Amore E Salute

Descrizione

Chansonnier. That man that is equal parts age and class, full of wit, charm, irony and insight, who possesses a voice that is an exercise in persuasion in and of itself. The most recent album from FITNESS FOREVER focuses on this figure that has almost completely disappeared from the musical universe, and belongs to decades past. “Amore e Salute”, far from being an exercise in nostalgia, musically recreates the atmospheres that surrounded these characters and remembers the stories of some of them, many of whom we have met on the various advance singles. There is no way to talk about this album other than to go through the songs that play with funk and disco music from infinite perspectives, taking it around the world and filling it with the group’s trademark exuberant arrangements.

It all starts in Rome, in 2005. This is where our journey begins. A fascinating and experienced TV presenter takes a walk down the Villa Borghese. He is known for his ability to make connections between different disciplines, sensuality and religion, psychology and magic, unknown philosophy books and the news and bring them all together in a single coherent discourse. He is not alone ­– a young woman accompanies him; she seems to be hypnotized by his distracted way of walking, by the nervous gesticulations of his hands, which agitate the air with concepts and thoughts to make them tangible, a living material before their eyes.

In the next scene, they are sitting together romantically on a bench, facing a small pond with elegant swans, and kiss passionately as if it were a seal of their cosmic love that transcends logic, time and space. In this sensual and secret Rome, a city open to all ideas and possibilities, we find “La Porta Del Cuore”, the first of these stories on the album, and the gateway we will go through every time we want to take this journey with FITNESS FOREVER.