On a cold winter day when live music decidedly raised the low temperature, the Tuttoitalia team met the Italian band at the Zauberpark. Stash, Ale and Dario welcomed us backstage, immediately creating the right mood to turn an ordinary interview into a pleasant chat about the value of music, about dreams come true and about their latest award.
>> See the photos from the Zauberpark concert
First of all, congratulations on the SIAE award for Italodisco, best track on the radio. “Yes, it’s unbelievable…”
With 28 million views it is very believable instead! “It’s unbelievable because the recognition closed the circle on things we never expected from Italodisco. Above all because we think back to when we wrote it, in the studio in Naples, in what you might call goofing-around mode, during the break after a tour. It came about spontaneously and lightly, having fun, without looking for that kind of made-to-measure creation that has to become a summer hit.”
So it wasn’t a song packaged for radio airplay? “No, on the contrary: the success of this track is emblematic of the audience that has embraced us and followed us with affection over these years. Holding that award for an Italian is like holding a Grammy for an American. The emotion was extremely strong and involving.”
Let us try to give a certain kind of song its due, the light, summery one, not politically committed or socially critical. There are simply tracks that touch people’s chords, both with the poetic words of the great singer-songwriters and with a lighter lyric, but with the right chorus that makes you want to dance. If we look at the success of the series about 883, can we say that music is emotion in the round, avoiding any cataloguing of songs? Vamos a la playa, Hanno ucciso l’uomo ragno, 50 special or Italodisco certainly hold a worthy and by no means minor place in Italian discography… “We agree. We were born as a pop band and for anyone making pop, writing a summer hit is an achievement. It isn’t for anyone making indie or hip hop, obviously. That doesn’t mean the summer song should be seen by many as superficial, gathering less value than another genre. Music cannot be labelled, just as nothing artistic can be, a painting for example. Italodisco, in truth, was born in mid-October and was not conceived for the summer. Then it went on to set off the following summer season, exploding in countries such as Poland or Switzerland itself in September, carrying on to its peak last March.”
A span of time that comes from reaching a universal language… “Yes, indeed, we are in the city where we experienced this at first hand. In Zurich, last year at the Letzigrund, we saw a non-Italian audience that did not know the words, enthusiastic, carried away by our rhythm. Italodisco was sung by heart in chorus. That means the Swiss picked up the message from the melody, from the mood, and in terms of impulse that is worth far more than a thousand languages.”
So shall we also give due credit to the undeniable importance of the hit that becomes the soundtrack of the most iconic Italian summer ice cream? “Of course, but if we are not talking about aspiring Baudelaires, rather about people in love with Michael Jackson: any kid in their bedroom dreams of writing a track that has meaning and that is remembered and celebrated in a given context. Being part of the soundtrack of the repetitive Cornetto Algida advert is a significant and extraordinary result too!”
And it is significant that when you reach that kind of popularity with a song, however light, however described as a summer hit, the audience still remembers it ten years later… “Because it does not remain the trend or the fashion of a moment that gets forgotten. That song is the child of memories that last across several periods, and that is everything you can dream of from a track.”
The time set aside for our interview ends with a video that is a goodbye until the next concert, just confirmed to us by the production company. See you soon in Zurich, guys!
Meanwhile, in front of the stage, among the lights and the art installations backed by an immense moon, the first spectators begin to arrive, chilled but excited to wait for that summer music which will warm a winter evening rich in Christmas magic, pop and rock played with method and, above all, with an Italian spirit that is appreciated more and more!
LUGANO, Studio Foce
Monday 2 December 2024
8.30 pm
SOLD OUT - LUGANO, Studio Foce
Monday 2 December 2024
8.30 pm
SOLD OUT - BERN, Bierhübeli
Saturday 18 January 2025
8.00 pm
ZURICH, Komplex 457
Wednesday 10 December 2025
8.00 pm
Tickets >> https://www.ticketmaster.ch/artist/the-kolors-tickets/1272893
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