1. Canarie, where did this name come from?

Canarie is an ideal habitat for our music. We like to imagine the name as an archipelago of relationships that continually get close and go away depending on winds or tides. From the climatic point of view, thanks to mild temperatures during all the year, it allows you to dress with few garments, so that you are always ready to unbutton the shirt and confess your fears to the sea.

2. Does your project represent something?

Rather than represent something, Canarie houses and continue to host our will to compose in Italian, to tell, in a more immediate way, sensations and emotions that we gathered for a long time.

3. What would you categorize your music as for genres?

We like to include different musical styles, from Brazilian music to contemporary folk, from African rhythmics to the 60’s soundtracks. Maybe the only macro-genre that can enclose everything, is simply… Pop.

4. How do you get inspired?

We answer your question with a Caetano Veloso’s sentence that we think is perfect to describe our creative process: “singing goes beyond the memory of having lived something one day, it is to own something’s hearth”.

5. What projects inspired your musical career?

To write Tristi Tropici we’ve done a deep immersion in the big see of Italian songwriting leaded by Dalla, Battisti,Battiato, Tenco, Conte e Carella. Regarding sonority, we’ve gleaned especially from contemporary, cross and world artists, from Andy Shauf to Caetano Veloso to mention a couple of them. Certainly also our previous projects (honeybird & the birdies for Paola and Persian Pelican for Andrea) contributed to identify our style.

6. What motivates you to do this?

The passion and happiness of sharing what we’ve created with out listeners. Seeing people under stage dancing and singing your songs it’s an indescribable emotion.

7. How do you write lyrics? And what topic do you seem to be writing the most about?

Andrea deals with writing lyrics and to write Tristi Tropici he took the cue form Ennio Flaiano, Gesualdo Bufalino and Dino Buzzati’s books, together with many 60’s movies characterised by cynical-existentialist veining, such as La Voglia Matta. In our first record we mainly talk about cracking sentimental relationships.

On one side there are desires that never get old and would lead you to search alternatives to couple life, on the other one the anguish that everything is ending makes you please an everyday life that, after all, is not unbearable.

8. What instruments have you used in your project?

For this first record we entrusted with the classic formation, drums, bass, guitar and synth. At the Jedy Sound Studio in Rome, where we recorded the disk, we had the opportunity to use mellotron and a frugal vintage synth, which was much more wider.

9. Where are you gonna play your next gig?

In March we should had had to know the final dates of the tour, which have been canceled because of the Covid-19 pandemic. We really hope that the situation will get better. In the meantime we’re jotting down new ideas for the second disk.

10. We saw you opening to Mac DeMarco’s concert last summer. It was amazing. Tell us about that evening and the sensations you felt sharing the stage with such an important, international artist.

If we had to draw-up a classification of the best 2019 live concerts, at the first place we certainly would place the opening for Mac DeMarco. In the air there was a particular energy that had literally overwhelmed us and transformed emotion in a unique experience. Seeing the audience (really numerous) that slowly started being fully in harmony with us, made us forget all other thing to enjoy the moment.

Mac and his band were wonderful, pleasant, kind and willing. We talked and had dinner as old friends. Their live concert was amazing.

11. Which is best concert you've ever been to?

Paolo Conte in Paris.

12. Got any names for other fresh new artists that would be up for an interview?

We could name some Italian artists that we know and we musically esteem: Alessandro Fiori, Giovanni Truppi, Giorgio Poi, Dimartino, Iosonouncane, Colapesce…

13. If you were to choose only three types of food to eat on tour, what would you pick?

We are big eaters and we discreetly manage to cook. On tour, as in everyday life, it’s important to eat well, in fact we have literally banished motorway restaurants for lunch. We have our list with authentic restaurants scattered throughout Italy, which bit by bit enrich itself with suggestion of who host our live concerts.

Regarding the type of food, a good first course with a glass of red wine and a dessert to conclude, makes you face the rest of the day with an other perspective.

14.You can give a shoutout to whoever you want.

Considering the moment we’re getting through, we’d like to greet all that people who’s working hard on the front line in the fought against the virus and another one to our musicians colleagues, who have had to cancel or postpone all the things that were planned in this period