The album has nine tracks: six of which are not published and Apparitions of Frejat, Ana Cañas and Will Calinha, from Living Color
Ney matogrosso and the band Hectumformed by Guilherme Gene AND Marcelo Laderthey started the year with the right foot with the exit of the album Songs for a new world (2025), who was already giving the singles “Your blood“AND”Our scream“With nine tracks, six unpublished, the project has the participation of big national and international names: Frejat, Ana Cañas AND Will Callhoundrummer of the band Living color.
In conversation with Rolling Stone BrazilNey AND Grove They say that the reception of the disc was “the best possible”. They say that the public understood the depth of the texts and the connection between the artists. And speaking of the lyrics, the disc is full of reflective songs. To write some songs, Grove He had partnerships of names such as Paulo Sérgio Valle, Mauro Santa Cecilia, Déa Moura AND Sérgio Brittoof Titans.
The inspiration of Grove It comes from the most diverse places, as the musician says. The track “Your blood, for example, was born from a conversation of two porters.” , but it’s your blood. ” Ney Complete: “I complained about someone else, but it was a relative.”
In the texts, the composer explores in a more complete way as we could all be consanguinei. The song has also become a sort of football for disk messages.
Longtime partner
Although the album is a project released in 2025, this is not the first partnership between Hectum AND Ney. In 2017, Grove He worked in a musical theatrical project that honored the singer. “It was then that we saw each other for the first time,” recalls the veteran.
Later, in 2021 they join in a version of the classic Milton NettingAND Ronaldo Bastos“Nothing will be like before“On the way back to this first recording, I went home and I thought about how it would be”Your blood‘, of which I had already done with the voice of Ney“Remember GroveThat some time later, he took an agreement and sent him to his partner.
“When I heard the song, I liked it so much that I didn’t have a project yet – and I said ‘if you intend to record, I invite me and it’s then that the approach of us started,” recalls Ney. From this, Gê worked in banners who had the same theme.
The things I read on the album are that the songs are in the context of the world at this moment, of a kind of desperate world, mad and a half lost and, by chance, we arrive with a repertoire that is faced precisely. – Ney matogrosso
But it indicates a way out! – Guilherme Gene
A new world
The name of the album came from the idea that we are a blood and “at the same time speaks with Hectum“explains Grove. “This name was taken by hundreds, the hectometer is one hundred meters. But it also metaphorically means a planet, I and the March We call it hectares. So it would be a planet in which art and love predominate, as it should be here.
Universal love, respect and solidarity is what artists expect from this new world, or how ney summarizes: “Everything that is not in this [mundo] That we are living. With rare exceptions.
The first collaborative album in two decades
Last time Ney matogrosso Published a collaborative album – Wandering (2004), with PedRo Luís and the ParedeAND – 21 years have passed. He says that what led him to undertake a project like this was the repertoire. “I wasn’t thinking about it, but when Gê approached and started listening to the songs, I was interested.
He says it in WanderingThe band went to his house and together he decided the repertoire and evidence. “I was not authorial there, here and I am very impressed by GE’s ability to play this amount of tools, I really remain.”
Visual
“Your blood“He won a clip directed by Batman Zavarezewho had already worked Ney Other times and praise: “The most beautiful things I’ve ever seen were he who did”. For them, visual elements help to integrate what we are listening to.
And if Ney AND Hectum They were no longer a very interesting combination, everything gets a new layer with the participation of Frejat, Ana Cañas AND Will Callhoun. Grove He says that to call partners for songs, he looks for people who have an artistic connection.
From that, Frejat Insert the track “Solaris“. The need for a female voice made Ney suggested the name of Dwarfwith which he had already sung. Here, however, the artist shows a new facet, singing more hard than we are used to.
Accident AND Grove They met in a seminar in Rio in 2023. After learning that he would come to Brazil to perform with the Living colorThe musician thought it would be a great addition to the project. With the help of the photographer Marcos HermesPhotographer responsible for the cover, the meeting took place.
Songs for a new world This is not just an album. It is a meeting of generations who seek through music, revolutionizing the world by art. That witness the privilege of this event.
Source: Terra
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