The cavernous voice of Zeca Medeiros refer us to a very unique kind of record, of author music with traditional roots. It is a creator of sounds and words that brings us to a universe full of feelings and emotions.
In your performances you always sang the traditional music of the Azores, this approach has always been well regarded by the public?
Zeca Medeiros: Is not only the traditional songs. I started playing in dance groups, went on the ship crew Funchal as a musician, though I think the traditional music inspires a lot of the music I do, I sometimes participate in such projects, the vast majority of my music is mine.
You gather some of this music? Or just merely hear it?
ZM: I made very few collections. Some in parallel with my work in RTP and did the recordings in that context, but few. I worked with the brigade Victor Jara and most recently participated in the project of Pedro Lucas, "o experimentar na m'incomoda" that blends traditional music of the Azores with some electronic languages most modern.
The audience has changed over the years?
ZM: The audience has changed when I started playing was before the Carnation Revolution era and it was another country and I think in general, even if the Portuguese media ignore much of Portuguese music that is done and it's a shame, I think there is a trend in the public, there is increasingly more people involved in the Portuguese music and popular.
The same applies to your music?
ZM: Yes, but there are great references of authors in this field, Zeca Afonso is my main inspiration. There is a growing audience that identifies with this kind of songs that are inspired by an author tradition.
With a career spanning over 40 years as a musician how you looks at how this new world, where the CD does not sell music and is copied?
ZM: I have not had proper musician career, because for many years my main activity was working in television, and I did a lot of music over the years has been sound tracks for TV films I produced for RTP. I've always been on the fringes of the Portuguese music and so as always sold very little, still sell very little, lately I am selling more, I have a route far apart.
But by choice?
ZM: Partly by choice, because my life took me there, but also the fate that led me down this path.
Looking at these new generations of musicians you recognize new values?
ZM: Yes, there are many new people in the country, including Madeira, which follows this path of music inspired by the traditional like banda d'além. In the north there is an extraordinary group that is the "presence of ants" in a way is a feature which was opened by Zeca Afonso.
He was a cross figure?
ZM: Continues to be because it was a huge figure and so inspiring for me as for the young people.
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