Till Brönner released new single ‘Amarsi un po’‘, the third track taken from his new album ‘ITALIA’ via earMUSIC.
The original, written and performed by Lucio Battisti, is one of the great classics of Italian pop music. ‘Amarsi un po’’ is a song about closeness and distance, about the miracle and the fragility of love.
Brönner: “I’m a huge fan of melancholy. Many people almost consider the word an illness. To me, it’s not that at all. This territory between tears and laughter – that is incredibly fertile ground. And there is nothing more important in life than love.”
In Brönner’s version, the piece unfolds instrumentally, carried by his trumpet – a reinterpretation that manages to say everything without words:
“Knowing Lucio Battisti’s original version and having the lyrics so present in my mind allows me to internalize ‘Amarsi un po’’ on the trumpet in a completely different way. It even led me to approach all other songs like this – always reading the lyrics first, even if you don’t hear them when I play the trumpet.” – Till Brönner
ITALIA is a deeply personal album, rooted in Brönner’s own biography: he spent part of his childhood in Rome. The album brings together worldwide hits, hidden treasures of Italian pop culture and film compositions – complemented by an original composition by Brönner himself and infused with the spirit of an era when European pop music was at once popular, poetic and open to the world.
ITALIA was recorded in Rome and Bari, produced by Till Brönner together with Apulian guitarist, DJ and sound aesthete Nicola Conte, who has been creating elegant soundscapes between jazz, bossa nova and club culture for decades.
Producer Conte explains: “We focused on a period in Italian cultural history that remains one of the most fascinating, artistically significant and colorful to this day.”
The result is a homage to Italy of the 1970s and 80s – with classics by Lucio Battisti, Paolo Conte, Tony Renis, iconic film music from Ennio Morricone to Franco Micalizzi – and a high-profile guest list: alongside Mario Biondi, the album features Mandy Capristo, Chiara Civello, Sera Kalo and Giovanni Zarrella, among others.
