16/03/2026
After almost three years, I want to tell you a little story behind my first vinyl record, 12th May.
Track B1 is called Trust.
It was born in one of those moments when life forces you to take stock. After an accident, I went through a period of amnesia and felt completely dull and confused. My old master, Andrea Merlini, called me every day. One evening he said, “Aooooo! Never stop. Make a track for yourself, show me why it can't end here.” At the time, I had an old record of my grandmother's with me. I don't know if it was from '62, '64, or '67, but it was a Fairuz record that I always jealously guarded, even though I didn't know it at the time. Between 2022 and 2023, I was always surrounded by people, but it was precisely there that I discovered the power of solitude. And in that solitude, after the accident, Fairuz's voice kept me company more than anyone else.
That's why I decided to take a small sample of her voice and put it in "Trust," at the deepest point of the track.
My voice was the synths. Hers was the soul. And sometimes I think that, if it weren't for that voice, maybe I would have stopped a few years ago.
And I wouldn't have written music anymore.
The song that inspired me is: El Yom 'Ulliqa 'Ala Khashaba- Fairuz. Everyone who's listened to "Trust" asks me whose voice it is. I've always answered: "A friend of mine."
And that's where art is born.
