Talking about lyrics, can you please explain what is the meaning behind the title “Triesteitaliana”?
I have asked many of my Italian friends to explain and they all said that there is not a specific meaning associated with it. Carmelo: Trieste is a town at the borders with Slovenia, which remained split in 2 parts for 5 years after the war, just like Berlin was. And it’s the place where the name ‘Iron Curtain’ was coined. Churchill believed the Communist invasion of Europe would have happened through Trieste. One day I saw an old documentary about it on TV and as it finished, it paused on a road signpost with ‘Trieste Italiana’ written on it, as to limit the Italian side of the town. It was touchy and for some reasons, it remained impressed in my mind! Your compositions were always based on simple riffs and vocal/guitar melodies as far as I’m concerned and, even though this release certainly doesn’t lack either accessibility or straightforwardness, this is the first time that I personally felt that more ‘secrets’ are to be revealed to me with every new spin. Was that part of your gene
