On June 12, Nahuel Pennisi presented “Back”, an advance of his third album, which will be released in the second half of this year. The song, produced by Julio Reyes Copello, who also performed works with Marc Anthony, Ricky Martin, Alejandro Sanz and Jennifer Lopez, among others, was to go out for an album that Reyes Copello was preparing. In addition, on July 10, Pennisi will hold an online show in tribute to Silvio Rodríguez, a Cuban singer-songwriter, guitarist and poet. From Filo.news, we talked to him, so that the artist discusses his quarantined situation and his expectations about this show.
Tucked into a pandemic, as stated above, “Come Back” premiered, a theme that his video clip was recorded with cell phones and from home.” There are a lot of people who need a positive, optimistic message, and I think music has this chance of making people happy, of getting them excited, of identifying them through a song,” Pennisi says, about the role of quarantined artists. “Artists don’t have to sit still.” In addition to Julio Reyes Copello, “Vuelve” had the collaboration of Mariana Vega, a Venezuelan singer-songwriter who, in 2014, won a Latin Grammy for “Best New Artist”.Why did she bring this song, specifically, as a preview of her new album? Simple: “I thought it was a subject I was giving for this moment,” he confirms.
At first, “Back” was going to come out for a record that Reyes Copello was putting together for his record label, but because “the thing was put off”, the song was taken over by Pennisi for his. About this, the singer states that he will have the level of the songs that make up him. “The songs are very good and there are very nice versions of some covers that I like very much,” he says. In addition, the album will, as always, feature sounds of popular music, which characterizes Pennisi, but on the other hand, it will bet on “more modern, more Latin American” sounds. While the record will have nothing related to the pandemic, having previously been recorded, Pennisi jokes, with a laugh: “We can put a beard on the lid or a gel alcohol.”
“That’s going to be spectacular,” Nahuel looms, about the recital that will be streaming on the 10th of next month. While the show will be online, Pennisi is going to make sure you know how people who see it are happening. “Let’s try to make it as real as possible so it doesn’t feel so weird.” It will be in homage to Silvio Rodríguez, who for Pennisi is a master of Latin American music. “I am very excited about your honesty, your transparency… has a very genuine thing that conveys it with the guitar.” Just as he was caught by that cassette his father gave him, Pennisi wants to become a channel and deliver Rodriguez’s work to his listeners.
Now, Pennisi is against the strings: he has to describe his album in one word. “Uhhhh, ” he gets to say, before answering the question. “A single word costs me a lot, but I could tell you it’s like Lerner’s song ‘Start over’.” However, his response is redeemed and rephrased, laughing, following the main slogan: “There he is! Put the word ‘spectacular’ on it, what’s coming is something spectacular!”
