ARE YOU REAL?
alternative / indie pop
From the lo-fi songwriting of the beginnings to his recent electronic productions, Are You Real's music has always been the most authentic exploration of an inner world, magical and obscure. Behind the moniker is Andrea, singer-songwriter from Venice, Italy.
His debut album Songs Of Innocence was recorded with a band and supported by a small European tour. In the second album, Songs From My Imaginary Youth, Andrea got more personal, playing every instrument. In the recent songs, his music becomes electronic, both dark and dreamy.
I’ve always felt like I don’t belong in this reality. Like there was another world, somewhere. Music is my way to get there.
In 2018 Andrea founded the record label Beautiful Losers. Since then he has been working as a producer for other artists like An Early Bird, About Blank, Gintsugi, A Red Idea, Mått Mūn, Alice Di Lauro, RosGos. He’s actually recording his third album.
An elegant, limited-edition book, printed in only 100 numbered copies
This hardcover book includes 50 pages of high-quality paper and features the artworks from the animated video for Unicorn. “One night, I had a strange dream — a unicorn in the street” tells Andrea, the songwriter behind Are You Real?. “It was so vivid that I wrote a song about it. Then I asked the illustrator Riccardo Ambrosi to bring those images to life in an animated video. The result felt so complete we turned it into a silent book too. It’s an urban fairytale.”
This silent book immerse the readers in the visual journey of Unicorn. It also includes the lyrics of the song, adding a poetic touch to the visual storytelling.