Alvise Nodale
The Dreamer

Hello to all DeUsers of DeBaser. After several attempts, I finally managed to contact Alvise Nodale. Noble Friends, how time flies. It seems like just yesterday when the album Conte Flame, his debut, was released. And yet, since The Dreamer dated 2018, years have passed. In our present day, 2048, we can celebrate our favorite Alvise 30 years after the release of the album, reviewed on our site a lifetime ago.

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Are we realizing this? We are in the company of the most famous Italian singer-songwriter in Europe, and as you know, this year he will only perform 3 concerts. London awaits him, then Berlin and Rome. He has already sold 10 million tickets in presale and has received a billion and a half requests from cyber users. Today, precisely, it's a big party for the 30th anniversary of the album The Dreamer, which at the time did not gain media attention and is now being rediscovered and revalued. Unlike the old singer-songwriters like Ligabue and Vasco who began their careers with beautiful albums and then, despite making blunders, filled stadiums over time, your career has traveled in reverse. A logarithmic curve of success.

1) How do you remember your past when you performed in small venues?

I still remember it well, almost as if it were yesterday. I also remember participating in the Madama Guitar way back in 2016. I was quite young at that time, but I remember it was one of the concerts with the largest audiences I'd ever done. It was the period between Conte Flame and The Dreamer, and we had rearranged the songs with a trio formation, bass guitar, flutes, and voices with my two super companions Veronica Urban and Luca Boschetti.

2) It even seems that some people bought the obsolete CD, whose current value is around 1000 Galactic Lire. What message was enclosed in the lyrics of your album and how can it be proposed today?

I have always left the interpretation of the messages and the meaning of the songs to the listeners, and I still do, 30 years after I began composing songs on my own, because I firmly believe, now as then, that music is something very intimate and that not everyone feels the same emotions listening to the same song. That album, however, revolved around a story, a story in which everyone could (and I believe can still) recognize a part of themselves, even the smallest. The narrative unfolds through the 9 tracks that make up the album and tells a bit about the stages of human life as we understood it then, in 2018, but it can also be updated to now, "a man without dreams and without impetus, without passions and utopia would be an animal made of instinct and reason, a kind of wild boar with a degree in pure mathematics," said Fabrizio De André.

3) You have once again won the Interstellar Awards and an infinity of micro-tracks have been sent to Mars to alleviate the hard work that 50% of the population of Italian origin spends on the red planet. Do you think singing in Italian was the turning point of your success, or will you perhaps return to proposing in Friulian Carnico?

Great awards, certainly, but I have always written as a personal outlet, not for glory nor to be considered better or worse than others, however, it is gratifying when people outside notice that you are also there. Just because I have always done it as an outlet, I have never worried about the language, there are songs that come out in Italian, others in Friulian, some (very rare) even in English, but no one has ever heard these... I have never liked to place limits on myself in that sense, each song comes out with the language that seems most appropriate.

4) In this year's tour you have already sold millions of e-tickets and you are the most esteemed singer-songwriter in the world. How does it feel to be so famous, and what could be the difference with the sacred monsters of traditional old style music like Dylan and Neil Young?

It certainly feels good, and it is also a great responsibility. Dylan and Young have been my mentors in some way, I still listen to them and play their songs, despite the fact that many consider them "outdated." I believe the difference lies in the choice of sounds, at the time, I remember trying to bring a sense of modernity to something traditional like songwriting, trying to incorporate sounds from other genres, still giving a lot of space to the acoustic guitar, to singing, and to the images that can be created with imagination, unmatched images in my opinion, not even the most sophisticated holographic scanner of today can reach the levels of an image created by an emotion, a song, or a good book (for the nostalgic).

5) 30 years later, the micro-tracks of The Dreamer are infecting everyone. Listening to it again now, it seems like such a current work in both the musical aspect and the lyrics. Which piece from that old album reflects you the most?

I think I put a lot of myself into all the songs... So let's say the album as a whole reflects me quite well.

Ps: DeFriends that's how it is. I wanted to do a different interview than usual. Mick Jagger declined for age reasons. Alvise Nodale accepted, so, may there be the best for his future.

Contact of Alvise https://www.facebook.com/alvisenodalemusic/