A surprise new single - from Piero Amadeo Infante!
"Safe To Cry Now" goes live in the streaming services, this Caturday
Berkeley Cat Records is proud to announce a new single from the one and only Piero Amadeo Infante. The song is an original called Safe To Cry Now, penned and produced by the artist, and backed by Berkeley cats Tom Pope, Amir Zitro, and yours truly. Many of you already know and love Piero, and I hope this release will introduce the man to a lot of new fans around the world. In Berkeley and the Bay Area music scene, you only need to use his first name - just say “Piero” and everyone knows immediately whom you’re talking about. Founder of the Freaky Executives and Los Angelitos and more, a unique and powerful voice in every regard, I am glad that rumours of his retirement from music turned out to be premature! Look for the song on Spotify, Pandora, Apple Music and other platforms starting this Caturday, November 11.
Here’s Piero’s own notes about the song and its creation:
“It’s as simple as this:
In the mid-late 1990’s during a really dark phase in my life, I made friends with a lady in San Francisco, and we were both staying at an infamous hotel in the Tenderloin, and one night, getting high, we compared our lives and found them to be remarkably similar, despite our cultural and geographic differences. That night we started crying a lot and she said “I guess it’s safe to cry now” and it always stuck with me. She OD’d in that same hotel around three weeks later, and the song idea stayed with me for decades as a memory of her.
I sang it for Eric Din, around 1999-2000 and he never forgot it and over the years, asked about it a lot.
I ran into him and Tom Pope (the Drummer on the track), at a local bar, and Tom, a normally soft-spoken guy, was a little tight that night, (The Hotsy Totsy makes excellent drinks) and went a little “gunny sergeant” (Full Metal Jacket) on me “You need to be singing and playing!”
So I was like “Yes sir! Help me record it then!”
Eric simply booked the session with Michael Rosen at East Bay Recorders, and Tom came out from NYC to do the ethereal drum track, My friend Amir Zitro laid a perfectly placed bass, and in the end, Grammy award winning producer and mixer Reto Peter from Small Tone Music, mixed and mastered it.
The song is the memory of my life as a child on the run, my feelings for the beauty and sadness of the lady who I’ll call “Natalia” and of all the lost kids I know who had to find their own way home.
I hope the people who understand, get something from it.
It’s safe to cry now. I got you.
Love,
Piero Infante
November 8th, 2023”
I’ll send y’all some streaming links on - you guessed it - Caturday.
All best and love and light,
Eric Roy Dinwiddie