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...and so nothing, I was incredibly busy as usual, banging my head for half an hour in front of Google trying to figure out, once and for all, if the Chupacabra really exists in parts of Mexico or not. Fascinating and nocturnal reality or more plainly a story put together by some funny little Latin guy with a mustache? Maybe one of those who doesn't have much to do and who wastes the time of someone as busy as me, as evidenced, on multiple fronts... Destroyed by the tremendous enigma my gaze sought comfort elsewhere when, suddenly, here was the interlude needed to divert my mind from the aforementioned gloomy matters: "Why not bother Zanardi"? Yes. Bothering Zanardi could indeed be a great distraction on that cold and dreary night.
...Hello Paolo, so here are my questions for DeBaser:
1. Currently, when you look in the mirror, what do you see (if you say "a sex symbol," damn, I swear the interview ends here!)?
I see my beautiful face which I spit at (forget the sex symbol...)
2. Your album "Portami a Fare Un Giro" is interesting: there are many sound atmospheres different from one another. In one track you relax as if lying under the sun by the sea, the next one seems like being in the midst of a bustling scene from Kusturica's Black Cat White Cat (the reference is obviously for the frequent "Balkan" sounds). What inspired the album? What were the "inputs" that made you say "Oh! Enough now! I'll sit here and write the songs for my album because I want to talk about..."? What did you do before becoming a musician?
The album was born out of the need to give shape to the many songs written for my old band, the "Borgo Pirano". I didn't want to talk about anything in particular, except what I see, inside and outside of me. Before becoming a musician I was: the overseer among my father's workers, the jack of all trades at a Rome venue and, last but not least, a full-time junkie...
3. Tell us about the artists who have most influenced your way of writing and reveal which are currently your favorite bands, Italian and foreign.
The artists who have influenced me are too many and never fundamental. My favorite album at the moment is "Gran calavera elettrica" by Cesare Basile. A great artist to whom I feel somewhat close.
4. Are you someone who reads a lot? From your lyrics, it seems that you spend a lot of time caring for writing. What's the last book you read? What is it about?
I read a lot, although less than in the past. My current readings (always intersected) are: "The Tao of Physics" by Capra, "The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony" by Calasso, and "Philosophy in the Boudoir" by the great Marquis De Sade...
5. Finally, a curiosity of mine as a scatterbrain: If you had the opportunity to be reborn as a musical instrument, what would you choose to be, in what era would you like to be played, and above all, by whom?
I would like to be the splendid lips of Billie Holiday singing "Violet for Your Furs"!!!
"Thanks so much for your availability" I wrote, but immediately the air became heavy and dark again. I had far more important and sinister things to deal with. I returned to Google. "And now for the two of us..." I said bitterly sneering "demonic beast..."
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