I have never seen anything like it. Admittedly Zambujo Antonio and Miguel Araujo are now two of the musicians and composers more ears of the country. Given the way in common that have been building since, in 2000, they met in Berimbar in Lisbon and which now includes exchange of songs and sharing the stage with the band The City, it was not surprising to see them announce a joint concert at the Lisbon Coliseum and Porto. What no one expected is that this Wednesday, when take the stage the Opera House, get ready to start a real marathon. Until March 28, will give a never seen seventeen concerts in two historic Portuguese rooms.
We had lunch in the Bairro Alto with Maiato Miguel Araújo, we know that ultra-pop adventure called The Olives before Husbands of the Other the phenomenon turn into soil, and the Bejense Antonio Zambujo man who was born in fate before opening wings to encompass Brazil and the song only song without defined gender. We found two serene musicians. They are only seventeen concerts. After them Zambujo end the album versions of Chico Buarque, with the participation of himself, who writes this time in Brazil. Araújo finalize the next single The d’Olives and will continue to write songs. However, together, end Daisy , song included in the new album friend Marante. After the Coliseum, life will go on as usual.
We have reached an end to the week that begins this marathon. The tests are finished, the stage almost to open up to you. They have had time to think about how it happened to you that they almost seventeen sold out coliseums? It is an unprecedented event, either with Portuguese musicians, both with foreign
Antonio Zambujo (AZ) -. Now we are more relaxed because the tickets are already purchased
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Miguel Araújo (MA) – the difference [to the usual routine road] is that they are seventeen concerts in one place and that’s how we have to think. They will not be the same people to do all the concerts, so it will be like if we gave one here [in Lisbon], another in Famalicão, another in the center area, but with everything quiet for being in the same place. We have to do sound-check every day. Being seventeen is out of orbit, but … What do you say
AZ – The seventeen you can not explain, but our state of mind is the same as ever. Despite our differences, we are two very quiet types. Be in two major concert halls in Portugal makes us feel a little more excited, but nothing great anxieties. If they told me I had to do seventeen surgeries followed, I was nervous because it was the first time. Now, seventeen concerts? I will do what I like
The show is announced in a very simple way:. Two voices, two guitars. Is exactly that, a sharing of songs, so just
AZ – It’s music for music without great inventions. Miguel, who plays better than me and who plays more instruments will not only play acoustic guitar, but also electric guitar, octave guitar, piano, double bass. Basically, we play the songs as we did, stripped of arrangements
MA -. I am an exaggerated bit and at one point, when I find her, already thirty-odd musicians on stage. The day after my concert at the Coliseum [in 2014], I, my wife and Zambujo went to lunch and she said she thought were needed only concert of voice and guitar. I was suggesting one of my concert, but Zambujo took advantage immediately. ‘Let’s go! We both just voice and guitar. ‘ The concept is that
Certainly not prepared a same alignment for all concerts
MA -.. For those who bought tickets for more than one, was well done you get there and see the same concert, but we only have set alignment for the beginning and the end. The rest is to savor the moment. Very open, as indeed it ever was. We have already given some concerts of this kind, but nobody noticed at the time. The latter was a disco in Monte Gordo
AZ -. No, the last was in St. George, but in a different context
MA -. This came when we had We thought the Coliseum. By coincidence, the guys who organize the [festival] Grant’s True Tales invited us. It was to tell stories, but how to tell stories are a bit miserable, we decided to take the crutches and we played four or five songs. We played a new song that still did not know well where it was going, and at one point we had to go get the rest of the letter and the audience raved. We prepare all very well, but the doting staff is with these things. So, not to disappoint our audience we also have these moments, some mistakes. Let’s take one iPadzinho for in those moments, you can see the letters that we do not know
How many songs prepared for the concerts
AZ -.? The enough to an hour and a half, two hours of concert. More than that becomes boring. I am a diehard fan of Leonard Cohen, but when I saw a concert him four hours caught droughts higher. In our music, people usually pay attention to the letter. It would be impossible to maintain concentration all the while
MA -. It’s like saying the Lobo Antunes, the most critical is the theater of the bank, when it starts to hurt his tail
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the Leonard Cohen in the 70s played before hundreds of thousands in the Isle of Wight festival. It is curious that now, when we are surrounded by sound and visual stimuli everywhere, all the time, there seems to be enthusiasm and interest in the reunion with this divestment
AZ -. Once, in conversation with the [Brazilian musician] Rodrigo Amarante, he told me something that made us shows his ground, and I really like to do also is to explore the silences in music, spaces, breathing. A concert like this that we do will surely live too it. Play as little as possible to leave these spaces open. But we are at a stage where there is an audience for everything. Miguel is part of the olives, which are the opposite of what we do, and are also entered.
