Every once in a while, an artist returns with a song that is more like a confession than a brand new release.

Daniele Odasso’s “Living In Between” lands exactly at this spot, in that vulnerable space where music is not just music but a whole creation. It’s very much the sound of someone coming back to their own voice after life has rearranged the pieces a bit.

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The first moments of the song is like a held breath. Producer @amira builds a soft but steady pulse beneath everything with warm, gliding synths, a low throb, textures that seem to hover at the edges before they fully blossom. Then as Daniele’s voice enters, there is a subtle rasp in his lower range, the kind that comes from life experience. It grounds the track almost immediately.

As the musical arrangement unfolds, you start to notice the emotional architecture underneath. Nothing is rushed. The harmonies slide in like passing thoughts. Stefano Di Blasio’s electric guitar is especially striking.

But it’s not just the sonics that make “Living in Between” a unique song, it is also the emotional honesty that shapes it. The song leans into its title. It really does live in between things – between the clarity of adulthood and the shadows of old fears, between the places Daniele has called home, between the dreams he once chased and the ones he’s reclaiming now. In his voice you can hear that he has been wrestling with the past, but also finally making peace with it.

The music video to accompany the song, which was filmed in Tuscany, deepens all of this. The water, the horizon line, the way that dusk light softens the landscape, is not just all pretty imagery. It is memory, longing, and renewal all swirling together. Knowing Daniele’s history with that region of Italy makes it so much more personal. You can feel the emotions of returning to a place that has shaped him long before he ever stepped into a recording studio.

As the first glimpse of his upcoming project In a Dream, “Living In Between” doesn’t try to be a big, declarative anthem.

Instead it invited you to a reflective, hopeful but also uncertain space and let’s you linger there. There is a tenderness in this process, and Daniele captures it beautifully.

Find out more about Daniele Odasso on his Website

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