Interval_o

To spend time with Nico Paulo, who never seems to stop singing, humming, and seeking melody is to find grounding beauty and sustainability in the becoming. It’s a special thing, to cultivate these intervals: they’re often the places where we’re finally able to find the present. On her latest EP aptly titled Interval_o — the ‘o’ nods to Paulo’s Portuguese heritage—the Newfoundland-based songwriter’s brief collection of ambient meditations and stream-of-life fragments celebrates a transformational period. “The purpose of it was to represent what I was experiencing, too,” Paulo says. “I was feeling like I had run out of things to say, but I still want to sing to people. I was wondering, ‘Is there a way of doing that? Can I still keep people company with words and sound and not have to tell a full story?’” Interval_o builds a sonic space for listeners to embrace their own metamorphoses, and to sing and dance all the way through them."