ASIA ARGENTO TALKS WITH ALL ANDORRA ABOUT HER LATEST MUSICAL PROJECTS
Asia Argento is mostly known to the mass audience like an actress and a film director. Having artistic roots from her great-grandfather- the well-known futuristic composer Alfredo Casella, father – famous horror movies creator Dario Argento, and mother – actress Daria Nicolodi; had a huge impact on Asia’s development. She started appearing in movie’s since she was 9 years old and played in a few during her teenage years as well. At the end of the 90’s, Asia started as a multi-language actress with roles in American movies like Michael Redford’s “B. Monkey” and Abel Ferrara’s “New Rose Hotel”. In 2000 she made her debut as a film director with a very sincere movie using autobiographical tunes named “Scarlet Diva”, in which Asia also played the main role. In 2004 she directed her next film “The Heart is Deceitful Above All things” where she also played a role. The last film directed by Asia “Incompresa” starring Charlotte Gainsbourg , was released in 2014 and happened to be the critics favorite and one of the most noticeable premiers during the Cannes Festival.
During her many years spent in the movie industry, Asia showed her ability to be organic in different genres, starting from roles in big action or historical block busters like “XXX” or “Marie Antoinette” to more art-house oriented, European movies like “Go Go Tales”, “The Last Mistress” and “Obsessive Rhythms”.
Besides acting and directing, one of the Asia´s main passions in life is music. Being a serious record collector and a music lover since her childhood years, Asia has taken part in collaborations with many musicians. She recorded tracks with various big artists such as Tricky and Placebo, and collaborated a lot with less famous but not any less interesting people from experimental and underground circles. In 2014, Asia Argento released the album “Total Entropy” which summed up her best musical works to that point. Asia also occasionally plays DJ sets at different kinds of events in which she shows her unusual musical taste to the public.
All Andorra was lucky to arrange an interview with Asia Argento. Asia told us about her new exciting project “Rock-n-Roll Suicide”, DJing, her favourite collaborations, directing musical videos, as well as what she is focusing on in her career at the moment and her views on performing in Andorra.
Interview: Dmitry Tolkunov
Hi Asia! Thank you for finding time to talk with us. We have noticed (while checking your social media before the interview) that you are having a lot of DJ sets in Italy now. Anything else interesting happening in your musical world?
Yes, I can say that at the moment I’m very into different musical projects and enjoying them much more than movie jobs. I play a lot of DJ sets, do different types of gigs, more electronic ones for dance night clubs, and more mish mash for venues with eclectic musical policies which I enjoy most of all. Besides my DJing, I started a project called “Rock-n-Roll Suicide”. Basically it is focused on finding promising new rock-bands and giving them a possibility to play and to get more attention and publicity in order to help them start their careers. I want to bring good rock music to dance clubs.
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