"I’ve refined my need to get to the essence of things" Interview with Birthh

With Senza fiato, Birthh opens a new phase in her journey, delivering an album that keeps everything on a tightrope: desire and fear, light and collapse, the need for control and the impulse to let go. It’s a record that sounds intimate but not closed off, essential yet full of tension, born from a writing process that tries to stay inside things without softening them too much. In this interview, she told us where Senza fiato comes from, what has changed in her way of writing, and why, today, she feels an even stronger need to get to the heart of what she experiences.

Interview with Birthh

I’d start from the beginning of this record: what was the moment or thought from which Senza fiato really was born?

Instinctively, I would have said when I moved to New York, but thinking about it, I believe it started much earlier, maybe the first time I wrote a song as a child, around 8 years old, and realized that music could be a language through which to express myself.

It feels like this album marks a very precise shift in your path: what do you feel has changed, artistically and personally, compared to your previous work?

Maybe I’ve refined my need to get to the essence of things. In this record, as in my life, I’ve tried to be more minimalistic, to search for the core of what surrounds me and what I feel, and to represent it to the best of my abilities. And then, of course, the end of my twenties weighs heavily on me, I truly feel like an adult for the first time.

While writing these songs, was there a recurring theme or image that kept coming back and that you eventually understood as the heart of the album?

Not a specific image, but a constant clash between opposing forces. Even though I do have one scene in mind every time I sing the title track, Senza fiato: two people kissing in front of a burning building.

This record holds together very intimate moments and everything you’ve gone through externally: how did you find that balance point?

In reality, I still feel like I’m searching for balance. The thing is, these songs almost wrote themselves, following the urgency of a real need, and what came out of opening all the emotional taps is this constant swing between light and darkness. Maybe it has its own balance, but internally I don’t feel like I’ve found it yet.

Looking at the album as a whole today, what do you hope stays with those who listen to it all the way through?

I hope it leaves a bit of the desire to live, and not just to survive.