A bit of everything – musician, composer, father of a musician, writer, voice actor and radio host – the artist is preparing his first album of new songs since 2018 while revisiting his trajectory.
Musician, composer, father of a musician, writer and radio host, Maurizio Pereira He presented himself to the public in 1988 with the band Os Mulheres Negras, together with André Abujamra. In his solo career, he released rock albums and became a daily troubadour.
In the audiovisual sector, Pereira has contributed to the soundtracks of programs, including the soundtrack for the sorceress Morgana and the music for the monster Mau no Castle of Rá-Tim-Bum. Participated in the program band Fanzineby Marcelo Rubens Paiva, and in dubbing he has voiced children’s cartoon characters on Discovery Kids.
Always exploring new territories, Maurício Pereira has launched the book My head is thundering (Miraveja, 2023), with texts and stories about his creations. This year, the second season of Spoken music program on Rádio Eldorado (Grupo Estado station), where he explores what songs and chords can provide.
In music, he doesn’t stick to one format. Currently, Mauricio has five active shows in his portfolio: The Microwith only the guitar of Tonho Penhasco; Micro Deluxewith more hits; A dive into surprisewith pianist Daniel Szafran; a trio formation with drums, which mixes its own repertoire with covers; and his collaboration with Turbilhão de Ritmos, with whom he performs carnival dances.
His latest new album was Autumn in the Southeastsince 2018. Subsequently, he released Microwith more raw reinterpretations of his songs, at the end of the pandemic. Now Maurício is starting to collect the lyrics written in the last four years to record his next work, still untitled. THE new album they should present each recorded song in a different way, some more intimate and others with a fully electrified band. “I want to see what each song will require,” explains the composer, or “singer,” as he likes to be called.
In addition to records, music and books, Maurício also had children. Two of them followed in their father’s footsteps and became musicians. Tim Bernardes and his brother, Chico Bernardesthey proved to be composers of the same calibre as their father.
Pereira spoke with the State on the material that will be brought to the studios in this second semester.
His last new album is from 2018, ‘Outono no Sudeste’. How have these four years been for your compositions? And, above all, how did the pandemic fit into this process?
We can imagine that the Autumn in the Southeast There are songs written up to four years before, in 2014. When the pandemic came I was traveling, I didn’t have a new work written, I wasn’t prepared to make an album. These new songs were written during the pandemic. So, in the lyrics, I think there is a bit of this moment of tension, the pandemic itself, the lockdown, the interrupted work for many people, and, at the same time, a tense political scenario, with a lot of fake news and threats. to democracy. Looking at the songs, I see that they reflect this agitation. In a non-literal way. I think the result is lyrics that seem like written poems. In fact, that’s how songs are born: first the lyrics. Figures, free associations, free verses, more abstract. Poetically there is more electricity, more tension, in the lyrics.
I’m racking my brains to put it to music. But I still know very little about this work. I have the lyrics, some melodies. I need to sing, during rehearsals and shows, to understand it better. But it’s clearly more poetically aggressive. And since I think I have different formations for each song, I imagine that the meaning of each lyric will determine the feeling of each arrangement.
In terms of the line, I think what unifies it is the fact that they are songs from the same era, lyrics more detached from logic, rebounds of my psyche during the pandemic, with the country under a government that has generated a lot of tension day in and day out for the people.
His biggest commercial success is “Trovoa”, with over 1.8 million plays on Spotify. When you prepare another album, do you look at it looking for a formula, thinking about how to make a new ‘Trovoa’?
It’s really crazy… My most listened to song lasts 6 minutes, without a chorus, huge lyrics, almost epic. I had no idea that this song would explode like that. Mysteries of the public and poetry. I don’t look at it thinking about the formula, because it’s my song that is most outside the usual song format. Usually, when I record, I don’t think about previous works, I ask myself how to find the best way to express the phase I’m going through, whether in poetry, in music, in the psyche, in creativity. My work is very artisanal and not always an album is the continuation of the previous one. If you notice, I change my lineup a lot with each album.
In almost all your records there are some songs that are chronicles. I imagine this too, but do you consider yourself a chronicler?
I compose in different directions. Women of Bengal OR Picnic at the Horto These are things for a chronicler, for sure. But there is also much more lyrical stuff, for example On Marswhich is very romantic. Or pop with a chorus like PenguinOR Everything for you. THE thunder It’s a song that talks a lot about the inner world, even if it involves a big tour around the city. I’m not exactly an expert on anything, but I can’t deny that many of the lyrics I write are born from small facts, from everyday things, from the street, from the moment. I think that a lot of what is sacred happens on the sidewalk, distractedly, microscopically. Crazy surprises right under our noses, which we don’t always notice when we’re busy.
Your attention to small things is also very much reflected in ‘Música Falada’, looking at the nuances of the songs. How do you put together the list of songs for each program?
Make the program Spoken music a Rádio Eldorado has been a fantastic experience. I am more attentive to listening to music, I look for advice everywhere, I think about possibilities to talk about music to the public. I am doing thematic programs, a bit to limit the search. After all, there is so much music in this world that I would not even know where to start a playlist. And I am trying to think, as I have been doing for a long time during the shows, about how to bring the emotion and fun of music to the public. Another interesting thing is that I have to become smart in writing lyrics, lyrics for the radio, which is a new exercise. Anyway, all this adds up, I don’t know exactly how, but I know that it adds up to my experience as a musician. (Follow the program, Here)
Now that the book ‘Minha Cabeça Trovoa’ will be obsolete, are you thinking about a new book in the future?
The book already contains four new texts, from this year. I don’t know yet how we, the publisher Mireveja and I, will deal with the fact that I have new texts on the air. It could be a new book, about the new album or something else. The people at the publishing house would like me to write more, regardless of whether it’s about texts or not.
And are you thinking of dedicating yourself to prose too?
I honestly never thought about writing. But writing the stories that accompany each song in the book, I can’t deny that it inspired me to write some prose. This door to writing has definitely opened. In any case, my desire now is to make this album and take it on the road, which takes time and energy.
Finally, would you highlight any of the new songs?
A beam of light covers. There is already music, made by Chico Bernardes, my son.
A beam of light covers
- a beam of light covers
- Madonna on white background
- White Madonna with black cloak on white background
- its position slightly to the right of the screen
- It makes everything more dramatic
- (optical illusion)
- It has a tone
- a copper ray of light captures
- TO
- it freezes
- TO
- all around
- the gift of telling stories, you know?
- the life it brings with it
- copper
- all around
- all around
Source: Terra
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