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Die with Me

by Paolo Cognetti

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Cover of the song of the same name by the New York gothic metal band Type O Negative from their 1996 album October Rust, “Die With Me”, the new single by composer and pianist Paolo Cognetti, available in all digital stores from 26th February 2021, is a tribute to their frontman (lead vocalist, bassist and composer) Peter Steele, who died before his time in 2010.

Type O Negative had a great influence on Paolo’s music: their theatricality, their love for sudden conclusions or changes or even their "musical jokes", some chord progressions and melodic contours, became part of who he is today. In the score of the piece Paolo plays with October Rust’s credits, when he writes «de-composed and re-composed», suggesting that it’s not a cover in a traditional way but a true reworking of the original song. The Florentine composer and pianist makes the piece his own, modifying the structure, changing the sections’ functions, reinterpreting the themes, deleting and adding musical elements, but in doing so, he reveals how much he absorbed some characteristics of Type O Negative’s language and shows, in this tribute to Peter Steele’s memory, his deepest gratitude to the band.

« I remember as if it were yesterday when, during a school trip in the mid-90s, I listened to a friend's mixtape and how I was dazzled by especially one of the songs. After a few days I asked him what it was, but he had already erased the tape cassette and he couldn't recall the selection he had made! It took me almost a year to find out I had listened to Black No. 1, the best-selling single by Type O Negative from their 1993 album Bloody Kisses. Since then, my passion for the band, with its melancholy, its humor that sometimes develops into self-devaluation, its extreme and hopeless romanticism, and above all with Peter's magnificent voice, has stayed with me. »⁠ (Paolo Cognetti)

This important and meaningful presence is effectively represented by the drawing done for the single by the illustrator Rosaria Mottola, who, with an inspired guess, turned the prickled stems of October Rust's artwork into a staff on whose notes Paolo Cognetti’s path unfolds. The name and title placement, imitating that of most Type O Negative's albums, and the use of the green, so dear to the band, as the only color other than black and white, complete the game of cross-references.

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released February 26, 2021
Music composed and performed by Paolo Cognetti

Recording and Mix: Filippo Rossi and Lawrence Fancelli

Master: Niccolò Caldini

Digital distribution: Songtradr and Kanjian Music

Artwork: Rosaria Mottola

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