How do you start your creative process? You know each other since childhood and so there is a total empathy.
PM: It is a process that varies. One can get to the rehearsal room with the music, or by the way that already happened, show the words and music came out right at the moment. We always have a line and start to develop it. It's trying to understand what Andre transmits and is thinking, and then I try to interpret in my own way, as he could never would. We agreed, but everything becomes more beautiful when we have different perspectives, because he writes the lyrics and I give then a totally different life from the one he printed as an author. I live them differently.
AA: I think if we allow the presumption, the magic that can be in our music comes from there and we never tried to unravel it afraid to break the spell.
So never disagree?
PM: Yes, many times.
AA: We disagree, but I think it is only in the details.
Never reached the point of saying this song is garbage, stop.
AA: No. (laughs) Everything comes into the right way.
PM: Sometimes I can have a day when everything is not telling me much. I know he will put it it in the drawer, but he will reach it again. André also know how I will react. If he came in another time I have other incentives that will allow me to address the song he gave me at first.
Another curious fact is that you define your music as meta prog, what is it?
AA: That was very early on, was a very instrumental music and it was like, me on the drums and Pedro on the keyboard. All that made a sound technical and complicated. So what we were trying to do? We said meta prog, beyond prog, or below any type of music, a purgatory. The prog is always frowned upon, we do not know enough music to play it, there it was a lost soul. (Laughs)
Let's go back to the first album, what change from that work until the "modern painting"? You mentioned earlier that was more instrumental, but beyond that?
AA: At first there were a few songs and are even wackier. We wanted to make songs without guitars at the fireplace.
PM: It was more experimental.
I hear a merger, there are many musical experiences.
PM: Probably. We hear a lot of music, from Amalia, Animal Colective and grew up listening to the Beatles. And if we recall it they were the first band to have fusion in their music. We as avid consumers perceive that there is a mixture of several things. There are themes in our music that we thought as how we present it live? Like the Beatles thought about some of the tracks on "Sergeant Pepper", which never were play on stage by them, because it was not possible. We approached the topics that we recorded in studio with a strong production, how two people can present them?
Then there are themes in these albums that you do not know how to present them in public?
PM: Yes, we have some. We know that we are two and more elements that would be needed to cover other instruments that are on the record.
The last?
PM: Yes, there must be an empathy that has not happened yet, I do not know if there will be with another musician who may belong to Aquaparque. We're screwed, we're a bubble on its own, we get along very well, breathe a very close air while musicians and it is difficult to enter another person, it's complicated, but we do not closed the door.
However, you do solo shows, is a prelude to the end or not? Or is it just a break in Aquaparque?
PM: It's a parallel. André has already with Joana da Conceição with the "monkey troop," since Aquaparque started. I introduced myself live, most recently before this second album. In things more circumscribed, but we always had these projects in parallel.
Already a third record on sight?
AA: I started playing some of the songs on this new work, because in promotion of this album since April, when we were out playing, we wrote new songs to keep everything fresh and organic. We looked at the first album, what we could play that made sense with the new themes of this "modern painting" and then as we were on a wave of good work, write two or three songs that were included in the concerts. Plans to record still none.
Aqua park why?
AA: There's no great history, we wanted to start a band and needed a name and did this it, because is the idea is fun without responsibility, an image of the corny past of the aqua parks in the Algarve and it could very entertaining. Most bands the very good had names that do not want to mean anything, the Blur.
PM: It's a good memory, which does not exist and does not make sense.
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