There is a room, in every house, where time accumulates in silence. Closed boxes, forgotten objects, dust covering photographs and fragments of a past we never truly processed. Don Antonio, a musician and producer from Romagna, has opened that room. Or rather, he returned to the house that raised him until he was twenty-five and began to dig. Among the lost objects, among the dust that settles like an emotional snowfall, he found his new album. It’s called “Dopo Tutto” , out July 10 on Santeria / Audioglobe, and it’s a work that doesn’t just tell memory: it questions it, excavates it, transforms it into sound.
The title is already a statement of intent. After everything, what remains? Traces remain. The objects we touched remain, the rooms we inhabited, the people we loved and who drifted away. A 1983 guitar remains, found piece by piece like a treasure hunt, becoming the symbol of a creative process that is also an act of personal reconstruction. Don Antonio – born Antonio Gramentieri, film score composer and musician with a career spanning collaborations with Nada, Vinicio Capossela, and Alejandro Escovedo – built the album like an archaeologist: layer by layer, emotion by emotion. Each opened box returns a memory that turns into a song. Each recovered object becomes the starting point for a narrative.
The music of “Dopo Tutto” moves in a border territory. On one side, the approach of Italian songwriting, rooted in folk and blues but always balancing on the contemporary. On the other, an exotic talking blues that crosses folklore and the shadows of the Eighties. Labels are unnecessary: what matters is the breath of the songs, their way of proceeding tentatively, advancing and retreating like human dialogue. Don Antonio recorded the album in Romagna and finalized it in Oregon, but geography is just a detail: the real journey is the one through memory, where the boundaries between past and present become increasingly blurred.
And there’s a radical choice that accompanies the album. “Dopo Tutto” is only released in physical format: vinyl, CD, and an original silkscreen work by Samuele Canestrari, illustrator and cartoonist who designed all the project’s covers. Only two singles – “Gozzano” and “Come Cadere” – and two album tracks – “Happiness” and “L’esatto peso dei sogni” – will be available on digital platforms. The rest, only in your hands. A countercurrent, almost stubborn decision that underlines the material nature of the record. Music, for Don Antonio, is not a file to stream. It’s an object to touch, to preserve, to inhabit.
The album will be presented in two iconic Romagna venues: July 9 at Clan Destino in Faenza (with Samuele Canestrari) and July 10 at Arena delle Balle di Paglia in Cotignola. The official release party is scheduled for July 22 at Forte Belvedere in Florence.
“Dopo Tutto” is an album that asks for time. You don’t listen to it while doing something else. You listen to it sitting down, hands holding the vinyl, eyes following Canestrari’s illustrations, mind going back in time. It’s a record about memory, certainly. But also about what memory cannot hold. About what remains after everything.
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