"La vita nova" film by Antonella Eye Porcelluzzi Soundtrack COME TODAY
TRAILER:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3ISO_qhEaw
"we very much admired the film's adventurous spirit and bold form" Daniel Kasman, MUBI
The love story between Dante Alighieri and Beatrice is worldly famous, immortalized in Dante’s whole work of poetry. This film is dedicated to La Vita Nova, the juvenile work where Dante describes the story of his meeting with Beatrice, first as a child and then as a young woman, This film sketches the essential traits of the spiritual union between the two, lasting throughout all Dante’s life and over the centuries.
The Albums originating from the film as soundtracks
For what concerns the sound-track(s) of the film, this element constitutes the peculiarity of the LA VITA NOVA PROJECT.
Given the intense musical activity of the project’s author (AEP), music naturally formed a crucial point of the work from its beginning.
The film gave origin to two distinct music-works, the reason why we are releasing also the film by a music label, Scott Boatright’s « Sounds from the Corridor ».
« The album « La Vita Nova » by Simone Santarsiero’s UZBAZUR, is the soundtrack of my film in its Original Version. This album was especially born to accompany the film in its projections and shows. It is a subtle and poetic work in experimental electronics and dark-ambient sound. My choice of the young talented Simone was also influenced by the fact that he comes from Tuscany as Dante.
The « Come Today » Album keeps a quite legendary story in itself. A first part of it was born when I trusted Wilfried Hanrath, experimented German composer and interpreter in various music styles, with my voice-recordings of Dante’s sonnets. This encountering produced some main tracks (one is with Matt Gretchell). Then Wilfried felt the need for a third-part-intervention, the meeting with the Anonymous Masses, the group by Klaus Siepmann, and his songs inspired by the work of the american collective The Residents. The resulting album « Come Today », forms a non-homogeneous, singular and still harmonic combination of the jazzy-soul music by Hanrath on the old Italian in Antonella’s interpretation of Dante’s sonnets, with the modernist avant-garde influence brought by Siepmann: « Come Today » was born, quite a musical journey (You’ll find the album’s continuity in the bonus tracks, which we recommend in order to get the spirit of this record at its best).
Come today is an alternative soundtrack for my film too: two albums and a film, LA VITA NOVA PROJECT is this. « (AEP 2019)
An anecdote, Come Today came from Wilfried Hanrath’s nice and creative misunderstanding of « Come Tu Dei », which in the ancient Italian by Dante, spoken by Antonella in her songs, means « As you have to ».