After two years of silence and a long work spent indoors recording in the prestigious British Grove Studios, Cesare Cremonini’s latest effort arrives.
The announcement comes a few hours after the release of the title track “Ora che non ho più te” on the platforms and accompanied by a video that develops in a long sequence shot lasting five minutes.
“Ora che non ho più te is a real song,” explained the singer-songwriter from Bologna. “I chose it as a trailblazer because it represented a turning point in terms of musical production and a turning of the page in my life. It’s not a memory that I want to return, it’s an experience that must become a biography, returning free.”
The release date for the full album has not yet been announced. Tickets for the new tour will go on sale at 11am on Friday, September 27 for a total of nine dates from June 8 to July 17, 2025.
“I think it’s important to let go of things when you’re allowed to, it’s useless to end a relationship, a friendship, a work relationship, any piece of your life, before it’s due, before the right time.o. There is a past in the song, there is a finished love, but there is also a new life to face for me and for those who were with me”
Cremonini sings in a stanza “Now that I don’t have you anymore I never rest” and says: “There was nothing more true for me. No metaphors are needed, when you can’t rest anymore, when you can’t sleep anymore. Then the new music coming out dresses you up again, everything suddenly changes. You are the master, for a few seconds, of your destiny”.
“Now that I no longer have you is the curtain that opens on a project made of many scenography that I will reveal song after song. In this song there is all the desire to return to speaking a more real language, of the things I experience, without hiding. I’m hanging on to life: I work, I travel, I know, I throw myself into experiences. Even the musical choices reflect this attitude, it’s a song that wants to make you sing, scream, dance with your feet on the ground”.
And he dances, in fact, in the final part of the video, which opens with him, with a bruised face, getting on a motorbike driven by a woman in the dark, on a plain between the mountains: for five minutes, in an era in which songs last three minutes at most, the camera follows him along the journey of the two of them and then sees them separate.
She goes away, he remains standing, still, illuminated by what seems to be the light of a bonfire and then, free, he lets himself go in a wild, almost tribal, liberating dance.
On February 25, 2022, La ragazza del futuro was released. The album was preceded by a long performance on the Ariston stage in which Cremonini celebrated his twenty years on the scene, from his first footsteps with Lunapop to the very famous “Nessuno vuole essere Robin”.
In the same year, the tour sold out (and it is reasonable to think it will happen again) in arenas all over Italy, definitively consecrating Cremonini as one of the major exponents of modern Italian singer-songwriters.
Cesare Cremonini in concert at San Siro (lapresse)
