Does your conscience feel a pang when you feel as if you’re about to cross a moral boundary?

As an observer of people, I sometimes question how self-aware people are. It’s very hard for me to tell what passersby are experiencing when their gaze is lowered to their phones.

Maybe someday I will muster the courage to shake people I see lost in a screen. I would love to scream “Hey! Are you in there?” Hopefully that would end in more positive than negative outcomes. Who can tell these days?

About five minutes ago I released a new album entitled “Una linea tra il bene e il male”. Now, for anyone that possesses any interest in my creative explorations I have to say I’ve presented myself and anyone who decides to purchase this album with a linguistic challenge. That challenge being this - ninety-nine percent of the text is delivered in Italian. To me this was a daunting task as I haven’t understood much Italian or have been able to speak much of the language since I was a very young child.

I have been going about relearning the language in a scant fashion for the past couple of years but have some many other interests that language learning (for better or worse) gets placed on the back burner. Shucks, English is hard enough after all. However, for some reason whatever name you want to give what we call inspiration suggested I do an album in Italian. I have done so.

Now, don’t be discouraged English speaker. It turns out about twenty-eight to sixty percent of your language is rooted in Latin. While I’ve opted to not offer an English translation for the text, I am optimistic that you will be able to glean the meat of the story.

Are you ready to jump on your imaginary moped, put on some cool sunglasses and say “Piacere Italiano”!? Well let’s go.

Follow the road to Italia and pick up the digital album here.

Ciao bello!

-Joe DeVita