Berkeley Cat Records is very proud to share a brand new single from Piero Amadeo Infante, called Safe To Cry Now. This link will give you shortcuts to hear it on our beloved Bandcamp, and some of the popular streaming services:
https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/pieroamadeoinfante/safe-to-cry-now
It’s been an honor and a joy to have a role in bringing this song forward, as you may read about in Piero’s notes below.
From Piero:
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
We invite you to listen and share the song on your socials or blogs or whatnots, using the aforementioned link or any of the links therein. This song means a hell of a lot to me personally, and maybe sometime I’ll write more about it myself, but for now, let it speak for itself and I thank you, Piero, for creating this profound and unique work. We got you too, man.
-Eric Dinwiddie