This written of almost entirely album is done by you, except one song, why you included it?
ML: Because it is so. This is a theme with the allure of the writing something for this trio, who had something classical and the idea of escape. I thought the entire record for pulling another side to the universe of this trio, ie I think the sound is fuller somehow with this theme.
This work had a lot of you and a memory Bernando Sassetti .
ML: Absolutely. I did basically an author album, after the death of Bernardo and how he was a musician with whom I shared not only the stage, in many other projects, we recorded together, had fun together and I feel I really miss him and it is perhaps the first person in my universe that I lost and I was not expecting, so I wanted to devote it him this record .
Why dry land ? Musically is drier ?
ML: No, I wanted it to be a metaphor . I imagined a dry land , an area where there are few people , is sparsely populated and to be able to live in it you need anything for that land becomes fertile and I thought it was beautiful the idea of a musical universe that was not very populated. I do not like to say I did something that no one ever did, because it is never like that, someone always did something similar, I thought it was little explored and I used it .
Just as we were talking before we recognized your work in a duo with Maria João and you told me that you going back together.
ML: We never stop being a duo, what we have done is go beyond the projects we do together. We are going to Southern Africa, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Botswana and South Africa and Brazil in May. Now, she has other things, as I have. And so made people think we stopped playing together, but not.
After this tour you plan to record a new album ?
ML: We made an album a year and a half ago, not yet two. I think this season and having made 14 albums together, the pace may not be equal. We did an album a year and I think now might not be the same, but we will do more .
You participated in many musical projects, among them musicians with less experience, even very young. Like to take this risks ?
ML: It attracts me to venture into different things that I have never experienced. I like a lot in terms of music, classical , jazz, pop and rock, and of course I cannot do everything, but occasionally if I think I can get close to other areas and are enriching experiences that attracts me doing. There is a third side in your question, what attracts me is not playing with big names, I like to play with musicians who I respect and may be known or unknown complete, if I like them and think they are great musicians have to go.
And the project with André Fernandes ?
ML: Andre is an incredible musician and has what is very important I think in a musician, there are some but not many, his music has a face, an identity, that is it. If I hear one of his songs in the car, not knowing that it is his, I'm sure I recognize it. He invited me to this project and I accepted immediately, there is no doubt and I'm delighted .
Looking back on your career that is already long and successful there is still something you would like to do and never done?
ML : I hope many ( laughs ) I never looked at the future of a closed form, creating goals that are sealed. In the sense that from the moment I decided to do it is solved , one of the things that I find charming in music and art is the diversity, this side of life to be alive, to go and taste. There are many things I still did not know what I'll do , but not knowing is fascinating, because the world is in constant motion, people show up, and music also changes. When something fascinates me as soon it appears I have the idea to try .
