Mortòri Released New Single “La Gata”

In advance of his debut EP A MORT L’ AMUR (“Death to Love” in English), which will be published via On the Camper Records on Valentine’s Day of 2025, producer and artist Aris Bassetti releases a new song named “La Gata” under the stage name Mortòri. In the EP, Bassetti sings in a dialect that is progressively vanishing.

“La Gata” is the second single of Mortòri: a twisted and tormented Swiss Italian crooner singing in a dialect that is slowly extinguishing. “La Gata” is not a love song. It is pure disillusionment. It is a raw reflection on the drama of feeling ugly. Too ugly.

The scene is painted with just a few vivid strokes: her arrival, the gaze that lands on his friend, the overwhelming sense of being out of place. Through a direct and regional language, Mortòri transforms a moment of personal rejection into a universal experience. “Tal disi mi, l’è propri inscì” (I’m telling you, it’s really like this) becomes the bitter mantra of someone who already knows how the story will end.

The contrast between the protagonist’s insecurity and the almost animalistic confidence of “La Gata” (the female cat) is mirrored in the rhythm of the lyrics: dry, almost fragmented, like a thought struggling to find peace. Beauty becomes an emotional distance from what we desire. The protagonist resigns himself with dignity to the role of a spectator.

A missed love song. An anthem to vulnerability. “La Gata” is sly, an open wound: it consumes us and invites us to look into the mirror of our insecurities. Not to confront them, but to remind us of their presence.

Mortòri is the moniker of the solo project of the artist and producer Aris Bassetti (Peter Kernel, Camilla Sparksss, Kety Fusco, Monte Mai, Julie Meletta and many others). It was born in 2023 out of an urgent need to explore and exorcise the less pleasant feelings associated with love. Aris decides to do it in his first language, the Ticino dialect; giving the project a particular connotation. Musically varied and avant-garde, Mortòri tries to break down and reassemble the relationship between the local and the global in different ways, giving a new face to a language that is increasingly at risk of extinction.

The song was written, performed and recorded by Aris Bassetti at La Tessinoise, Arbedo CH. It was mixed by Raffaele Stefani at Fonologie Monzesi, Monza IT and mastered by Andrea De Bernardi at Eleven Mastering, Varese IT.