Opening with a vibrant and anthemic Samba beat played on a nostalgic Bontempi keyboard, Michele Ducci’s latest track, “Even Before,” gracefully unfolds into a powerful and evocative love song. The track features an emphatic, uplifting chorus and a dreamy, waltz-like outro, elevated by Letizia Mandolesi’s radiant backing vocals and Ducci’s remarkable ability to deliver warm, soulful, and melodic performances.
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Accompanying this magnetic and atmospheric track is a series of artistic, whimsical, and exquisitely crafted visuals. These beautifully drawn illustrations perfectly capture the intricate artistic nuance of Ducci’s vision, blending a trippy, monochromatic art style with his exceptional talent for weaving poignant lyricism into playful, storytelling imagery.
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Reflecting on the track, the accompanying visuals and its narratives, Ducci shares, “’Even Before’ was born in scenes, as a movie. I had found a ten-euro Bontempi keyboard, and I let it do almost everything, playing it all live together with Letizia.
I have been reflecting for a long time on the absolute of change: it gives itself as an inverted perspective. It’s like a chorus in a song: coexistence of past and present, of a past that insists on a present that coexists with it and that, passing by, is the intrusion of an unpredictable novelty. You always find yourself in the middle of an act that was already in action before it was done and that, being fulfilled, becomes something that is no longer possible but fatally real. Deja: Jamais: Encore. It is an eternal return that is like a magical infinitesimal calculation, lived in the depths of what I call myself. It is the experience, the passage, that resonates in its immediate data like a chorus: an ocean of sive, of ‘that is’, that are the foundation of every ‘where’ and every ‘when’, as in the passages between verse and chorus: an incessant translation into, which is a crossing, not an impasse, but an impassage: an even before to which we must go back to probe the experience in its immediate data. It is an experience of variation that is done at the limit, near infinity.
Letizia and I drew the video by hand, and it is a sort of twin of the song: a cosmic pareidolia…the experience that makes itself felt in the foreground like a procession of faces still in the making: a chorus. The song as a sort of paramnestic pareidolia of creative evolution. All my work is all about that.”