Hi Ozzo! Your project particularly focused our interest as we share your origins in Milan’s hinterland, and we are friends of Rho’s Rock’n’Roll Club, too…:)
What does Milan’s province represent for you?
Hi guys! I’m not a “ghetto boy wannabe” saying suburbs is my life. Since I was young, I have tried as much as I could to spend all my free time in Milan (the biggest city closer to my town). I used to spend my time there looking for vinyl records, CDs and t-shirts in three of the greatest places I’ve ever been: the “Fiera di Senigallia” close to the Navigli, Zabrienskie Point (vinyl and CD store specialized in Punk) and Transex (CD and vinyl record store specialized in metal).
Your music interestingly mixes different styles and genres. Can you explain us, which are your music roots?
You are right, the oZZo project mixes up all my music influences, from dubstep to dance, from rock to pop and Trap (yes I’ve said trap ,) looking for new sound experiences, and of course, right from my background Bring Me the Horizon and 30 Seconds to Mars.If I look back in my life this is not so strange because when I was young I used to listen and play metal music like Metallica, Iron maiden, Slayer, then I found out Bad Religion and Pennywise with the great 90’s melodic hardcore, and few years later Beastie Boys and Cypress Hill.I was constantly looking for inspiration from other genres. “Contamination” is my music style.My last project “Audrey” has the seeds of this kind of music style inside, especially in the last album “Lost in Promises” you can see the roots of the new Ivano oZZo Tomba.
Pastislost is your last project, your debut EP. Which are the main themes you wanted to develop in this record?
Let’s start from the beginning: the title. It’s #pastislost, with the hashtag and not Past is lost or Pastislost.It’s a sort of statement, you are what you are only if you have a virtual life on social networks or if you have been shared a thousand times. This is my introduction to my audience but behind the title, there’s a bigger and deeper concept. The time passing by and the missing of the person after the breakup (friendship, love, death, never mind)The video clip of As Fast As You Can is an example, you can watch it as a teenage love story (like Beverly Hills 90210) or if you are smart, you can find out many secret messages inside.
How has the collaboration with Alessio Corrado started?
I have known Alessio for 20 years or even more, in our first event as oZZo he reminded me we had played 23 years before that gig. A couple of years ago I finished writing my first single Nothing But You (pastislost), I thought it was just a game, a sort of birthday present for myself. I met Alessio as always in Rho’s Rock’n’Roll club and drinking a Montenegro while I was complaining to him about the needs of a singer he told me he could sing my stuff. I’m honest saying I was really, really puzzled by Alessio being the singer of the project. I wasn’t scared of Alessio singing the vocals, but I was afraid I could be seduced and abandoned eheheThe name of the project (that’s my nickname too) is Alessio fault! He told me the same night: you have a logo (oZZo) as designer, photographer and fashion victim, you already have merchandise with oZZo’s logo, so that’s it. We have the name.I needed a break with the past even with the band name, I was still focused on my last band target, so the name could be something like “Seduced by a Kiss” or “Lost in Promises”- (quoting Audrey). Alessio helped me forget my last delusions and begin a new chapter.
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