Tiziano International

January 16th 2004

And I’m on my way back home, another endless journey, Mexico City to Rome via Frankfurt. 

I enjoyed myself like crazy, I’m starting to make friends and everyone’s very kind. I’m the only Italian of the faculty, I found a place to stay, in Cuernavaca, known as the “City of Eternal Spring”: good fortune, I guess. Strange to say it, but despite the weariness I feel relaxed and ready to work.

Evidently this experience, even though physically exhausting, is giving me a charge. And then when the commitments become less frequent, I’ll be able to avoid these long voyages. I’ve often wanted to throw myself on food, but I’ve been distracted by having a thousand things to do, and by the new knowledge. I think the written Spanish exam went well. I’ll check the result in a few days on the internet, but - not to be presumptuous - I have no doubt that I passed it without difficulty, the grammatical questions were pretty easy.

In any case I could never move to a country that didn’t have a culture that’s so ancient, so strong and has such high quality comida [food]. This too contributes to my love for Mexico… and it feels right!

Another reason I’m happy is that I got the songwriting going again. The first of a series of songs was born that I hope will become my third album. The first title that has sprung forward: Ti scatterò una foto.

And aside from this, Centoundici is going BY GOD, currently at #2 in the charts, we’ve achieved double platinum and Sere nere remains fixed at #1 on the radio: I couldn’t ask for more or better.

We’ve decided, with Marco, Rebecca, Andrea, Anna and Monica, that on the 30th we’ll have a goodbye party before I leave for Mexico in a more definitive manner. I’m not convinced that my friends have taken the news of my departure well, same goes for my parents, but they respect it. And I appreciate that they support my choice even though I know that deep down they don’t share it. They suffer for me, I can see it in their eyes, also because I know they’ve understood that my choice is only an escape. And not knowing what to do, or what to advise me, they support what my instinct has suggested to me. I look at the people I love, I know that they’re unhappy because of my decision, I feel that they’d want to tell me: “If you have to go, go… but come back soon, as soon as you can.”

As I write this I get emotional. I don’t know if they’re tears of affection or despair. I go back and forth.

2004 has definitely started well.

January 27th 2006

Flying towards my weekend, while the album is coming along well. We’re recording Ti scatterò una foto, a song that no one has been paying attention to (except me!!!) but that I think will become fundamental for the course of this album. 

Just between me and the journal: I think that it’s gone very well. Michele hears a great deal of what I ask him and after many years it seems that we’ve found a way to communicate fluidly, almost perfect I’d say. He understands my needs even before I can express them and we’re completely in sync. Serenity reigns in the studio, we proceed at a fast pace, we laugh, everything’s nice, exciting and relaxing.

I enjoy working like this, and I think that the album will reflect the positive atmosphere that we breathe in the studio. I adore the coded language that Michele and I have created and perfected over the years of hard work together.

I haven’t seen Marco and Anna for a long time, it’s as if I’m not there for them and they’re not there for me, something that hurts me deeply.

Now I have to distract myself, take my mind off of it, so I’m going to sing Stop! Dimentica in Spanish: Stop! Olvidate.

November 23rd 2006

A week of relaxing at home is about to begin, how nice!

Yesterday I finished shooting the video for Ti scatterò una foto, in Rome. The images look very nice and the atmosphere on the set was relaxed and evocative. Laura Chiatti was a big surprise from all points of view: beautiful, very nice and positive.

We had a great time together and it’s also thanks to her that the takes were so pleasant for me, despite the incessant rain and [Riccardo] Scamarcio [the male actor in the film and video], who deserted the set at the last moment. This behavior puzzled me, but I imagine he had his reasons.

I feel stimulated by the production meetings with the designers that will be working on the tour: if everything goes according to plan, it will be a real show, dynamic and innovative.

I am exhausted.