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Who would you dedicate your next album to? The next album will be called "The Power Station". It’s a spring time album. Attention is focussed on the Battersea Power Station and aeroplanes. You may ask yourself: which is the connection? Well, in "Gloucester Road" ideals were like trains, but trains travel on rails; this time instead ideals fly in the open sky like aeroplanes, but you need more energy to take off. Electrical power symbolises this energy, which is used with skill and wisdom (otherwise it doesn’t work), so here’s the power station. Watching things from the sky is also some kind of victory. Darkness and weakness are defeated. How is your relationship with other bands in Italy and the world? It’s always so nice to take part to compilations, splits and then write emails like "See you soon!! We must play a concert together!"... and then finally meet and play together. Many of our readers probably saw you feature in the Hate Rock documentary earlier this year, have you received added interest from supporters or from the media or police for doing this? The documentary obviously increased my sales, I must say it. I got interest from the media because of some indirect consequences of my exposure: I was fired from my job. I worked for an American filmmaker - I edited his videos for the web - in anonymity as agreed. An Italo-American journalist wrote an article full of fantasy revealing my co-operation with this filmmaker who decided to banish me from his team. He said I used the British media to help Berlusconi to make friends in Britain. He said I’m part of a game including the reporter and the producer of the documentary, my pressroom’s spokesman Magnus Torricelli and the NATO to encourage the production of weapons for military purposes. Ok, I have always encouraged this, but I’m not a member of the NATO, I help nobody in making friends and there’s no conspiracy game behind that documentary. My employer has always known who I am and what I do, so I was not fired because of my ideas directly, but because he is afraid my ideas can damage his work. He doesn’t share my same beliefs, but it was not important when I worked for him. He’s a good old man anyway. What are your aims for your musical future? Development of new styles, band projects or ? I’ll keep on writing music for myself and other musicians until I die. I don’t know if I will sing forever, I will maybe find somebody who will sing for me. I’m more interested in technical and backstage stuff rather than being the star, even if I love playing live and doing things with my own voice. I’d like to follow some musician and help. I want to play more progressive rock - this is what I’ll try in the next future - and there is also a band project, which started last year with the Canadian nsbm band Geimhre. We are working on a new album together, my role is playing flute, keyboards, singing female vocals and composing. The band has just released a new album called "Mollachd", so you can find me on it. Are you a member of any political groups or other organisations? Not yet. This question seems like a condemnation for me, but I think it’s ok, because I don’t want my music to be political or under some political category. I want to talk about what I think and about the things in which I believe, about my values in life and the things I love and I want to defend.
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