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The Obelisk Questionnaire: Angelo Mirolli of Le Scimmie

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How do you define what you do and how did you come to do it?

I live music in a very visceral way, the guitar is a branch of my brain. All my works are born during long jam sessions.

My mom gave me a guitar when I was fourteen but she didn’t force me to play it.

For a year it gathered dust. Then one day while I was stretched out in bed I stared at it and a spark broke out in me. From then on everything came very spontaneously and music became my life: I chose a free and uncompromising life, so my music will always be.

Describe your first musical memory.

Music came into my life about two years before I started playing guitar.

I spent entire afternoons closed in my room listening to the radio and recording my favorite songs on audiotape, I remember it as one of the best times of my life.

Describe your best musical memory to date.

Definitely the first European tour of Le Scimmie in 2012.

I was 22 and it was a fantastic experience as well an unique training experience.

Playing your music away from home for so many nights in a row is the best thing for a musician, I think.

When was a time when a firmly held belief was tested?

Losing my mom when I was 18 shattered all my beliefs.

She was whole my family. Today I only believe in myself and in the good things and the bad things that people can do.

Where do you feel artistic progression leads?

Leads to knowing yourself better and better and to understand what you are and what the places where you live are capable of giving you.

How do you define success?

I think that true success is never compromising. Always being yourself is the real victory. Not chasing success at any cost is the key.

What is something you have seen that you wish you hadn’t?

I didn’t want to see the violence that some people do to other people.

Describe something you haven’t created yet that you’d like to create.

Definitely the next album!

What do you believe is the most essential function of art?

I think that art is the artist’s outlet and the sign of his passage on Earth.

Something non-musical that you’re looking forward to?

Live a peaceful life.

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Le Scimmie, Adriatic Desert (2023)