«Roma», from 27 January the new song by Frank Past and Listanera
Available from January 27th on digital platforms (Artist First distribution) and on radio Rome, new single from the Frank Past project together with Listanera. A piece on the relationship with the Eternal City and its loves that comes from the pen of Frank Past and Listanera and whose musical appearance has been embroidered by Listenera himself in collaboration with the producer Ayellow, with influences that refer to the typical Italian productions of the 80s – Luca Carboni and Stadio in particular – with a touch of modernity.
“Rome is a grandiose, eternal, infinite city. It’s the perfect backdrop for sad love stories the way we like them. However, only those who have lived through it can smell the stench, caress its blemishes, bear its mercilessness. Rome is contemptuous, indecent, it is a nonsense, a failure. She is worn out, a liar and judges you. If you live there you want to escape. If you’re gone you crave it every day” – Blacklist.
“In the crowded solitude of the Eternal City, a nostalgic piece that narrates a farewell that drags on and creates new borders. Rome is referee and judge, spectator and confidant” – Frank Past. “Frank Past was my first email nickname in high school. It’s not beautiful but it contains my name, a hint of the past and it’s very British. I am 50% from Campania and 50% from Puglia: I love pizza and focaccia in the same way and for this reason I am always on a diet. I grew up in the countryside with earphones, cultivating a voracious musical appetite that took me to concerts of both Einaudi and Sven Vath. Curiosity is my best quality: I love knowing and telling what I like. After so many years in Naples, I treated myself to a new adventure in Rome: a magical city full of contradictions. I wear a lab coat and I always have an odd number of pens”.
Born in 1985. Frank Past was born exactly in the mid-80s: musically speaking, on that spring day, we are in the midst of a revolution. Between colorful voices and embryonic protests. This profound sound entropy will never be resolved: he reads, writes and listens without prejudice of any kind. This disorder is also expressed in his Indie Hub playlist, meeting and cauldron of music without blinkers or classifications. It must be said that unfortunately he will never learn to play or sing: after all, it’s better this way even if it makes him nervous. Doctor and musical storyteller in perennial apprenticeship: articles to write and coat with three pens. He is studying as a songwriter: after Dust, released in January 2021, he entrusted the lyrics of Lizard, Vanity and Bad Stars to the vocal emotions of Listanera. He collaborated with Listanera and Marvo MD in My word against yours. Among the glimpses of the city that welcomed him for a few months, ROME was born, a painful and reflective trace that tells with simple words of passages, changing chapters and gashes that cannot be healed. Also this time it is Listanera who creates the perfect track for an intimate and experienced story.
Listanera: born in 1984 Daniele was born in Rome and is obsessed with everything that characterized that decade. Above all the songwriting and the productions that have brought about a definitive innovation (Carboni, Dalla, Stadio, Venditti among others). He faces music relatively late with the release of an album titled 1984 in 2019 via Aphrodite Records Label. After mixed reviews from independent critics, he continues his journey by publishing several singles in collaboration with the King of synthwave/Italo Disco Vincenzo Salvia, with whom he releases Deckard, Nighstalker and Dust. In 2020 the publication of Incontro Banale the first totally self-produced single. In the same year Bebeto was released, the last song in collaboration with the Paduan label which recounts some events that marked the author’s childhood and adolescence. From 2021 he began collaborating as an interpreter and author of the lyricist Frank Past, publishing Polvere, Lucertola, Vanità, Cattive Stelle and a 6-handed collaboration together with MARVO MD and Frank Past himself, interpreting the song My word against yours.