Jovanotti’s new album, Niuiorcherubinicame like a creative bolt of lightning: unforeseen, unplanned, it just happened. The artist chose to immerse himself in real music, recording everything in just six days in New York, between Brooklyn and Astoria, with a band of musicians from different worlds. Each song was born from a live jam on analogue tape, without corrections or overdubs, to maintain the immediacy and that liberating imperfection that he himself defines as “wildLorenzo talks about it like this on social media:
I liked the idea of diving into music without expectations, playing in the middle of traffic with my ear to the sound and my eye to my notes of rhymes and words. It wasn’t planned no album happened and I’m happy it’s here. Something I often did in the 90s, from a jam in a rehearsal room in Milan I thought positive, the navel, give me space, I’m not bored, I’m not, ray of sunshine, who knows if you’re sleeping and other stuff that ended up in the albums.
This LP will not have singles in particular because it is really an album, with a homogeneous sound and one song that leads to another, without thinking too much about the “radio” format of the songs. they came out like this and I didn’t feel like changing them to obey the rules of the programmers’ and producers’ playlists. Those who have listened to him in recent weeks have told me that above all they feel the intact and wild joy, they sense something out of control, alive, again, a liberating imperfection. I’m happy if it comes like this, because that’s how it is.
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A record live with the sounds of the city
The album breathed the city like an additional character: the traffic, the sirens, the buzz of the neighborhoods, everything entered the tracks. Jovanotti played surrounded by vintage instruments, microphones full of history and a collection of sounds that smell of good dust. Thirteen songs took shape in the sessions, mixing salsa, soul, tropicalism, Afrobeat and funk, uniting musicians from the Spanish Harlem Orchestra, the Dap Kings and the Chicha Libre collective in one room.
The title Niuiorcherubini recalls the iconic Dallamericaruso: a tribute to the American imagination that has always fascinated Lorenzo. The album thus becomes the natural soundtrack of Loré’s Ark, the new artistic and live project that will travel through international festivals in 2026 and culminate in the great event Jova al Massimo at the Circus Maximus. The album follows a completely its own path, coming out first digitally and then in physical version, without a classic promotional strategy.
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An ancient method for a modern sound
The tracks were born from notes on the phone, phrases thrown out during a walk and musical ideas developed in two takes. Jovanotti chose to lead the sessions like a spontaneous orchestra conductor, keeping each take as it was, celebrating an instinctive musicality that today risks disappearing behind editing and algorithms. It is music that speaks to New York more than about New York, as Jovanotti says: a direct dialogue with a city that he considers his “sonic religion”.
The sound journey includes the Salsa Version of Without ifs and buts, funk songs like Pure Lifehomages to soul with JP Bimeni, psychedelic cumbies by Chicha Libre and a closing in Spanish with Much more than there are. A mosaic of sounds that conveys the profound meaning of the record: real life, rhythm, unpredictability. A free album that runs on its own, like New York itself.
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