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Lucio Dalla
Lucio Dalla · 1979 · Track 9
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This song was recorded in a studio that smells of wood and old cables, where time seems to stand still between takes. It sounds like a promise written on crumpled paper, like that moment when someone decides to leave behind what no longer serves them and start anew. The voice of Lucio Dalla moves forward with a mix of urgency and calm, as if he knew exactly what he wanted to say but had no hurry to let it out. There’s something in his phrasing that recalls those jazz singers who improvise over a familiar theme, yet here everything is calculated so that each word strikes like a hammer on an anvil. The song doesn’t linger on the personal: it speaks of a future that hasn’t yet arrived, of a year yet to come that we all await without quite knowing why.
The album that contains it was recorded in 1979 at the Stone Castle Studios in Carimate, a place said to have a capricious acoustics. Dalla had just come off a trilogy of albums — alongside Come è profondo il mare (1977) and Divenuto (1980) — which critics dubbed the "trittico della maturità." In those years, the musician had moved past his collaboration with lyricist Roberto Roversi and had become the sole author of his songs, pouring all his accumulated experience into them. The result was a sound that, without intending to, ended up defining an era for those who listened to it. The song itself lasts 4 minutes and 25 seconds, long enough for the melody to get stuck in your head and refuse to leave.