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It’s the time of the week that we highlight one of our favourite new releases. This time its Red by Sandro Bevilaqua. Read a little about the song in the artist’s own words. Then, listen to it once or fifty times!

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Song Background Information

This was pretty much my first completed work as a songwriter, and what it ended up becoming was sort of an overture, if you will, to the whole “Lila” EP. The thesis of the record at large was essentially an exploration of the whole “all’s fair in love and war” idea, and Red kicks it off by introducing a character who seems to have fallen into a pattern of seeking out companionship or romance—maybe for the wrong reasons—and suffering from a painful fallout each time.

In the period surrounding the writing of the song it seemed like a lot of people around me were going through some sort of fallout, and it felt as if there was something going on at some sort of collective subconscious level that I wanted to channel. As my close friends know, I’m inspired thematically by films like Richard Linklater’s Before Sunrise trilogy and Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me By Your Name, not only for their soundtracks and their gorgeous picturesque-bordering-on-dreamlike depictions of Western European summers (which I think appeal to the escapist fantasies of a lot of Americans in their twenties, especially right now!) but also for their not-so-surreal-at-all depictions of heartbreak.

The latter film has this one gut-wrenching scene towards the end where the father of Elio (the main character) is passing some wisdom onto him: “We rip out so much of ourselves to be cured of things faster than we should that we go bankrupt by the age of thirty and have less to offer each time we start with someone new.” Such a great line. I think a lot of people identified with that, and I think it partially informed this song and a couple others on the album.

I’m excited to tell you that I’m currently entering the recording process for a lot of new music, so follow me on socials/streaming services so you don’t miss out on anything! In the meantime, I encourage everybody to listen to Lila in its entirety (preferably start-to-finish, like the old days!)

All rights to the song used in this post are retained by Sandro Bevilaqua. The images used were provided by Sandro Bevilaqua and taken by Simón Yriberry.