If Sardinia were a color «it would be dark green but also reddish, like the earth. A wild, ancestral land».
And then «I also see it as floral. If I think of De Andrè's Agnata I think of the colors of the flowers, but if I also think of Arbatax where I had one of the most beautiful concerts of my life, I also think of an almost lunar landscape».
Marco Castoldi, 50 years old, alias Morgan, releases love for Sardinia where he is preparing to land in the next few days for a mini tour of two dates . On the day of the Epiphany, Friday 6 he will be with his piano recital at the Bflat in via del Pozzetto in the Quartiere del sole in Cagliari in a double set at 9.30pm and 10.30pm. The same place and same times are repeated on Saturday 7th too. A tempting opportunity to listen to old and new songs by the histrionic artist who has also recently trod the X Factor stage again.
How much love Marco for Sardinia!
«Yes, I'm so attached to this island, I've come many times, almost always to play. I remember Sassari, where I taught at the University, a beautiful city in my opinion with a great youth culture. Here the Sardinian culture is very important. And then that tribute to De Andrè at the Cagliari Amphitheater in 2002. Without forgetting that the mother of one of my daughters is from Olbia. And I must say that in the idea of Mediterranean women, Sardinian women are the most beautiful».
What concert will he give to the public?
«I am a musician who does not repeat himself and I have a sensitivity that connects me to the moment. I don't conceive a concert as a repetition, but as a rethinking of music every time. Producing music in the studio, building it and releasing it is something fixed while going to a concert is about testing the real and real look. I invent music, I'm an inventor. I like to build a contraption where the songs are always new in arrangement or whatever. It will be three different concerts with my musical ideas from the last fifteen years and beyond».
He also recently returned to X Factor: what is your relationship with this talent?
“That talent has turned into many different things. I did several editions and won five».
A record?
«Here! So much so that I entered the Guinness Book of Records as the judge who won the most editions in the world and this thing was not recognized in Italy. This is why I have a somewhat controversial relationship with talent. I brought people closer to music and in response the recording world kicked me out. They cut me off from X Factor because they couldn't stand my excellence, instead of thanking me they kicked me out. Let's say then that I have become more of a TV personality and my being a songwriter has been affected by it».
Sanremo, on the other hand, is a closed chapter or are you thinking of returning?
“I don't know if it's a closed chapter. Sanremo has been run by the same people for years, it has been monopolized, when I think it deserves to be transformed. It seems strange to me, but nobody says anything. We come from a period in which people were terrified with the Covid issue, today they are afraid of anything, so how can you think of a cultural and artistic life in a country that is afraid of ideas?».
If you look back over these fifty years, is there anything you wouldn't do again?
"I don't look back, I look forward. Mine is a line that goes forward. I am connected with the future even if the future does not exist. I have so many projects. Of disclosure and music. I'm on the trail of myself."
