Dutch Nazari: “I denounce the extreme capitalism that is in music”

Dutch Nazari is on tour again to present his new album “Guarda le luci amore mio”which addresses the relationship between everyday life and great history, between mass distractions and global tragedies. We interviewed him during the Sanremo week: you can find the video at the bottom of the article. The Paduan artist confirms his recognizable stylistic signature: committed lyrics and evocative images, a language that starts from rap and reworks its stylistic featuresin the service of a narrative that constantly bounces between the political and the personal.

“I arrived at this title – says Dutch Nazari – through the bibliography of another very important book for my life. I discovered ‘Look at the lights my love’ like this: it is a little book in the form of a diary, in which the author Annie Ernaux, a great French writer who would later win prestigious prizes for her novels including the Nobel for Literature, writes down her thoughts and observations for consecutive weeks that come from going to the various French supermarkets”. And again: “It struck me – continues the artist – because if I describe a world in which everything is increasingly traded and commercializedand therefore inevitably also advertised, what is put on the market must be sold as extraordinary, beautiful, incredible: then I realized that, basically, I am doing the same too. I am ‘bookshelfing’ my observationsmy thoughts, as if I were inside that supermarket.”

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