For the first time, the Grammy Award-winning and Brit Award-winning band releases a single featuring one of the most important and popular Italian artists. Built solely on the sound of the piano, the piece underscores the undisputed singing abilities of the two musicians, who share the same artistic vision and passion for music.
“I had the opportunity and luck to meet Muse in the early 2000s at an Italian festival that we both attended and it was amazing because I always listened to them,” Elisa wrote in her Instagram post: “Absolution , her favorite record, is an album that left a deep impression on me; I listened and listened to these songs until they became the soundtrack of an important time in my life. I find this collaboration all the more inspiring: for the beautiful interweaving of my personal story with them and the great artistic value of the band, consisting of extraordinary artists. Matt Bellamy has an extraordinary talent, he brought rock into the mainstream with a very original mix (present since the first records). , able to mix the classical music of the piano and the melodies of his voice with a super energetic rock that finds its maximum expression in live performances”.
Matt Bellamy stated: “We always thought this song would be perfect for a powerful female voice. We are thrilled that Elisa is the first in a series of future collaborations for our fans to hear.”
The song is about the loved ones that Covid has taken away and whose titles remain ‘ghosts’. “How I move on” is the painful question of how to leave it behind, to come back to life, to move forward. “How can I move on when everyone I meet tells me about you?” sings Bellamy. “How can I move on when the best things we’ve done together?”.
Elisa added a touching part in Italian to the English version: “And maybe I’m wrong when I look deep into someone else’s eyes for you and how much I’ll cry when I think about how big our dream was. And then I leave you, but my mind chases memories and ghosts, and you’re left me what isn’t there.”
After the success of the latest album by Muse “Will of the people‘, which went straight to number 1 on the GFK chart for best-selling albums in Italy, Muse bring their ‘Will of the People’ tour in Italy on July 18 in Rome at the Stadio Olimpico and in Milan on July 23 at the San Siro Stadium.
In the meantime, the last part of Elisa’s live trilogy “Back to the Future Part III” has also been released with an unpublished piece in Italian. In February, after finishing second in Sanremo, the singer-songwriter released the double album Ritorno al Futuro/Back to the Future, half in Italian and half in English. For her eleventh album, the singer-songwriter from Trieste conceived music radically differently than before, opens up for unexpected collaborations, writes on beats, creates songs together. A few weeks ago, the singer-songwriter pleasantly surprised everyone by dueting with Cesare Cremonini at her recent concert at the Assago Forum in Milan.