Ultimo
Pianeti

Niccolò Moriconi, known as Ultimo, reveals himself with this album (Pianeti indeed). The constant, chronic, intrinsic depression of a society that is now tired, eager for strong currents of thought, rises powerfully in these songs and does so in a veiled but explicit way. Many times we have asked ourselves: "Why should a young guy who sings about life and love (like all artists do, after all) be so beloved?" Well, truthfully there are also other young singers who are also loved, or personally, considered unlistenable by me, but I don't think that's the point. He manages to fill the Olimpico in Rome... in short, nothing to do with the other young guys I have not mentioned. The truth is that young people and adults see something special in his songs: the former feel close to him, they live it as if he were the famous friend who could go out to the pub with them in the evening, the latter see him as "a serious one" among a sea of noise.

Chiave: a song that stands "in the middle", between the debut Ultimo who rapped and the melodic Ultimo who now still sings. The great suffering of those who lose someone or something is emphasized. A love, a friendship, anything. The song's video hints at an infinite desolation that places the subjects at the center: unique, special, devoid of conformity. All different and singular. As we all are. In the end, this song too is told for them. For us unique individuals. For each of us.

Pianeti: highlighting the wait for someone (that person!) we yearn for and at the same time the fact of being last. What we often live: we wait for someone, we wait for that person, we wait for something that we eventually don't believe can arrive because we feel last. But perhaps we aren't really.

Sabbia: love dominates in this song, it dominates the individual sadness and suffering of when you lose someone, of when you feel out of place in society. It speaks of a suffering that everyone lives in solitude in the room of their own life without there being windows to lean out of to shout to the world what is felt. A condition that everyone often experiences but actually is often minimized and trivialized. "But I swear that I've always aimed for excellence, if I have to have little I choose to have nothing." This phrase encapsulates the strength of those who are suffering. They are the ones who are not content, the ones who fight and who suffer if what they achieve is not what they had aimed for. They are the ones who will be better, but still don't know it. The singer is the living proof of this.

Racconterò di te: it seems like a text of those you write at night, on a whim, before going to sleep. Anyway, you can't close your eyes. Anyway, in the end, life is so complicated that even if I try to rearrange it, I can't. So I write spontaneously, and what I write I sing. Yes, I sing because it's nice to shout to the world what I feel and what I think about life. Wouldn't that be nice for you? To take, write something that moves you and throw it in the face of the world. Without fear of showing a weakness. "I will tell my father that I couldn't sleep at night, I turned in bed and cried thinking about it." It seems to me that this is one of those thoughts, of those you write spontaneously at night, perhaps in front of a beer and with teary eyes. One of those that, when you write it, is so simple that it makes you cry.

Sogni appesi: a piano, a warm voice and here comes "Sogni appesi". But how fucking few singers do it like this today!?

It must be said that in the background of Ultimo's songs there is certainly love (for a person, for life, for a particular condition) and a globally pessimistic existential perception. This is the criticism that can be made. True. But I also believe this is what truly appeals to those who follow him: his sincerity and his desire to express thoughts with that pessimistic streak.

In the end we will be left with two things: the poetry about life and the notes of a song.