“Boomers” is the collective name for the oldest current generation, and it is also a generally recognised cliché. Is it right to project across generations the conflict between those who want the world as it is and those who imagine an alternative? What are the things that have left a mark, or not?
Boomers is both memory and play, a blend of the virtual and the real, a rebel ballad dedicated to destiny and “this is how the world is”, narrated and sung by two voices. Patrizia Laquidara, singer and songwriter, lends her body and voice to Jole. The Jole bar is an outlying planet orbiting an outlying star in a galaxy that passes over the bar, the bar is under the pillar of a motorway bridge that unites Italy, but that trembles, vibrates and shakes. Things race back and forth up there, but down below everything seems still. The bar is a place for games, for learning about the world, for shooting and for song.
Ballads and songs are like a coat of rustproofing, an attempt at maintenance on the drive belt of experience, on that touch of good that exists, and that is to be held on to in the midst of accelerating change; everything else is already in the past.