Video interview - PAOLO BENVEGNÙ: the screenplay of a film that no one will make

“È INUTILE PARLARE D’AMORE” is the new album of unreleased songs by PAOLO BENVEGNÙ, released on January 12th.

The album was preceded by the first single Bad songs, followed by the publication of the EP “SOLO FIORI”, which earned Benvegnù great praise from critics and the presence in the five finalists of the Targhe Tenco 2023 in the “Best single song” category.

THE CONCEPT

The new album is a real bildungsroman, the screenplay of a film that no one will make and that no one felt the need for.
Every free act of construction, moreover, in a world steeped in pragmatism and the desire for position, is a useless act. Everything that is not seen is useless.”

In the post-modern pragmatism we live in, love is as useless as looking at and giving flowers. We are crushed by something else. Kites stopped on the ground. Engines still.

The only freedom, present and future, lies in uselessness. Of loving. Of being. The more useless you are. The more free you are.

All of us are imbued with the visible… (the body, what we possess, our gaze on the world) and the non-visible (our memories, dreams, deepest desires…) if you extract the non-visible, that is, the useless , according to the idea of this time, we are no longer complete human beings, educated sentimentally, but beings educated according to convention.. Well, love is useless because you don’t earn money from it. You don’t get a position on it, except pornographically. Here then the unseen, the magic, the love become connotative. And they are the last resource of freedom of thought we have..

If you extract the unseen, the useless, the unmeasurable to man, then everything becomes mechanics of feeling..

The record, the novel, the film, despite being useless, nevertheless starts from specific axioms, from true cardinal points.

1) REALITY CAN’T DO ANYTHING ABOUT INFINITY.
2) EVERYTHING THAT HAS A SHAPE IS DISAPPOINTING FOR SOME.
3) SILENCE IS IMPORTANT AS CONTEMPLATION
4) YOU CANNOT LIVE AND THINK NOW EXCEPT AS AN OUTLAW.

These and other themes on “IT’S USELESS TO TALK ABOUT LOVE”, a hymn to the freedom linked to non-being. Manifesto of senselessness in a senseless world, where the rules regulate the rules.
The cells of which we are composed, however, only obey one law, based on the environment in which they are found.
Either immortality or reproduction.
In these two aspects, pass down survival information.

“IT’S USELESS TO TALKING ABOUT LOVE” is like this: Lost, useless. Unseen. Growing. Inevitable.

THE VIDEO INTERVIEW

THE TRACKLIST

Technical and symbolic
The Ocean (feat. Brunori Sas)
Pearl divers
Marlene Dietrich
Our indifferent love
27-12 (feat. Neri Marcorè)
Our love song
Bad songs
In der nicht sein
Free
The origin of the world
To disobedience

THE VERSIONS

“IT’S USELESS TO TALK ABOUT LOVE” will be released in two different versions – explains Benvegnù; on the vinyl support, which requires changing sides of the support to listen, I thought of a narrative suitable for a tea room, which I called “Peach blossom’s cut”.

It is a more compact, agile, pure version. Ideal for a winter afternoon.

The digital version, also available in physical form on CD, is suitable for listening in the car, for a jogging session, perfect for a mountain excursion.
Contains a longer narrative, an ending with imaginative credits. I called it Hidden Dragon’s Cut.
Ideal for listening in absolute continuity. Two formats, with different characteristics, designed for different life situations. Tailored to every need.”

THE LIVE

The singer-songwriter-craftsman’s new recording will be presented live, together with the songs that have marked his thirty-year career, on the “È INUTILE PARLARE D’AMORE – LIVE 2024” tour.

DATES

Saturday 20 January 2024 – Glue – FLORENCE
Thursday 8 February 2024 – Hiroshima Mon Amour – TURIN
Friday 9 February 2024 – Molloy Dairy – BRESCIA
Thursday 22 February – Monk – ROME
Friday 23 February – Arci Kalinka Dude – SOLIERA (MO)