In an exclusive conversation during the circuit, the carioca singer and songwriter opens her heart about creative process, lessons and why she prefers the “offline”
We find Dora Morelenbaum during the New Music Circuitwho took her to traveling shows with other bands in the cities of Sao Paulo, Sao Jose dos Campos, Americana and Campinas. Far from the intense dynamics that marked its times in the Bullet DesireShe seems to be exactly where she needs to be: in a state of contemplation, discovering nuances of her own work that only creative loneliness can reveal.
Daughter of musicians who joined the band Tom Jobim, Doer It carries in DNA a musical heritage that took a long time to accept as truly yours. Your father is a cellist, arranger, conductor, music producer and composer; Your mother is a singer. “They participated for many years in the band Tone And that very much guided their work after that too. To this day they are great promoters of the work of Tone“, account.
The grandmother taught piano classes and was her first teacher. “But it was still in this dynamic, I was still very small. It was always something that I was in love, too, somehow.”
The discovery of the voice itself
“I think only in adolescence I said: no, I want to do that. But I like something different from what was already natural at home,” he recalls. That’s when I met friends from school with other musical references that something changed: “Then I was bringing more to me. I said: Oh, ok, this is not mine, you know? It’s my parents, my grandmother.”
It was in this process that it began to compose the first songs, which are present on the first solo studio album, Picker (2024): “There are three songs and one that came in later.”
This first EP was important to understand the dynamics of music production. “It is a subject that interests me a lot, and that I see more and more making sense artistically. The people I admire have a lot of this relationship with production.”
Bullet Desire
THE Bullet Desire He graduated at the end of 2020, during the Covid-19 pandemic. “We were isolated together. It was more because I was about to release my EP. Julia [Mestre] also. THE Lucas [Nunes] and the Zé [Ibarra] They had a band together. And each one had their projects wanting to end. “
The initial idea was practical: “We said, why we don’t set up a studio at the Julia And the work ends there? Only then we started something else. “
We started making Lives and a demand from the audience has appeared: ‘You are a group, I love this band’. And us: ‘We are not a band! But you are enjoying it ‘.
Then came the invitation of the label Koala To do a show and disc. “So it was a sequence of factors that went naturally. It was not like, guys, let’s get together.”
Meme and viral success
The group became a meme in the program Free culturewhen they answered the question “Free culture put Bullet Desire“.” I think the meme is wonderful, “he says Doer. “A lot of people met us because of the meme and came to talk later: ‘Wow, I heard your sound, I didn’t know. I saw it in the video and loved it.’ A lot of people hated too, but … fuck, it’s part.”
For her, it’s important to have a sense of humor: “We have to laugh at you. We have to take yourself seriously when you need to take it. And you have to not take it too when you don’t need it.”
The current break from the group
About the current moment of Bullet Desire, Doer It is clear: “We are at this moment we say: let’s give this time and see what happens. I think for me, personally, everything from me Bullet It made a lot of sense at that moment. The invitation, we are together, the subjects, the reasons. And now it’s a totally different thing. “
She sees as a natural cycle: “For us to go back at some point and produce a new thing, we need to resignify these wishes, these ideas.”
Solo Tour: Alone, but accompanied
Doer She is performing on her own, a relatively rare experience for her. “Even in my solo work, I’m always accompanied. It’s interesting to be alone too. The loneliness of the room, the thoughts, and this creative space that opens.”
She recognizes the need for these moments:
We are always surrounded by people and many times, somehow … You don’t have time because of work and you don’t have time because of their own disposition. Sometimes we need this loneliness, even if it is painful.
During the New Music Circuitshe observes the different creative processes of colleagues. “My moment of creation depends a little on this state of loneliness and focus, dive. And then I see the Veras Composing in the van, with an idea that suddenly came … Their creative process is very movement. “
About the experience of Circuit In itself, she highlights the unique opportunity of coexistence: “I’ve made a lot of travel with a lot of people, but it’s never like this time. You or travel with your own band and meet the crowd in backstage for half an hour. It’s never an intense exchange like that.” For her, the format allows discoveries: “You get to know more about the nuances of other works. And that’s it to bring this sound to people who don’t know, because there is not so much demand in any way. Or exists, but they don’t know it exists.”
Music as primary communication
“Music was my primary language”, explains Doer about your relationship with art. “At home and with my family. I understood a lot of things through that, first. So it’s funny because my process is kind of different in this sense, my linguistic understanding of things comes after my most subtle understanding.”
For her, the song transcends words: “Music is an invisible subject and at the same time is what everyone can understand, even without translating into words.”
The complexity of Brazilian music
When you talk about Brazilian music abroad, Doer It is cheered up: “Several songs that leave Brazil have this influence of harmonic complexity. You take it to gringa and people stay: ‘guys!’. Everyone doesn’t even know how to feel that.”
It credits this wealth to the country’s musical tradition: “Samba already had a lot of this origin of great harmony. Bossa Nova, somehow, stretches it to the fullest. João Gilberto It has great influence on the Bahia guys and everything that comes after that. “
“Often Brazilians will hear a harmony with various paths and will find it normal and feel it in some way. You take it to gringa and people already strange and find it amazing,” he notes.
She has played in Europe several times. “Man, it’s very different. The crowd there goes and has no idea what sound is. And it’s more excited than fans here.”
Recently, she was in Poland and was impressed with the local music scene: “I went to some unrestroid, totally experimental shows. And it was the roll of Friday. The crowd sitting, enjoying a hallucinated and hallucinating sound. I said: there is no such place in Rio de Janeiro.
Criticism of the current consumption of music
About streaming and social networks, Doer It’s straightforward: “I don’t have a good reading of things that happen on the internet, maybe it puts me as an old person. But 15 seconds is not a song, it’s just a fragment. Wait, let’s hear the whole music?”
She only really understood the public’s return to the shows: “People who enjoy my music enjoy being in a show and connecting with that. It has to do with this real, in person, presence place.”
And criticizes the current system: “We are a kind of strange time of music consumption. Many things need to regulate so that we have a healthier consumption. And not only conceptually, but also for musicians to be paid. Someone is working to happen, and that person is not making money.”
DoerMorelenbaum follows touring through Brazil and the world, and next month performs in the Festival koala. Your latest solo work, Pickerit is available on major digital platforms.
Source: Rollingstone
Earl Johnson is a music writer at Gossipify, known for his in-depth analysis and unique perspective on the industry. A graduate of USC with a degree in Music, he brings years of experience and passion to his writing. He covers the latest releases and trends, always on the lookout for the next big thing in music.
