MASSIMO ZAMBONI :: “P.P.P. PROFEZIA E’ PREDIRE IL PRESENTE” (PIER PAOLO PASOLINI – PROPHECY IS PREDICTING THE PRESENT) :: CD WITH 32-PAGE BOOKLET :: LE VELE – IGEA RECORDS / TERRE NATIVE :: RELEASE DATE: JANUARY 31, 2025 :: PRE-ORDER STARTS ON 27 JAN 2025 AT RIZOSFERA WEBSITE

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More than an album, a literary work transposed into music. More than songs, chapters that retrace and reconstruct a unique and controversial, precious and dramatic story. That of one of the greatest Italian intellectuals of all time, Pier Paolo Pasolini.

P.P.P. Prophecy is Predicting the Present is the new album by Massimo Zamboni, set to be released on Friday, January 31, by Le Vele – Egea Records in a special CD with a DVD-format digipack containing a 32-page booklet.

A multifaceted and richly textured album, just like the soul and thought of Pier Paolo Pasolini, to whom it is dedicated on the fiftieth anniversary of his murder. An album imbued with the profound civic pain that relentlessly accompanies P.P.P.’s journey as a man and an intellectual who was able to foresee and sense the dramatic and wrenching transformation of Italy.

Born from the namesake reading-concert project that alternates songs, readings from Pasolini, and texts written by Zamboni, P.P.P. Prophecy is Predicting the Present consists of thirteen tracks: folk songs, a tribute to Giovanna Marini, pieces drawn from Zamboni’s extensive musical journey, and three unreleased tracks (“La rabbia e l’hashish,” “Cantico cristiano,” and “Tu muori”) that lead down an increasingly dark, almost desolate path, accompanying Pasolini’s thoughts and the end of his thinking.

A multifaceted, elusive Pasolini, who faced insurmountable, inhumane enmities and equally fierce isolation. Yet, even today, 50 years after his murder, we cannot disregard his intelligence, his laser-like gaze capable of revealing profound compassion, concludes Zamboni.

A thematic narrative that begins in his Friuli, with the language Pasolini fought to elevate from the dignity erased by modernity, passing through the dismay towards collective blindness, placing a pre-political hope in the regenerative capacity of a people who can no longer be called such. An enthusiasm for the Portuguese revolution, one of the last positive upheavals of a continent, followed by decline, collapse, and diminishment. A final infatuation with defeat, culminating on November 2, 1975, when the night of Ostia definitively shattered what many wished to see broken: an unwelcome person, meant to be silenced, but whose words are now more present and necessary than ever. A thought that, despite numerous attempts, was not crushed by those who sought to diminish, impoverish, and simplify it. And which today appears more relevant than ever.