Mannarino Intervista Primo Amore

Five years after his last recording project, Mannarino returns with his new album "Primo Amore," out Friday, May 8th via BMG. This marks a new phase in his artistic journey and confirms his position as one of the most incisive voices on the contemporary Italian scene, expressing a popular and unconventional songwriting style. Primo Amore is a world of sound in which a man is suspended between heaven and earth, life and death, light and darkness. The album is born from a profound search for meaning and develops around a fundamental question: who are we, really? The title "Primo Amore" refers to the moment when something is born and, at the same time, dies forever. It is there that everything becomes eternal. The album takes shape as a circular journey, an emotional trajectory that begins and ends where it began. After a brighter and more impulsive opening, the story gradually descends into a more interior and immersive dimension. Even in his writing, Mannarino chooses to subtract rather than add, seeking necessary words capable of restoring meaning rather than construction. From this disorientation comes a work permeated by an awareness of pain, yet sustained by energy, movement, and rhythm, experienced as an act of celebration of life. This is where the soul of the album comes from: a constant oscillation between opposites that coexist and chase each other. Good and evil, life and death, being and non-being, contraction and expansion. Primo Amore moves within this continuous dance suspended between reality and imagination, instinct and vision, in an unstable balance in which each song dialogues with the next. The songs thus become fragments of a single emotional and spiritual tale, traversed by everyday images, visionary impulses, and profoundly human tensions. There's a lot of Mannarino in this album: in the questions he asks, in the contradictions he accepts, in the search for a form of truth that isn't a definitive answer, but the traversal of things. Follow us on www.imusicfun.it #Mannarino #primoamore #imusicfun