Singer Nando Reis said on Tuesday (23) that he has not lost his creativity in composing after stopping using alcohol and other drugs. The São Paulo native declared that he has been sober for almost seven years.
The artist’s speech was made during the press conference that marked the release of “Uma Estrela Misteriosa”, a triple album accompanied by a bonus disc composed only of unreleased songs. In the interview, Nando explained that the drugs had the function of acting to reduce his self-criticism, which, according to him, is great enough to hinder the creative process of composition.
“Alcohol, drugs, they have nothing to do with creativity. I used them to loosen my inhibitions, because my self-criticism is very severe, and often paralyzing,” confessed the former Titans member. “I never published anything that I hadn’t checked 2, 3, 4, 5 times sober because it’s easy to fool yourself.”
He celebrated seven years of sobriety, which he considered an achievement, and the consequent gain in vitality.
“I have much greater vitality and, evidently, a brain preserved through luck,” he joked. “I lived with this very intensely, for many years, almost 40 years. It is an achievement.”
Swimming against the tide
The former Titans’ move is, as he himself said in a press conference this Tuesday, swim against the tide and music consumption trends that used radio as a laboratory and were later consolidated by social networks and streaming services. In the album launch video, Nando Reis defines himself as an artist from another time.
“I have a certain reluctance, a certain discomfort with this super fragmentation, this super pulverization, the pills, the skip [termo derivado do inglês usado para definir o ato de pular faixa]of the digital age. I’m not like that and I have this ambition to put a tome on the table and go against the tide”, explains the artist.
The project is in line with two of the biggest releases in global pop culture: Taylor Swift’s “The Tortured Poets Department” and Beyoncé’s “Cowboy Carter.” The first was released as a double album with 31 songs, while the second features 27 songs on a single disc.
“Uma Estrela Misteriosa” will also have a different release strategy than usual. Initially, only the physical box set with all the albums will be released physically. The individual CDs will hit stores separately, one per week. In the digital version, the release will also be phased: the albums will be made available weekly, one at a time, with tracks that will only be blocked the following week, when the next album is released.
Listen to the album “Uma” below
Source: CNN Brasil
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