Marat, a talented singer-songwriter arrives from the province of Rome

A young singer-songwriter originally from the province of Rome, she has made herself known in recent years by playing in various clubs in the capital and sometimes even on small tours of Italy, also performing in shows at theAuditorium of Rome organized by the cultural workshop Officina Pasolini is one of most interesting musical proposals of the Roman scene.

Marta Lucchesini aka Marat is an emerging singer-songwriter on her first album called "The Faces” (available on spotify), goes against the current with respect to the musical homologation operated by the great mainstream music channel with sounds and lyrics anything but trivial.

Following the interview released by Marat for First Art.

First of all, what inspired you for your stage name?

“I started from the anagram of my name, which is Marta, and the thing that sounded best was Marat, it struck me that it was also the surname of a famous French revolutionary but this does not mean that I embrace a songwriting role politician: I don't claim to teach someone something, I believe that communicating one's point of view is right, without however imposing it onl own audience like some songwriters or bands do. Making music is like making a painting, not a political rally.”

So, what exactly does making Music mean to you?

“It means doing the thing that comes most naturally to me, and therefore communicate to the best of my ability: for me it's a way to express one's point of view on reality in the most original way possible by striving to give a personal nuance to a real or fantastic fact, and when you really succeed it's simply magic.

The important thing is not necessarily that your words are understood or not but it is essential that your intentions are perceived through the vibrations of the music: in the piece "Special urgency” I try to narrate an episode of incommunicability, the urgency to communicate something, and specifically the protagonist of the song can't do it.

There will always be people who won't understand your songs just like there will always be someone who will listen and understand, after all, it is enough for the message to reach, even if to a few, this is already enough.”

Let's say you took your first steps at the Spaghetti Unplugged music evening and at the Officina Pasolini, how would you define the two experiences?

“I did some of the first live there 3 years ago at “Spaghetti Unplugged”, at the beginning I only started playing in front of a very select audience near my home, Monterotondo/Mentana, “Spaghetti” represents my first experience in Rome.

An important step for sure, because all of a sudden I found myself in front of only people I didn't know, and therefore I performed in front of a very attentive, interested audience, which is essential for any musician who performs on stage (however recent times the mood at Spaghetti has changed drastically).

Instead, at an evening presentation of Officina Pasolini at the local Asino che Vola in Rome I met the director Tosca who invited me to come to them, I was studying at Saint Louis College of Music but it was a wrong path for me at that moment, I then decided to go to the Conservatory.

Pasolini workshop it's not part of my beginnings, it is a forge of ideas from which I passed and from which I came out full of new suggestions, knowing people from a lot of different places in Italy, in my music there is so much of what happened there, it has been fundamental in my artistic career. ”

What are your plans for the future?

“I have some new songs and I would like to release my second album, to do so I plan to send material to record labels soon.
Right now I'm looking for someone who is interested in helping me financially/promotionally because to do this job at a certain point it is necessary to rely on people who help you in the promotion: I want to try to get this new record of mine out so that it is received by the music market in the most fair way possible.”

Finally, would you like to tell us from your point of view about the situation of music in Rome or in Italy compared to abroad?

“I think that the Italian musical situation is currently in a thriving moment, everyone can make music, however this is a double-edged sword because in such a musical chaos it can happen that you listen to a beautiful thing as well as a very ugly thing. For me, only those who really intend to communicate something should make music.

It goes without saying that if you write a pop song it's fine, it's not bad a priori, it just has less personality… I personally appreciate bands or soloists who have a strong musical characterization and who stand out from the crowd, in my opinion this is the key.

"La Representative Di Lista" for example manage to make intelligent lyrics that are successful wherever they go to play, it is a quality that the public perceives when those who make music are fully aware of their Art and above all of the strong will to do that specific thing, because he has a particular need to do it, this makes the difference. "