La vita è bella così com’è - Das Leben ist schön so wie es ist
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“You will be like back then when they burned your beauty to ashes and told us it was freedom.” - La notte dei cristalli
Pippo Pollina, the Sicilian singer-songwriter living in Switzerland, is a declared pacifist. The former conscientious objector has already condemned abuse of power with his music in the past and advocated for humanity and peace. Now, in a time when war has re-entered our daily lives through media coverage, the successful songwriter dedicates a whole album to the theme with Fra guerra e pace (Between War and Peace). “War is a dimension from which humanity has never truly been freed. This place where destruction and annihilation connect with other events of life. With love, births, hunger, or thirst,” the artist writes in the foreword of the booklet. Thus, Pippo Pollina takes us with this sonically and thematically diverse album to the people and fills what we hear daily in the news with life. We encounter fears, pain, and sorrow, while simultaneously experiencing hope, love, and poetry.
Fra guerra e pace is in many ways a special album. With its richly detailed, multifaceted music, sometimes hymn-like, sometimes seeming archaic, it immediately captivates us. The song titles and lyrics confront us with cruel history and present. La notte dei cristalli (The Night of the Crystals) is a song he recorded for this album together with his two children, singer-songwriter FABER and Madlaina Pollina. It is the first time the three can be heard together. Free Palestina sings of a place where there are no memories, no bread, no dignity, but many forces shouting ‘Free Palestine’. Hope always resonates, glowing love and humanity like an antidote shimmering through suffering. Thus, the song Fra i petali del girasole (In the Petals of the Sunflower) tells of a Ukrainian soldier on leave who dreams of a good life after the war far from Donbass. For life actually has so much beauty to offer - La vita è bella così com’è (Life is beautiful just as it is) is the title of Pippo Pollina’s tour next year.
Acoustically, the diversity of this album stands out. The pieces impress with an instrumental richness that creates a powerful, harmonious whole while occasionally presenting solos that are prominent, concise, almost proudly highlighted. Much of this is not chosen at random but also thematically fits – like the oud, the Arabic lute, in Free Palestina. One might think that this diversity is an involuntary appeal for peace.
Fra guerra e pace is a political statement, a poetic admonition, and also a glimmer of hope in tumultuous times. It tells of historical and contemporary war events and what they do to people. Pippo Pollina dedicates it “to the innocents who die under the bombs that fall from the heavens of this world.”
The album was released on December 5, 2025.
From January 2026, Pippo Pollina will be touring in Switzerland, Germany, and Austria.
All compositions and lyrics are by Pippo Pollina – with the exception of the lyrics to Fra i petali del girasole, which were created together with Luigi Mariano.
The album was produced with the participation of:
Vocals:
Julian Pollina “FABER” & Madlaina Pollina – La notte dei cristalli
Marcello Mandreucci, Alfonso Moscato, and Raquel Romeo – Questo tempo insieme
Strings:
Lenka Bonaventurova (Viola)
Daniel Frankenberg (Violin)
Jonas Moosmann (Violin)
Stefania Verità (Cello)
Keyboard instruments:
Martin Kälberer (Piano, Keyboards, Accordion, Harmonium)
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