Rapper ‘Capicua »launches remixes album – TVI24

The Capicua Portuguese rapper edit this Tuesday ‘Medusa’ means a remix album of songs from the previous album, “Crazy Mermaid ‘, and that includes two new songs, one on violence against women.

“It is a collective drive, remixes made by various tribes, and is to celebrate a year of life” Mad Mermaid “».

“The disc has 14 remixes and two originals,” Medusa “with Jack, and” Egotríptico “with M7 and DJ Ride,” explained the artist Lusa.

The album opens with precisely ‘Medusa’, a theme which includes excerpts from poems told by Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen: “It has long wanted to write about violence against women, not only domestic violence, but on “cyberbullying” ‘on sexual abuse on sexual freedom and to repress and collectively, on the victim-blaming’.

For the theme, Capicua resorted to the figure of Medusa, the Greek mythology, “a powerful story about blaming the victim, a woman who was punished and turned into a monster [whose hair was transformed into snakes and whose look petrifies]. And the jellyfish also refers to the aquatic world of “Mad Mermaid” ».

According to the artist, the theme ‘Medusa’ is also what you want aesthetically do in the future: “A written more silences between a rap and the” spoken word “.”

The remix album now edited with the participation of various DJ and producer, who reinvented some of the themes of ‘Mad Mermaid “(and also the previous album), and based solely on the voice Capicua.

Among the guests are the Octa Push, White Haus (João Vieira), Sam The Kid, DJ Ride, Expeão and DJ Marfox, in the reinvention of subjects as “Vayorken ‘,’ Heavy Hand ‘,’ Magnifier ‘and’ Soldier ‘, this with the participation of Tamin, lead singer of Cais Sodré Funk Connection.

“Medusa”, “a more electric drive, the more danceable ‘comes out a year after’ crazy Mermaid” album that brought the rap to “very different audiences, many urban tribes and had . greater geographic expansion, “recalls the artist

The remix disc also serves to Capicua – stage name Ana Matos Fernandes – back on the road, with the start of a new tour of the country scheduled for 11 April in the Casa da Musica in Porto, and, on the 16th of that month, the Lux nightclub in Lisbon.