, more like a singer than a rapper or a punk rocker, even if it has lost nothing of the one and the other. More like a musical artist, contemporary pop, which is perhaps the definition that fits better, free to move between the sounds and the words as he wishes, free to talk of things serious and silly, free to have fun and make you think about who is listening. The album is titled Real, and it is a fun and triple play on words, but it is the sense of truth to dominate, because of true in Real there is everything, every song, every rhyme, every verse, because Alessandro Aleotti , 48 years old, in art J-Ax, has decided that this album was put all its truth, its history, its past and also, if possible, a few drops of his future. It’s an album very rich and varied, full of music, of refinement and simplicity, in a constant play of contrasts that, in the end, is the true signature style of Ax.
the Game that participates in an important band of friends, formed by Annalisa, Luca Di Stefano, Boomdabash, Chadia Rodriguez, Enrico Ruggeri, Chile, The Payer, Jake Fury, Max Pezzali, Paola Turci, Sergio Sylvestre and the choir of the school of music Cluster Milano , all gathered together in the court of King Ale to give body to the album’s most complex and important of his career, five years after the previous one, The beautiful to be ugly that he had opened this new phase. If it is true that, as it says in Ax by presenting the album, “Be Real mean to hold up the middle finger when the power tries to crush, to play a game honestly when you know that the cards are rigged, it means fall down seven times and get up eight… to be Real is to shop finally after a long time and to say I’m a loser who won”, it is also true that today J-Ax is a seasoned artist, whose music is no longer restricted to play, who lives his art as a serious thing and an important commitment: “After so many years of experience, to change, to try, I simply said that I understood what are the things that are done well and that, as I know, do I have to commit to make them better, I try to take everything to the next level, from writing to music. The aim was to overcome myself and my album favorite, The beautiful to be ugly, and I think I succeeded”.
it’s an album that brings to the fore his soul from singer-songwriter…
“Yes, perhaps I am a bit more singer-songwriter, in the end, I have many of my influences, also by birth I grew up with the music that comes before the rap, with De Gregori, with Vasco. But I also think that rap is a form of art song, with the amount of music that is different, in the end it is always to write what you feel, think and sing”.
This is the look towards the past. But for this album it had to reckon also with the present, with the new generations, who do rap music in Italy today?
“there should never be a debate, because I make pop with a root rap, I do not enter into the current. And then what is the point, I can say that someone went the better of me, but if I look at the last twenty-five years, I went better I. No, there are no comparisons, what you are, what you want to be and the music you have on offer”.
, certainly in the last few years for her, everything has changed, the work, music, success, family…
“Yes, everything has changed, and, above all, becoming a father has given me a perspective, has profoundly changed the order of my priority and this has changed everything else. Are much more happy than before…”.
What has been the most happy?
“I believe that happiness is a synonym of serenity and I are now one hundred percent”.
This serenity allowed her to make a record that touches on many important topics, is the record for the most “serious” that you have ever made.
“Yes, it is a hard serious, the songs often have topics that touched me personally, but I’m also talking about things that interest me, which to me seems to be important to talk about. I express my opinions because it is the time to do it: there is very little desire to dialogue, with the advent of social positions are more radicalized, and each remains in his and does not want to hear the other. Then I try to have my say, on self-defense, on domestic violence, on the war between the sexes that is in the act, but which is spoken of too little. Or things that touched me closely, emotionally, humanly. Important things also, I talked to in the past, but the difference is that, since I try to migliorami always, for these songs I did a lot of research, I have worked as a journalist, I read everything there was to read. For the Dangerous, the piece that I have with Chadia Rodriguez, I’m aware a lot, I read the forum of the misogynists, the site of the movement for the rights of men, I tried not to say things that you can say at the bar in front of a cafe. Maybe once I go over the belly, not now, I want to be more informed and you can inform you, as a journalist.”
musically, there is more research, not focused only on the song with the chorus that catch…
“There has been an increased attention to detail, more attention to the music, the sounds, the things that actually were there even before but they were unripe, more punk. Certainly, you must say things as they are: I had the means to do so, and I have achieved a status that has allowed me, for example, to call Roger and ask him to sing a song with me, or go to New York to make certain sounds, or have manufacturers like Takagi and Ketra and we can to work a long time, things that I have gained with the success and the years”.
and Then is heard no more, not even a little bit misunderstood…
“this is track number one of the disc is clear, with all the way that you do to reach the top. I feel I am always the number 2, a young promise the usual asshole”.
What would you like to see happen with this album, and still want to J-Ax?
“I would like to meet whoever follows me, the loyal fans, the ones that I have never given up. Then I would like to that had a good success, what you want all the singers, to take it live and make beautiful concerts. The immediate success counts for little, the real satisfaction of a good album you the gives in the long term. And then, to tell you the truth, I am very convinced of the work I have done, and then I am at peace with myself.”
has followed the controversy on Junior Cally in Sanremo?
“Controversy from the poor. Eminem in his song, he explained to the girls how to kill the mother and on the stage of Sanremo there is gone the same. A song is a song like a movie and a film, there are stories to read and stories heavy. The rap is also made of these clichés violent, I’ve never used but use. Sanremo has need of rap ” to stay current, and the rap is also done so”.
last night at the Blue Note has presented the album, from Friday, part of a mini tour.
“I can’t wait, I have so many new songs to sing and this is the one that counts.” Arguments sanremo 2020MusicaReaAleraphip hopJ-Ax Network
