This album has more of Green Cape or not?
DE: This one those. The "Cafuca" is a lamp that people make, are specks of light of the fishermen at the sea. The Cafuca is this, we are specks of light and the sharing of that point that is mine, that is yours and belongs to all. I also did some research, the sung word, the oral tradition, I had to talk to older people, ask how to say a word correctly and its call. Green Cape needs it, is a relatively young country since independence and I think it is necessary to seek the eldest and turns it into something new, because they are the new creoles that bring this new opening, to be able to talk, improvise and communicate.
You said on an interview that the Cape Verdean musicians improvised bit, why this statement?
DE: I looked for each individual musician, regardless of whether one comes from Brazil, or if it was here, I was poking the individual of each. Bring the macro to the micro and vice versa. More than improvise was play and it does not happen only with the music, life in general is so. People get older and forget to play, but when we get old we go back to those times. This is cute. It was always something I liked as a child, was very frantic, broke my head, hurt knees hurt, but there was always something that held me, a good story and a tone of voice.
Therefore you tell many stories in your songs?
A: Yes, there are many stories. Some are experienced, others are felt, and others are viewed closely, like Angela of Alfama. I never spoke to her, but could see in her face, so the song tells about caress scar, she has a life story that you see, there's something gloomy, burdensome about her. If you only have an existence in the dark, you do not see the light and vice versa.
When you play Cape Verdean music in Cuba they identify the same African root or not?
DE: Cuban music has many African rhythms, using the congo, for example. My pace is more connected to Green Cape, which in turn also has a lot of mixing. What are great are people identifying themselves from within. You may think you have nothing of Portuguese music, but the way we played the guitar, we share that. In Cuba, officially I did not do a concert, I have only played for family and for friends, but that's why I say that music is an open language in that sense that people close their eyes, make their own trip and carry up . Not mine, it is from all of us. It is different because it is not tangible, you feel in many ways and this is different.
Are you preparing a new album?
DE: Yeah, I'm working on it. I'm inviting friends, musicians, but the idea is to work in duets.
You think it's more intimate?
DE: It's more intimate, but at the same time opens. When you have a great band, there is a hierarchy in the musicians, you have to have a direction and to reach an improvisation takes time. It is a more mathematical and a duet is more dynamic. It's you, the other person and the public. It's another energy. I've already started contacting musicians, some are from Finland, Cuba and others of Portugal. We're friends. The come to share. This is the starting point.
