Interview – CAPAREZZA “Orbit Orbit” a cosmic journey between music and comics, where imagination becomes freedom

With “Orbit Orbit”, Caparezza opens a new chapter in his career: a total, conceptual and visual work, which combines music and comics in a single narrative universe.

After having explored imprisonment (Prisoner 709) and escape (Exuvia), the artist now arrives at a third dimension: the freedom of the imagination. A concept album that was born from a personal and creative blackout – marked by his personal experience with tinnitus and progressive hearing loss – and finds the spark of a rebirth in comics.

In the comic book of the same name, written by himself, and in the album that is its sound extension, Caparezza constructs a story on two levels: the real and the fantastic, the body and the mind, fear and creation. The album, divided into fourteen tracks like chapters of a graphic novel, intertwines electronics, orchestra and spoken word in a journey that combines philosophy and science fiction, intimacy and theatre.

“Orbit” becomes the very sound of imagination, a cosmic vibration that becomes freedom. Thus Caparezza reinvents himself — once again — as a total author, fusing languages ​​and visions, and delivering a work that goes beyond the confines of the record to become a sensorial and narrative experience.

A return that is not nostalgia, but pure evolution.

THE INTERVIEW

Orbit Orbit

In comics there is everything: imagination, real world and parallel world, thought and vision. But something was missing: a sound, an onomatopoeia that represented the very act of imagining. “Orbit” is the word I made up for this. For me, imagining is floating, hovering in the creative void. It's a gesture of absolute freedom, and I wanted the title to have that light and cosmic vibration. “Orbit” is the sound of imagination.

There's no point in hiding. I started to lose my hearing. It's a very common problem among musicians, but when it happens to you, something collapses inside you. For me music was a mission, a reason for living. And suddenly, everything I loved—the concerts, the listening, the creation itself—became a source of fear. I thought, “If I turn up the volume, I'll still lose a piece of myself.” And at that point I no longer understood who I was or what I was doing. It was a blackout, literally and metaphorically.

From a blackout a new beginning was born, with comics

Comics saved my life. It was my first passion, never completely abandoned but remained in the shadows. I started going to festivals, interviewing cartoonists, fanboying over cartoonists. At Lucca Comics I found myself smiling like I hadn't in years. I realized that feeling of joy was the key. I studied screenwriting, read compulsively, and wrote my first comic. It was just supposed to be a comic. Then music arrived, like a natural glue. And from there Orbit was born.

The record and the comic are two parts of the same story

They are intertwined, like two planes of the same reality. The comic begins backstage, after a concert, where the protagonist – who is me, but also not – doesn't remember who he is. He takes refuge in a cocoon-shaped dressing room and faints. Two tracks start from there: the real one, where there is a fainted singer, and the fantastic one, where that cocoon becomes a spaceship traveling in space. Every vibration in the real world has an effect in the imaginary world: a vibrating cell phone becomes an earthquake, a photographic flash a supernova. It is a constant dialogue between reality and fantasy.

Freedom, but in a very different way from the past

After two albums about imprisonment – internal and social – I felt the need to talk about freedom. But not the political or physical one, which always has a limit. The only authentic freedom, for me, is that of the imagination. It is something that no one can take away from us, not even illness, not even fear. It is my anchor and my cure. Orbit is the celebration of that inner freedom that allows us to exist even when everything else collapses.

A journey into the sound space of the 70s and 80s

It's my “space music”. I was inspired by those bands that made me dream as a child: Kraftwerk, Rockets, Space, Ganymed, Droids, Lords of the Galaxy. That electronic, visionary, theatrical music, made up of performances and futuristic scenarios. It is my homage to an imagination that shaped me, but which this time I wanted to treat in a coherent, non-schizophrenic way as in my previous records. It is a homogeneous journey into the cosmos, between synthesizers and nostalgia.

