{"id":598672,"date":"2023-11-23T17:20:00","date_gmt":"2023-11-23T14:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/why-dave-stewart-partnered-with-italys-pink-floyd-for-a-modern-rock-opera\/"},"modified":"2023-11-23T17:20:00","modified_gmt":"2023-11-23T14:20:00","slug":"why-dave-stewart-partnered-with-italys-pink-floyd-for-a-modern-rock-opera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/why-dave-stewart-partnered-with-italys-pink-floyd-for-a-modern-rock-opera\/","title":{"rendered":"#Why Dave Stewart Partnered With \u201cItaly\u2019s Pink Floyd\u201d for a Modern Rock Opera"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\n At the beginning was a love story. <\/p>\n

\n Dave Stewart and his former life and stage partner, Annie Lennox, transformed their personal romance into fantastic, evergreen classics like \u201cSweet Dreams Are Made of This\u201d and \u201cHere Comes the Rain Again.\u201d <\/p>\n

\n After their breakup, Stewart, working in parallel with his new solo career, cultivated his love of film by composing several soundtracks. Together with Mick Jagger and Daryl Hall, he co-wrote the theme<\/a> song for the 1986 comedy Ruthless People<\/em> and has contributed songs to a variety of movies<\/a>, from Ted Demme\u2019s Beautiful Girls<\/em> (1996), Paul Verhoeven\u2019s Showgirls<\/em> (1995), and Robert Altman\u2019s Cookie\u2019s Fortune <\/em>(1999) to animated feature Madagascar 3 <\/em>(2012). <\/p>\n

\n More recently, Stewart has formed a new group called The Time Experience Project, teaming up with Italian band Mokadelic \u2014 whom Stewart first discovered after their work on the score to hit Italian series Gomorrah<\/em> \u2014\u00a0on a modern rock opera called \u201cWho to Love,\u201d with supporting lyrics provided by Italian actress Greta Scarano. The group presented their first 10-song album, along with a short film, directed by Giorgio Testi, at the Rome Film Festival in October. <\/p>\n

\n Next year, Stewart will be joining Bryan Adams on a 31-date U.S. tour, starting in January. <\/p>\n

\n Speaking to THR Roma<\/em>, Stewart calls Mokadelic \u201cthe modern Pink Floyd\u201d and said the video for the first song on the album, \u201cTime is a Masterpiece,\u201d just came out of him. \u201c[It was] just like what happened with \u201cSweet Dreams,\u201d says Stewart. \u201cIt brought to my mind the idea of someone losing track of himself and cognition of time.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n What does \u201cWho to Love\u201d mean to you?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n It\u2019s a project born out of spontaneity while hearing the music by Mokadelic on Gomorrah<\/em>\u2018s score and me freaking out over the music. It made my imagination go wild and I worked, wrote songs, asked if I could meet a great actor or actress and now it\u2019s amazing! We\u2019re all here with a project finished with a whole movie and with 10 songs and drama! It is one of those things where it manifests because of intention, it\u2019s the law of intent.<\/p>\n

\n How did you manage to get the Italian actress Greta Scarano to sing?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n Well, I knew she could play drums so I knew she understood rhythm and everything musical. And she\u2019s an actress, a great actress. So I just did a test with her, just as COVID was happening. I sent her something and asked her to sing along with that, and she did and sent it back to me and I could tell, \u201cOK, it\u2019s going to be good.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n Is Greta better at singing or acting?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n She\u2019s an actress, I mean she\u2019s an incredible actress, and like many actresses or actors, when they have to be doing something like singing or whatever, you know they have a strange way of learning and adapting and are usually pretty good, and Greta is really good at it.<\/p>\n

\n This project has been called a rock opera but it seems more like an electronic project.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n Rock has become a very obscure kind of label to call something. You can call Depeche Mode an electronic group but it\u2019s like a rock electronic group. I think it\u2019s because it\u2019s a group of people, myself and Mokadelic. It is like an electronic opera but I\u2019m also playing guitar on it, so it\u2019s like, what do you call it?<\/p>\n

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Italian band Mokadelic<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a9Mokadelic<\/cite><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

\n Why did you decide to turn this record into a short film as well?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n It was at the very beginning, as soon as I had the first song \u201cTime is a Masterpiece.\u201d As soon as I had that idea, the concept came to me about somebody losing track of themselves but then also losing track of time. I could see it in my head, and I did it like \u201cSweet Dreams,\u201d one of Eurythmic\u2019s songs. I immedia<\/a>tely saw the video of Annie and the cow coming into the room and you know, the whole surrealism.<\/p>\n

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