Miguel Araújo said recently in an interview that there are no longer stars, such as the we knew in the past. Exhaust 17 Coliseus is not star
AZ – For the public is not. If it was a star of those as there were in the 1980s to seventeen exhaust Coliseum, it would be spoken for the rest of his life. But I am sure that, one month after our last concert, no one will remember that seventeen did Coliseum. The way people have access to the news today makes the past is an immediate and useless. The speed at which we live is one thing that bothers me a bit and still I did not adapt. But the reality is
MA -. What I meant is that in Portugal, for example, there was a channel and through television. Getting to the mainstream was through the eye of a needle, but any person who arrived became unavoidable and could no longer walk the streets. Today, and thankfully, you can be the champion of the world, have the recognition and consecration, but you will not be a person mainstream . Because nobody is. The result is that you can succeed, but you do not have fame, and this is a great thing. I met Rui Veloso in a fair Minho and he did not walk one meter without someone stopping to take a picture. This does not happen with this generation.
Despite differences as composers, there is a point where they touch, the relief that give small unsung heroes of everyday and seemingly insignificant things of day- to-day. This creates empathy with the listener that, in part, will be responsible for your success
AZ -. It is the technique of writing the window. But let’s not be with the story of humildezinho I hate. The Portuguese are only good if humildezinhos. It is obvious that we have merit, that people like us and want to listen to our music. We will not walk here to excuse us. People like us, period.
But that is precisely what they see from the window every day that inspires you?
AZ – Nowadays we are always looking for a savior. We’re all looking for a Messiah. Or is Obama or is the Pope, or you do not know who, when in fact the responsibility of change that is all. If we all change our corner, the world is gradually getting better. The music is the same thing. I prefer to sing that with which I identify
MA -. I started in music by the instruments. Bassist and was not linked to the letters. My hero was the Flea [bassist of the Red Hot Chili Peppers], but then it changed. My major musical influences are friends. Fred [high school friend, author of Night Hasty , the album For My Sing , Zambujo] is that showed me things that did not pay any attention. He plays poorly, but took two chords and did amazing things. It was then that I began to turn over the letters. My great heroes in this area are the Chico Buarque, Carlos Have or Bernie Taupin, Elton John. In my case, it is devotion to a school to which I loved belong.
The ability to make universal a very specific individual experience is the hallmark of a great song?
AZ – This is the story of the great successes. I understand that a hit becomes tiring for some people, it passes all the time on the radio, but you fail to touch him in a concert is almost insulting to anyone who is hear. At concerts we do outdoors in the summer, I am sure that a large percentage of the public to the front of the stage is waiting for the Pica 7 and Scooter . They are sure to shit to each other, but through them will get to the other and will get to know who I am.
You know well your idols. They know the songs, the lyrics, the face. What is meet and record with Chico Buarque? There comes a time that separates the idol on a pedestal that nice gentleman who has before him
AZ – In the case of Chico, not because his personality is no artist. It is the most amazing people I’ve ever met. The first time I played in Rio de Janeiro met Caetano Veloso. It was up to me, he gave me congratulations, all perfectly normal. The difference is that with the Chico’ve been dining and drinking cups and Caetano, no. But this is a matter of personalities. I have a friend who says that we are in the same ward. Me and Chico are probably the same ward and Caetano not.
In this Chico versions of album that is preparing in Brazil for a specific Chico, a specific period, that is to address no images were found
AZ – These are songs from the repertoire. Much of the music is his suggestion. Songs that he liked me to sing. Others were my choices. Since we recorded the Joana Francesa together. The material ranges from the
what can be born of these seventeen Coliseum? A disc, a new band, new songs
MA – Nothing. We will record the concerts and, if they are right, you can leave a disc. If music be fine, you can leave an single . It has come to be the blueprint for a joint drive. We had a repertoire that we liked a lot and that would be the City, but he gives 120 concerts a year, I gave last year 90. And he has the US and Brazil, I have Santa Marta de Penaguião. We decided to shares. He stayed with The Pica 7 , I got the Pilgrimage [d Parties St. Euphemia ]. ” It is the way to give life to the repertoire, otherwise would be collecting dust.
Closed this chapter, the following for each one individually?
AZ – following the recent Coliseus would go to Brazil to finish the album, but in the meantime there appeared a concert here and just go in April. Between the two phases of the Coliseum have a tour in the United States. In the last quarter of the year will be the launch [in Brazil] disk [versions of Chico Buarque]. Make records and play. It’s the only thing I can do. I’ve thought about cooking, but as I can not do a lot of work
MA -. In April comes out the new single of Olives. Called Cine Sunflower and is the story of a man named Feliciano is the last of the traveling projectionists Europe. The film opened in Odemira, the Sunflower Cinema, closes this year because he will retire. For the rest, I’m constantly making music. More to touch and be performer that’s my true craft.
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