THE TRACKLIST

I float, I orbit
The planet of ideas
I am the journey
Darktar
A comic book saved my life
The auctioneer
Autovorbit
Curiosity (Beyond the Glow)
The eyes of the mind
Like electronic music
The NDE
Pathosphere
Cosmoshipwrecked
Pearlified

INSTORE

Thursday 30 October // LUCCA COMICS & GAMES >>> SERGIO BONELLI PAVILION Piazza Antelminelli 4.00pm – 7.00pm
Friday 31 October // LUCCA COMICS & GAMES >>> SERGIO BONELLI PAVILION Piazza Antelminelli 1.30pm – 3.30pm and 5.30pm – 7.00pm
Saturday 1 November // LUCCA COMICS & GAMES >>> SERGIO BONELLI PAVILION Piazza Antelminelli 11:00 – 13:00 and 16:30 – 18:30
Sunday 2 November // BOLOGNA >>> Feltrinelli Via Ravegnana 4pm
Monday 3 November // TURIN >>> Feltrinelli P.zza CLN at 5pm
Tuesday 4 November // MILAN >>> Feltrinelli Viale Pasubio at 5pm
Wednesday 5 November // VERONA >>> Feltrinelli Via Quattro Spade at 5pm
Thursday 6 November // FLORENCE >>> Feltrinelli Piazza della Repubblica at 5pm
Friday 7 November // ROME >>> Laziale Disco at 4pm
Saturday 8 November // NAPLES >>> Feltrinelli Garibaldi Station at 4pm
Sunday 9 November // TARANTO >>> Feltrinelli Via Federico di Palma at 4pm
Monday 10 November // BARI >>> Feltrinelli Via Melo at 5pm
Friday 14 November // PALERMO >>> Feltrinelli Via Cavour at 5pm
Saturday 15 November // CATANIA >>> Feltrinelli Via Etnea at 5pm
Sunday 16 November // CAGLIARI >>> Feltrinelli Via Roma at 4pm
Monday 17 November // SASSARI >>> Festival Till you read me mad – Tavolara Pavilion 6.30pm
Sunday 23 November // MOLFETTA >>> Clinic Music Store 4pm

Caparezza will tour in 2026

26 JUNE ROME – ROCK IN ROME
27 JUNE FLORENCE – FLORENCE MUSIC FESTIVAL
04 JULY MANTOVA – MANTOVA SUMMER FESTIVAL – PIAZZA SORDELLO
07 JULY BOLOGNA – SEQUOIE MUSIC PARK – SOLD OUT
08 JULY BOLOGNA – SEQUOIE MUSIC PARK
11 JULY COLLEGNO (TO) – FLOWERS FESTIVAL – SOLD OUT
12 JULY PADUA – SHERWOOD FESTIVAL
15 JULY MILAN – MILAN MUSIC PARK
17 JULY SERVIGLIANO (FM) – NOSOUND FEST
18 JULY FRANCAVILLA (CH) – SHOCKWAVE FESTIVAL
24 JULY GENOA – BALENA FESTIVAL
25 JULY CATTOLICA (RN) – ARENA DELLA REGINA
01 AUGUST CAMPOBASSO – NUOVO ROMAGNOLI EVENTS AREA
05 AUGUST LECCE – OVERSOUND MUSIC FESTIVAL – CAVE DEL DUCA
07 AUGUST CATANIA – SOTTO IL VULCANO FEST – VILLA BELLINI
08 AUGUST PALERMO – DREAM POP FESTIVAL – VELODROMO
12 AUGUST CINQUALE (MS) – VIBES SUMMER FESTIVAL
13 AUGUST BRESCIA – RADIO ONDA URTO PARTY
16 AUGUST MAJANO (UD) – MAJANO FESTIVAL
22 AUGUST ALGHERO (SS) – ALGUER SUMMER FESTIVAL – ANF. IVAN GRAZIANI
04 SEPTEMBER BARI – OVERSOUND MUSIC FESTIVAL – LEVANTE FAIR
05 SEPTEMBER CASERTA – PALACE OF CASERTA, PIAZZA CARLO DI BORBONE

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