So we had to work hard to do a 'cover' to match. I remember buying the LP, putting the turntable needle on it and it started playing. Nobody covers it because it is perfect, one of the most important songs he wrote, and also the start of 'Ziggy Stardust'. It was a challenge, because it's one of those iconic, untouchable Bowie songs. We spent a year doing nothing and, when we reactivated, what we did was participate in a tribute to David Bowie for the five years since his death.
But, of course, the world stopped in March of that year. This is going to be classified as a 'covid album', although we started working on it in November 2018, with a view to publishing it in the summer of 2020. I guess this album has quite a few stories behind it. Why can't we enjoy the present moment, when we are in it? So the idea is not to get stuck in the past, not to be sad because it is gone: be happy that what you are experiencing now and it will be what you will remember fondly in five years. Something to look back on in the future and what happens in the moment that you are living. What would you say is the main idea of 'Future past'?Īll we do is create past futures. Or when you listen to the soundtracks of 'James Bond' by John Barry. Why does a chord progression provoke an emotional reaction? For example, with our theme 'Ordinary world'. And, thus far, no machine has written good music. It makes you feel happy or sad or sexy or furious or fulfilled. The reason people compose is because it makes them feel good, it gives an emotion. Because music is something human, it happens inside people's minds and it has to do with emotion. You can find the thread that connects everything. What connection is there between you and Moroder? "Not on one of my records," he blurted out. And I replied that I have built my entire career on that same thing: singing a major third over a minor chord. I remember that, on that subject, he came one day and told me that I was singing a major third over a minor chord. So, we wanted the 'single' 'Tonight United' to be a Moroder song, not Duran Duran. He came with his synthesizer in a small briefcase and to work. It's one of those songs that really transports me to another place. I close my eyes and I can see things: the bar where I first heard the 'I feel love', the way home listening to that music. The thing is, look, there are songs that are really capable of taking you back in time and placing you in the same mental frame as then. There was Kraftwerk, who were avant-garde and made dance music, but not with that rhythm, they were slower. What is your first memory of Giorgio Moroder? The album is published this Friday and in it they have worked with 'il padrone elettronico', , talks about 'Future past' (BMG), the 15th album by the very veteran English group of 'new romantics'.
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