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Scottish singer Mr. Paolo Nutini is coming to Brazil for the first time ever and I got a chance to talk to him about it in a quick, pretty low-quality, phone call for a music website (thank you Nação da Música!) I found a guy that might love music just as much as I do (maybe even a bit more, but I’d never admit that).

“I guess music is one of the things that always absorbs the most in my life. It’s always been one of the things that I’ve been able to communicate through. It’s like there’s a sponge in my body that soaks music more than anything else, you know?”

Here’s is a transcript of our chat!

We’re very excited about this show, we’ve been waiting for 10 years! Paolo Nutini: Me too, me too! I’ve been working so much on it…  I have a new concert that I’m working on and I’m only going to have over there, you know, so I’m curious to see that, but I’m excited nonetheless. I’ve never been to Brazil on other tours, or even been to South America, even other cities there in my life. I hope it’s only the beginning, not the end.

It’s too bad it’s only São Paulo… I hope that you get to come back to visit different cities and all of South America! PN.: We actually end in Brazil. We got a little short run. We actually begin in Mexico and we go to Chile then… Then Argentina and then we land Brazil. And the way that I hope to work things out is that can I continue from Brazil and that I can stay maybe one month in South America and do some exploring…

That’s nice… PN.: That’s my plan, that’s my plan but you know… That’s what I hope to do. Because it’s something that, you know, even before we had confirmation that we could do shows (there) I knew that I wanted to make sure that I came over and and least got a piece of the culture, you know? This is my idea on how to experience it. I can’t wait. I’m very excited!

(In your music) You have different influences from different cultures but also different kinds of music in all of your albums… PN.: Yeah…

How did that come about…How do you feel that your music has changed throughout the years? PN.: Hum… You know, I don’t know… I get asked that question quite a lot over course of time. By the last end of the tour people would ask me “why those songs changed so much”, you know?! I don’t think they changed so much… I think… When we come over to do the show… And I’m not sure whether or not you’ll be able to come and watch the show, but I hope you can…

Even the old songs change sometimes… PN.: A lot of the songs that we do from the Caustic Love - we’ve playing lot… Some of the songs we just learned and the songs we do from the second one (Sunny Side Up), they are quite different to how they appear on the record… I don’t know, I think a song is a song and I think that when other people perform your song or when I perform somebody else’s song you tend to do it in a different way. And I think that’s the main thing…You get 8 years, you know? In 8 years the ideas change… Of course everything, you know, you can hear something and something influence it, that’s, I think that’s the main thing with music… I have conversations with people and it changes how I perform. On anything from, you know, all my relationships and on my approach to different things. So, music, definitely impacts me. I guess music is one of the things that always absorbs the most in my life. It’s always been one of the things that I’ve been able to communicate through. It’s like there’s a sponge in my body that soaks music more than anything else, you know?

Do you feel like places you’ve been and people you’ve met have had any influence on your music? PN.: I definitely see that the people I’ve met influenced me a lot more than the places themselves. But you know, I mean, that can be… Some places, I think, some places can have typical approaches, typical traditions. You can’t generalize anybody, but you can associate certain attitudes to some places and that could be because the weather is very cold or because the weather is very hot, you know? And I think… Obviously, when I say that about the people, maybe that is a reflection of the country and the setting, but, you know, that’s why it’s important getting over there, going over in the country because, you know, from what I know, it’s a place, I’m from Scotland, you know? And being in Brazil is very diverse and very exotic, you know, then again I also feel like you get a lot of grit. You get a lot of passion and grit and it’s very real. It’s not all ahm… I think that that’s the thing, you know, I feel like with a lot of places, I remember the first time I went to a very different place, I went to Jamaica for instance, maybe I didn’t know enough and thought everything would go like bad joints and Pirate Bays and coconuts, you know, whatever, so, and if you go to Jamaica, you have a beautiful Jamaica but that’s certainly no vacation. It’s fucking real, man… And I think that’s what I like, what turns me on about Brazil… What turns me on about Brazil is the fact that it’s got so many angles, so many shapes, so much depth.

Oh yeah! It’s a big country… PN.:And the music is obviously so intense. Weirdly when I was in high school I remember that I used to go into the library and you know, for no real reason I used to pick up some records you know, vinyl records, I didn’t know who they were and one of them was Gilberto Gil and I think it was maybe music made in the 70’s, one of the albums was called Refazenda another one Expresso or something like that? 2222? PN.: Expresso 2222! And I used check them I think, that was one of the 70’s I think when I first started having a smoke, you know… That was the same moment that I would pick up some, like, Sergio Mendes… Started with that.

That’s so cool! I hope you have time to explore a bit when you’re here, there’s so much to see and listen to! PN.: Well, you know, hopefully I can find (time) when I’m there, hopefully we can find someone who can get me around. When I go to places, when I’m out, one of the biggest luxuries i’ve been able to do is to wonder, you know. I think I’ll leave it out in the open, it will be nice if someone can give me a hand. Amy Winehouse was a friend of yours*… Did she leave any influence or mark on you? PN: Amy, well, yeah… We sang on the same shows, festivals, things like that, we had a few conversations, I was 16 years old and I was a support act for her way before my first album. But she left a left a mark I think on a lot of people, I think everybody, songs like ’Back to Black’ and ’Love is a Losing Game’ are not gonna be expendable. I think she was very important, but people are people for good and bad and that’s just who she was.

(*Paolo opened for Amy in the beginning of his career and she was crazy about Brazilian and latin music in general)

(Our 10 minutes were up and his manager got on the phone to let me know I only had one question left…)

PN: I need to give a shout out to two of my favorite Brazilian people, Moon and Bá, Fábio Moon and Gabriel Bá, the animators, the artists, you know? I’m a big fan of graphic novels and they are two of my favorites, I know them, I’m mad about their stuff. There was a real kind of influence, a kind of stain on the last album, just in a sense, I was reading it at the time and I don’t know how everything speeds in the end and in a weird way it took away some of the anxiety of the reality of what I was doing you know, and like, ended up calming me and giving me some space in my head. They can push all kinds of buttons, man. You know know… Much love to them.

This is my last one, so I’m gonna throw you a challenge! It’s so cool that you know so much about our culture… Did you ever think about putting some Brazilian spin on your setlist for the show here? Maybe a song or a sound? PN: Wow, I mean, I don’t know…What do people want to see? Do they want to see me trying something new or me doing what usually I do? I don’t know, that’s a hard one to decide, but yeah, maybe. I think I might have to now! (laughing)

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