There are artists who must be left free to float and make art. Artists who travel in the meanders of experimentation and creativity free from market logic, specific algorithms and other alchemies dictated by the market.
Caparezza is one of these wandering bodies: author, craftsman of ideas, dismantler of language and its conventions. Each of his works is a seismic shock in the Italian musical panorama, a fracture that opens up new fault lines of meaning. With “Orbit Orbit” this tension finds its maximum expansion: a sonic, visual and symbolic journey that unites music and comics, reality and imagination, in a narrative unicum outside of time and the market.
This album is the result of a painful and necessary journey. Caparezza has defined it, on several occasions, as a sort of “creative therapy”: the artistic response to a physical and psychological trauma, that of tinnitus and partial hearing loss. It is from that void that the universe of “Orbit Orbit”: first a comic, then an album, both created to give shape to silence, to fill it with figures, sounds and stories. The artist, in this sense, does not compose: he recomposes himself.
The fourteen songs, like the chapters of a graphic novel, trace a mental path, an internal migration. Each track is a journey, each word a fragment of a larger cosmos that reveals itself listen after listen. There is within it the corrosive irony that has always distinguished Caparezza, but also a new emotional gravity, a more intimate urgency. The language remains dense, played on double meanings, images and references, but here it takes on a different weight: more lyrical, more adult, less satirical and more introspective.
“Orbit Orbit” it's a human science fiction album. An experiment that feeds on the conceptual tradition of Italian progressive music and the visual culture of comics, to build a parallel world where each song is an episode of a larger story. The result is a work that resists classification: rap, electronic, theatre, poetry, psychedelia, spoken word. Everything coexists in an unstable but coherent balance, as if Caparezza were the director of a film that is not satisfied with just one language.
Of course, it's not a simple album. It's dense, verbose, layered. It demands attention, perhaps even effort. But it is precisely there, in its complexity, that the reward lies. “Orbit Orbit” it is not a record for compulsive streaming, but for immersion: listening that requires slowness, concentration and above all curiosity.
Caparezza continues to be a unique case in Italian music: an artist who does not repeat himself, does not please himself, does not adapt. A thinker disguised as a rapper, a humanist who uses the beat as a magnifying glass. With this album he reminds us that creativity, when authentic, can also be a therapeutic act.
Orbit Orbit it is the demonstration that healing comes through creation. It's the sound of a man who, after losing some of his hearing, learned to listen better.
Thank you, Caparezza. Not for entertaining us, but for forcing us to think once again
TRACK BY TRACK
I float, I orbit
A monumental overture, suspended between electronics and symphonism, which opens the doors of the inner cosmic journey. Caparezza goes into orbit.
The planet of ideas
Beating percussion and visionary lyrics for a hymn to the mind as a creative laboratory, where thoughts become sound material.
I am the journey
The single manifesto: pulsating rhythm and philosophical introspection come together in a song that talks about identity as continuous movement.
Darktar
Dark and theatrical portrait of the most victimized humanity. A comic book character that becomes a psychological mirror, between distorted grooves and sharp irony.
A Comic Book Saved My Life
The soul of the record. Caparezza tells his story through his tables of salvation: three autobiographical moments in which art acted as a shield to reality. Exciting and revealing.
The auctioneer
Homage to Enzo Del Re: minimal rhythm, onomatopoeia and fighting spirit. A cover that amplifies the link between tradition and experimentation.
Autovorbit
Introspective journey into the infinite loop of thought: granular electronics, hypnotic rhymes and a constant sense of mental rotation.
Curiosity (Beyond the Glow)
Homage to curiosity as a vital drive, embellished by the real voice of astronaut Maurizio Cheli. A lesson in humanity between stars and silences.
The eyes of the mind
Surprising sampling of Deliri by Gianni Morandi, reworked in a psychedelic key. Between irony and pop metaphysics.
Like electronic music
Generational manifesto: looking ahead without nostalgia, transforming time into creative energy. Modern, shiny, necessary.
The NDE
An out-of-body experience translated into music. Minimalism and intensity for a reflection on life seen from the outside.
Pathosphere
Dense and spiritual ballad. Caparezza invites us to recover empathy in an anesthetized world: a deep breath into inhumanity.
Cosmoshipwrecked
Tight bars and a galloping rhythm for a return to Earth imbued with disenchantment. The astronaut becomes a metaphor for the contemporary self.
Pearlified
Choral and luminous finale: 76 voices for a hymn to creation as an act of resistance. Caparezza closes the circle with a collective and vital vision.
SCORE: 7.25
TO LISTEN NOW
A comic book saved my life – Autovorbit – Perlificat
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The album is unique to listen to from start to finish. Maybe even with the comic!
