On the eve of the release of his first solo album, Mateus Carrilho tells how MPB and his passion for Brazil helped him overcome his own insecurities: “my album is about Brazil”
When he announced, still in 2022, the first solo album of his career, Matthew Carrilho he had promised: the album would be “different from everything” that he had already released. And that’s what happened, in fact, in the last days of March. “Boy”, the first single of the new era, contributed to soft pop with an MPB feel. It was a new Matthew.
“A lot has changed. Maturity, the moment I find myself today…”, explained the singer from Goiás, former Banda Uó, to Rolling Stone Brazil.
“I went solo in 2018 and started this quest about who I was, what I wanted to do or tell… and the desire to be even better came, to do work that I would be proud of in 10, 20 years .”
In music, Carrilho talks about the ‘boys’ in his life, delivering with a tropical aesthetic and a foot in samba, the first of the records that, according to him, will arrive more authentic and autobiographical on the next album. “This time, the album is much more about me”, says the musician.
Along the way, Carrilho would face himself – or the insecurity of overcoming his own marks from the past. Successes that include, it is worth remembering, the partnership with duda beat It is jaloo on “Chega” – which now has 15 million views on YouTube – and the uber hit “Corpo Sensual”, feat with Pablo Vittarwhich catapulted his career to another level in a distant 2018, when he was still taking the first steps of his post-Banda Uó trajectory.
“Without a doubt, the numbers thing was a concern I had there in the past. It was something that limited me, actually, because I already wanted to leave for this new place, to have shown much more from that side, but I ended up postponing this for fear of people not understanding, or of being a song that didn’t chart so much, because it’s not something that’s happening right now…”
The answer to the fear came, again, in the authenticity that he promised to deliver to the new work: “I saw how much I want to leave something about my history in the music that I make, and that encouraged me to go to that place. It is the first time that I I talk about myself,” he says. And in the wake of the delivery in “Menino”, he guarantees that he will continue releasing songs with a biographical background: “There are songs that are really personal, so you will see the heartbroken song there, that really happened, it was real. And there is the playful thing too , which I love. We build these narratives, always with a lot of love.”
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Without saying much about the new album – which comes out this semester – Carrilho claims that he had to study a lot of Brazilian music to reach the desired result. In Jorge Ben The MC Hairygoing through Joao Gilberto, Caetano Veloso, Chico Buarque, João Gomes It is Kevin O Chris: “I go to many places, Brazilian music is very classy”, he defends.
From the history, linked to cheesy pop with an electronic touch, the singer adds that the new album continues to have interference from previous styles.
“We wanted to make this mix. And my idea, from the beginning, was to make a contemporary album, which drank from the past, from past references, with what we have today”, he explains.
In the wake of releases, the Goiano will release a new samba as a second single – this one, however, with the addition of synthesizers. “The opening of my record is an orchestra, it was really recorded, and we mixed it with funk. So we have these two places and the whole record permeates this contemporary space of creating new horizons for the music that I make today .”
Partnerships, one of his signatures, should also appear on the new album, albeit moderately. According to the musician, the objective was to select the names of friends and people he admires, to add to at least two tracks of the material.
“These are artists that I love and that have great respect for the Brazilian public.” More than re-introducing himself to his audience, Carrilho seems to want to identify himself in the midst of something bigger that he had been doing until then, in addition to testing the reach of his creation within the country’s music. Something “different from everything”, in fact, that he had done until then:
“When we talk about Brazil, it’s impossible to stay in one place. My new album is about Brazil, about the passion I have for Brazil, for what is ours.”
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Source: Rollingstone
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