It’s pretty rare that we get to hear new music from Italy, so discovering a band as good as Gli incubi di Freud felt like a gift from the gods! They’re primarily a rock band, although every song on new EP Diastole is slightly different, showing a set of musicians with a lot of talent! Find our interview with Joshua to find out more below!
By Jane Howkins
You recently released a new EP titled Diastole. What can you tell us about the record?
Diastole didn’t know he was already 10 years old at the time of his birth. The first drafts of the songs on this EP were written between 2012 and 2014, but only with the generic scare of the pandemic did I take courage to really refine the songs and found the band
Do you have any singles planned for release in the near future?
We are writing about new music to challenge ourselves again, other old songs are about to be revisited, and in the background there is an extra-musical challenge that could involve the project Gli incubi di Freud in literary guises… We’ll see!
Are there any plans for a full-length album anytime soon?
It’s too early to say, but it would be very nice to test ourselves with a nice concept album.
Your music is quite unique, mixing a few different genres together. What/who are you most influenced by?
I’m a very heterogeneous listener, I don’t like to obsess over just one genre. I learned this at the Sziget Festival, which I attended for a decade. And I think if I wrote in just one musical language, the inspiration would end up flattening. Feeder and Jimmy Eat World are the first names to which I would associate my ideal of musical composition, but of course I don’t try to be them – I try to put my Italian touch in.
What is the writing and recording process like?
It all starts, absurdly and unusually, from bass lines, on which I then write guitars, drum drafts and vocals. I submit everything to the band, with whom we correct and adjust where necessary, and then we go to the Ganapati Studio of our producer Frank Micucci, who gives his final approval on the arrangements and adds sound layers, before recording us.
You’re from Italy. What is the music scene like in your part of the world?
The situation of the Italian record and music market is currently almost dramatic. It is an issue that would require enormous social and cultural reform. Even the big names are struggling, the underground scene is left to its own devices with fierce competition and discouraging careerism. Those who make music at our level really do it for the love of art and music.
Do you have anything else exciting coming up in the next few months?
Surviving our fate, locking ourselves in the rehearsal room to do it, coming out better and with new songs. Nothing tremendously exciting but crucial!
Do you have any tour dates lined up for the UK?
Recommend us to some nice live clubs, we would also come swimming!
Any last words for the fans?
Remember us as nice wasters who, however, wanted to have fun and make people think with music.