Pippo Polina

It's like looking into a workshop: Someone is working, thinking, picking up a guitar, sitting down at the piano. Songs emerge, associations follow the inspiration of the moments. They are memories and reflections from a private perspective, personal, appreciative, emotional. "Nell'attimo" (In the moment) is the sketchbook of a songwriter who seeks diversity in the small, in the clarity of touching, melancholy songs. It is a celebration of the moment, sung with the dedication of a musician who can capture the world in words and melodies. Pippo Pollina is all about intensity and presence, but not necessarily just about harmony. After all, not everything is calm, not every song is a pat on the back, even if the conciliatory could be a leitmotif of his music. Because he looks over the shoulder of everyday life, people in their ambivalence, right up to the stages of his own career, which has established him in the musical present over almost four decades. "In the beginning, it was supposed to be a best-of album, a revisiting of my songs all by myself," Pippo Pollina recalls the development phases of "Nell'attimo". "After all, I made 24 records, some of which are more than 30 years old. But then I had composed so many pieces. The album was written within two weeks, eight songs are new, plus my Italian version of a song by Element Of Crime. And then there's 'Aspettando che sia mattina', the first track on my first album, which I recorded in November 1986 and now opens the program once again. It's a song that was written for a friend at the time, with whom I had many hopes and dreams and still have today. The album "Nell'attimo" is therefore, on the one hand, an assessment of the current situation with themes that still occupy Pippo Pollina today. It is about the relationships between people, man and woman, parents and children, about friendship, also about one's own place in the world and about the contrast between poor and rich countries, right up to the inability to deal with poverty from the perspective of prosperity. With the exception of a few passages where Stefania Verità on cello, Gianvito Di Maio on accordion and Roberto Petroli's clarinet complement the songs, it is an exclusively solo album that unfolds its power through the compositions, the voice and an instrument. It is also the starting point for a solo tour that will take Pippo Pollina through the halls and theaters of Europe next spring. Label Management: Thorsten Ilg +49 761 791978-0 info@jazzhausrecords.com www.jazzhausrecords.com © 2023 jazzhaus records jazzhaus records Jazzhaus Freiburg GmbH Glümerstrasse 2b 79102 Freiburg, Germany Phone: +49 761 79197810 Managing Director: Michael Musiol Registry Court: Amtsgericht Freiburg, Germany Register No.: HRB 6766 jazzhausrecords.com "Nell'attimo" is therefore an album for the journey, both concretely and figuratively. And it is a charming summary from the singer's sound workshop, provisional but with a timeless core: "Over the years, I have gotten to know many new styles and received impulses. But there is a clear common thread. Because the music is handmade. Hence the title 'Im Augenblick - Zehn handgemachte Lieder'. The music is created by the movement of the hands on an instrument, in a direct way. The sound comes from an acoustic material, wood, metal, nylon. There is no machine and no digital interventions that change the music. The humanity of art is clearly audible in this album. I have always tried to bring it to the fore, even when I have used modern machinery. This time, however, the focus is clearly on the handmade and the direct".

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