Interview: Lorenzo Gabanizza Shares Insights on His Musical Journey

After Lorenzo Gabanizza’s uniquely written EP  “Someone waiting at their door” was released, we caught up with an insightful interview with such a talented artist to explore his eidetic experience and what he had to say about his incredible musical journey so far. Read below to learn some interesting details about Lorenzo Gabanizza

Thank you for joining us today – Congratulations on the release of your EP “Someone waiting at their door”! How are you feeling about sharing this EP with the world?

Excited? And also grateful to all those people who have allowed the realization of this Ep. In particular, the musicians and staff who have collaborated, my dear friend and editor John Toso, the great fiddler Ian Cameron and the engineer Don Tyler, who has worked with Bob Dylan, one of my myths of all time. And Well, a great deal of people involved as Lydia Walis, Jennifer Dimer, Xenia, Stefano Bedini, Luca Legrenzi, and many others.

What led you to pursue a career in country music?

It’s not like I’ve pursued a career in country music. I don’t have a specific genre because I prefer to use my whole “chromatic scale”. I had the luck of having two parents loving music and having a terrific vinyl collection ranging from classical to hard rock. So, for me, at 5, it was normal to listen to Chopin, Mahalia Jackson, Elvis Presley, Jethro Tull, Led Zeppelin. Therefore, when I write music, I draw on all my baggage (including literary knowledge). In fact, I believe that music should not have limits, just as the artist at work should not be limited by preconceptions. I find labels limiting, disappointing. And harmful to the artist. If you browse my discography, you will realize that there is no genre linearity and this is due to the fact that I believe as I have already said, that an artist should use all the scale of his knowledge and emotions.

What’s your first memory of the guitar and what’s the first song you ever learned to play?

The first time I played the guitar I was 11 if I’m not mistaken. I started playing guitar because I wanted to be independent. I was already playing keyboard and drums, but the guitar seemed to me the most suitable instrument to for my compositions – and also the least noisy as my neighbors were not so happy with my drums exercising… There was no first song. I remember that I spent the first few days making my fingers bleed to learn the basic chords of a bouquet of songs, and then, writing in a notebook all the chords of the songs I preferred: Yellow river, Eloise, Candida, Roly Poly, Can’t help falling in love, I am I said, New Morning etc.

What’s the motivation behind your upcoming album “All the words we never said” and when can we expect it?

The meaning of this album is very clear from the title. There are words, meanings, feelings, truths we never tell, for various reasons. This album, therefore, chooses transparency and touches on burning and social topics such as George Floyd’s death, prejudice, violence, racism, but also feelings, depths never described before by myself; after all, freeing oneself from shields and preconceptions, for an artist, is, in my opinion, the true achievement of artistic maturity.

If you are asked to collaborate with a renowned musician, whose name will you write down?

Well, I have no problem collaborating with other artists, but it’s not my priority. I am always positive with this kind of things I mean. If I must mention someone, the most of them are dead, like John Lennon, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Chester Bennington. The alive squad is composed by Jeff Christie, Barry Ryan Mike Shinoda, Bob Dylan, Neil Diamond, Kate Bush, David Gates, Johnny Rivers, John Carter…All people who surely don’t need my input.

What is one message you would give to your fans?       

Never give up on your dreams. Keep your feet on the ground but your soul high flying.

Are you working independently or with any production house or recording label?

At the moment I am working with an independent label. The album will be released under Nashville label AOK Records and Productions, under the production and management of Adam and Angel Knight. I will get amazing musicians in studio, so I am very excited to start working on this and I hope you people are eager to hear the final product as much as I am.

Thank you for speaking with us! For our final question, is there anything else you would like to add?

Follow me on my channels, listen my music on spotify, apple or any other platform and if you like what you hear, give me one like. It’s never said enough, especially in times like these, that the artist’s salary is the consensus of his audience. In the end, the magic of this profession is precisely this: by writing a song, we give to the audience a part of our heart and that piece of the heart becomes part of them and keeps beating when it touches their sensitivity. Success does not belong to the artist, but to his audience because without an audience, we are nothing; we are, as a Zen proverb said, like a man trying to clap with one hand.

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