There is already a date for the release of the fourth disc of Son of the Mother originals. Água-Má will be available on May 4th and will be composed of ten songs recorded between Lisbon and Madeira. Neither Rain nor Dogs, the first breakthrough can already be heard online, nobandcamp from Lovers & Lollypops. The presentation concerts are scheduled for May 8th at the TMM in Lisbon and on May 9th at the Ateneu Comercial in Porto.
"In the albums of Son of the Mother (Rui Carvalho) we find safe and well-defined stories with clear realizations of the paths that he decides to go through. The way he affirms his guitar and the language he practices comes from a strangeness with It was so from the beginning, with Palacio, a disc recorded at the house of his friend, and companion of arms in If Lucy Fell, Makoto Yagyu, then in Head, between Montemor-O-Novo and Gerês, or when Agua-Má follows the tradition, in a movement between Continental Portugal (Lisbon, in the studio HAUS) and the Madeira Islands, where it was during a week in residence in the first trimester 2018.
"Água-Má" is synonymous with jellyfish and the tentacles of the marine being may serve as an analogy for the strumming on the Son of the Mother guitar, or the transparency of the creature as a reference to the limpid and lucid ways of the compositions presented here. It's an album that starts in Praia, a dizzying race of someone who runs away with all the certainties, and ends at Casa, where he drops the guitar and leaves Agua-Má to rest in a record of tranquility in field recordings mode, leaving the sensation of the way traveled and fulfilled.
The distance between this Beach and the House is the glow of "Bad Water". Son of the Mother fiction places and situations narrated by someone who knows how to impose their own time and history. After a race to Praia, the calm, safety and softness of a Do Not Go Back Behind; the uncertainties of No, Do not Dance hold the gallop of Neither Rain nor Dogs. And in each song we hear the breathing of Rui Carvalho, a marking of the time and the proximity with which he wants us to hear his songs. It is a sharing of his intimate space with that of the listener, a constant refrain that accompanies the melodies of the guitar and fuses with the surrounding sounds, heard in some subjects, and which humanize the singular aesthetic of Son of the Mother. The places where Rui Carvalho Records builds the history of their albums and the locals only get richer by hearing the adventures that he lived with his guitar. "
