Deolinda is a musical group that broke away from the boundary between Portuguese popular music and fado. The songs are a reflection of various musical influences and the upcoming album promises something new is the result of the wanderings thru the world of this unique band.
The sound of Deolinda is associated with fado, a musical aspect that became more apparent in your second work "two stamps and a seal", are you already thinking about a third album?
Ana Bacalhau: Yes we are already implements it. We have new songs and we waited to enter the studio later this year and launch new work next year.
In musical terms this third album what will differ from others?
AB: Well, first of all will have miles and miles of road. We are a different band than when we recorded the first album and the second also. These differences will be reflected in the music, lots of countries we have already visited and certainly the influence of these trips will be there. In this third album we want to try new formats of song we want to play more, we'll certainly be Deolinda, but a new record.
When you talk about influences you also drink other musical styles?
José Pedro Leitão: Everything around us eventually interferes with the writing of Peter and any influences are welcome.
Pedro da Silva Martins: The fact that we contacted with other musical realities and just to give an example, Luis ordered an instrument here, from Madera the machete and so there is this demand to seek new sounds, new instruments and ideas. All this brings new charges for what we are now at this time and when recorded other albums we’ll be different people with different maturity and other experiences.
This new work will have more songs of revolt or not, since "a fool that I am," became almost an anthem of Portugal?
JPL: I think this is part of our way of being, of the four of us, and long before "a fool that I am," the first record already had this burden and will continue.
AB: And unfortunately there are many reasons why we are still talking about it.
How many tracks have already for the album?
JPL: We do not know, we're doing tapes, we felt that there is a path to an album, but we have not decided.
AB: We write, we listen and then choose the alignment and finally the title.
How to define this new album?
Luis Martins: It's new, we test many words.
Now speaking of your musical work itself, fado purists do not bother with the way you misrepresent this kind of sound?
JPL: More than misrepresenting we ended up looking all influences and gave a little of what we hear.
Luis Martins: Sorry Zé, I think they understand that we do not do fado, because we did not come from that environment, Anna is not fado singer, we do not play the Portuguese guitar, and we are not a set of fado. They realize that it is a different proposal that does shed some reading to this musical. This may not happen much in Portugal, but in the U.S. it happens a lot with the blues, there are many influences from rock and jazz to fetch. I think our songs are healthy readings, which will get ideas and try to take ownership of the source and this is different.
Continue to have a feedback from the song "a fool that I am" because of its topicality?
JPL: We noticed not only in Portugal and abroad that this song is addressed when talking about the country and its current situation. There are many foreign journalists who remember "a fool that I am" and talk with us, they want to know our opinion and we feel that this has not stopped unfortunately. If this focus was not allowed to happen it meant things had changed and the music ceased to make sense in that respect, so I think we continued to be present.
AB: One example of this phenomenon is that in three weeks touring the U.S. after a concert we were invited by a university to talk with American students who wanted to discuss the song, whatever motivated it, the crisis and the austerity, so I think it's been very interesting to see that the issue and the reasons for this patent discontent has travel a lot outside.
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