Musiciorigun: ‘We want people to connect with our ideas’

When three young people from Feira de Santana came together in 2016 to create music, they might not imagine that years later they would be running the interior of São Paulo in a circuit that would put them face to face with completely different musical realities from yours. THE IORIGUN – Iuri (vocal and guitar), Moyses (low) and Leonel (battery) and Diego (guitar) – represents a new generation of Bahian bands that seeks to expand the horizons of regional rock, facing the challenges of a scene that, although rich, still fights for visibility.

The first chords of a musical friendship

The History of IORIGUN It started almost casually. Iuri attended a studio to record with another band when he met Moyses. “This friend of mine called me and said: ‘Old man, there is a kid here that you have to know, that he is good fucking, he likes the things you like'” Moyses. “Few people heard Kings of Leon in Feira de Santana at the time “.

What started with a ride to the sound of Kings of Leon He soon became a musical partnership. “The other day at night we took a song from HOMESHAKEthen I sent the low to him, he made the guitars, and then we were recording “, remember Moyses About the first moments of the duo.

The first demos were produced precariously but full of creativity. “He recorded the guitars on his cell phone, took the audio, played on the computer, put a distortion effect and made the guitars with it,” he has fun Moyses when remembering the initial process. “And it recorded the microphone with the notebook microphone.”

Leo Completed the training in 2017, bringing his technical baggage and turning the duo into a trio. “When was it a song from IORIGUN? When we get there Friday night, Saturday and Sunday, sit and let’s make such a song, “explains Iuri on the collaborative process that defines the band’s identity. At the moment Diegoguitarist, completes the group.

Bahian rock: tradition and contemporary challenges

Doing rock in Bahia carries its particularities. “It has this stigma of being the land of axé,” points out Moysesand Diego complete “but Bahian rock is contemporary with other movements in Brazil. We had Raul Seixas, Venus shirt, Cascadura“.

The challenge, according to them, is not the lack of tradition, but structural issues. “Salvador is not a capital that we would normally expect to be a rock pole in the Northeast,” he analyzes Leonel. “It’s a city that gets very far from other capitals. The costs to tour are unfeasible for bands that are at first.”

To Iurithe audience is also a factor: “As a music listener, I missed the city much in the city. Alternative rolleys, bands.” The region consumes more backcountry, forró, pissing, arrocha … which makes it difficult to have this “alternative audience”.

The Digital Revolution: Between Need and Resistance

The conversation inevitably came to social networks, mandatory territory, but not always comfortable for musicians. “Apart from a musician, it has to be an artist too”, philosopher Samaraproducer of the band. “The person needs to connect beyond music.”

Iuri Admits the initial difficulty: “I don’t use social networking in my personal life. So I don’t have a relationship … but if we don’t, it doesn’t spread the way everyone is in Tiktokin Instagram“.

The solution found was collaboration. With the help of a journalist friend, they were able to develop a more organic strategy. “You are charismatic, they are funny, they are fun. You have to show it,” Samara. “It’s no use for the person to watch show video playing. She wants to see you talking bullshit, wants to see photo hanging on the tree,” he jokes.

Sound evolution: creative freedom and experimentation

THE IORIGUN has undergone a significant sound evolution over the years. In the beginning, the references were more rigid. “In the first whole EP, they were just riffs,” he remembers Leonel. “There are music that we already recorded and said, ‘No, let’s not record because there are chords'”.

Musical maturity brought creative freedom. “We do what we want,” celebrates Iuri. “There is something pulled to the electronic, there is something that has orchestra, there are several things that are already in the drawer and will bring a new palette.”

Each member brings their distinct influences: some in pop and indie, another with roots in reggae and afrobeat and also classic rock and punk hardcore, but there is also admiration for pop giants as Michael Jackson and Lady Gaga.

Dreams and aspirations: Huck’s Cauldron to the covers of Piseiro

When asked how they would like to be recognized, the answers reveal both ambition and poetic humility. “The largest band in Brazil”, responds Leo Without hesitation, laughing.

Iuri It has a more introspective view: “I want you to see my creative part, the ideas I develop inside my head, which has thousands of voices shouting. That people connect with them the way they find it better, because art is more than everyone else.”

Moyses expresses the desire for technical quality: “I want to hear the album of IORIGUN And like as much as I like the records of Radiohead. May the sound of us get there “.

An unusual dream of the band is to see their songs gain versions in other genres. “The dream is a pissing singer to make a version,” confesses one of them. “We keep imagining a partnership with João Gomes. I am imitating him singing music of ours. “And of course, do you have to dream of the big TV shows and why not the world?

The circuit experience: growth and connections

Participation in New Music Circuit represents a milestone for the band. “This is the first time we are doing. The first time of anything we do is always important,” reflects Diego.

The experience of playing to audiences who do not know their songs brought learning. “We have a faithful audience who knows the songs, who sings and jumps,” explains Iuri About the shows in your region. “This is completely different. No one knows your sound, the crowd is wanting to find out what that is there.”

The Future: Tangible and Intangible Dreams

THE IORIGUN continues to sail between the dream and the practical reality. “What challenges us most is because we don’t live on it yet,” he admits Samara. “When you don’t live on it, you have to handle other things. The time you have there to dedicate yourself to the band is what you take the most.”

Iuri Works as a psychologist, Moyses with design in the public safety of Bahia, Leo with computer science and Diego In the technical part of audio – professions that, according to them, enrich the creative process of the band.

For the future, they carry both concrete ambitions and abstract dreams. “I want to do more shows with the bands we know here,” he says Diego on the connections created in the circuit. “There is a lot on this side that is not tangible, what we still feel.”

THE IORIGUN It represents a generation of artists who, even facing the structural difficulties of making authorial music in the interior of Brazil, persists with creativity, collaboration and, especially, with the certainty that their “thousands of voices shouting” deserve to be heard far beyond the borders of Feira de Santana.

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IORIGUN is available on major digital platforms and has just released the single “Every girl like me = (=)”in partnership with Duchess. The band keeps concert schedule updated on their social networks.

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