For Humberto Gessinger, leaving Engenheiros do Hawaii was a “delicious loss of glamour”

For Humberto Gessingerthe exit from the Hawaii engineers it was like a “delicious loss of glamour.” The statement was given by the musician to Commerce Newspaperfrom Rio Grande do Sul, to whom he spoke about the new album, old and recent partnerships and the approaching 60th anniversary.

On tour with the new solo album Four Corners of a Round WorldGessinger spoke, in the interview, about the group he was part of between 1985 and 2008:

“By no longer using the name Engenheiros do Hawaii, I felt a delicious loss of glamour, which did me a lot of good.”

In the conversation, he also commented that, as an artist, he feels 21 years old: “But now I have 38 more that have been added to them.”

“I keep writing, playing and singing like I always have and I keep getting people together to play my songs on the road.”

New tour

The launch of the tour Four Corners of a Round World happened on the 30th, at Araújo Vianna Auditorium, in Porto Alegre. Regarding the result of the show, the musician was satisfied:

“It far exceeded expectations. I already knew that the tickets had been sold out for days and that they were selling the space to anyone willing to stand. But I didn’t expect that people would be getting to know the songs on the new album so well”, he said.

According to Gessinger, the launch of the tour in Rio Grande do Sul was also notable for the complete structure of the show, as he himself imagined, with a power trio, an acoustic trio and a quartet in two songs. In the setlist, he included five songs from his new work, but also classics from those who accompanied him at other times in his career.

Reflecting precisely on the passage of time and the longevity of his artistic work, he reflected: “I always see my career as a continuous flow, several chapters of the same book”, he says. “Despite knowing that ‘new’ is a word considered sacred in our environment”

According to the musician, the passage of time would not have changed the way he produces, but rather the way he understands his work:

“Now I write less and I think I write better – at least I’m more satisfied.”

Read Humberto Gessinger’s full interview with the journalist Márcio Pinheiroof Commerce Newspaperhere.