Music Fischer was Clubber: ‘We want to be taken seriously through the mockery carioca reveals the backstage of its musical creation that moves between experimental pop, urban poetry and unpretentious language that hides deep layers of meaning by way

Formed by Crystal (Graduated in Cinema and Master in Visual Arts from UFRJ), Malu (graduated in letters with a master’s degree in language studies focused on poetic translation), Pek0 (Training in Theater and Graduate in Fashion Teaching) and Vic (which moves between music and archivology), the Vera Fischer was Clubber He was born of postpandey improvisation sessions and became one of the most interesting projects in the current Brazilian independent scene.

In conversation during his first tour of the state of São Paulo, in New Music Circuitthe group revealed how they transform everyday situations into music and how they build a work that goes far beyond what appears on the surface.

The Meeting of Languages

You have known each other for ten years, but they started making music together just two ago. What has changed in this artistic meeting?

Crystal: We met in the postpandeia and we started doing improvisation sessions. The difference to me between written poem and music was precisely realizing that music has to be much more informal in saying. You can create images, but it’s not the same as doing something written. Not everything that works in the text will work on the declaration to sing.

Malu: For me it is 100% about experimentation of all possible sounds and how it makes us feel. Try to convey these emotions, sometimes in sounds, sometimes in words. It is nothing very definitive.

Crystal: For me it’s more about telling a story. Doing this album, testing the themes when we were improvising, I always tried to put something that connected our experience. Themes I feel we live together on this first album.

Pek0: In the shape of popular poetry, thinking that there is super scholarly poetry, with coded words. While there are ideas coded in our sound, in general it has popular language. And beyond popular language, our language, the way we speak among us.

From the beach to the stage: the creative process

The group has a striking feature: transforming everyday moments into music. “The cat now” was born from a playlist from Spotifywhile “Altinha” It arose literally from a situation on the beach.

PEK0: It was me, Crystal And my friends on the beach, very close to the water, and the boys playing high. The ball came toward me and came in my face.

Crystal: Then I was very stressed and said to Bofe like this “What was it? Don’t know how to play?” He replied, “What is it? And you? Enter here then!” Only he was very tasty … And I said, “Get in you!”

Pek0: From this whole situation we started talking and has come to poetry. Instantly, when she told me “Altinha”the beat of bossa has already come. It was not created, it was accessed. I said, “There’s a bossa beat here,” and when the proposal came, it fits perfectly.

Collective construction

A fundamental aspect of Vera Fischer was Clubber It is how the four members complement each other in the creative process, each bringing their own specialty to the construction of the songs. Despite robust academic formations, the group consciously opts for accessible language, creating what they call “popular poetry.” The letters that speak of Lindsay Lohan and Paris Hiltonit is because they are the reference divas for all of them, as well as the Kardashian (which is in the lyrics that gives the band name).

Crystal: I am very good at tieing stories. So I create the image on top of the thing that does not necessarily relate to the truth.

VIC: I compose, but I also have this relationship to bring the story.

Crystal: The lyrics are going back to an existential place because I am very close to philosophy, and this crosses everything I do. I feel that it goes through all the aesthetics of Veras This place of transgression, of poking the desire. It’s always a beautiful thing in the disgusting.

VIC: The sacred profane. The decay.

Crystal: Default the idea of ​​sex, desecrate the idea of ​​dominance. Dirty as much as possible, especially being a vocalist who has a female construction. I find it very important to bring this place from the dirty, the brute, the aggressive.

VIC: We are very encouraged to each other.

Crystal: It is very cool to do something taking with someone else when we are together. These are subjects that are rolling between us, not only the subject I am bringing.

PEK0: And it is a very interesting way to hear what we say and admire each other, and value each other, and say “Wow, your idea is the way, this madness you thought is a breath, let’s put it forward.” Accept that we have a crazy side and the power of it.

Crystal: People will always look and will not understand, they will not pay much attention, something that is normal. This is what differentiates an artist from another person who chooses another profession, is that the artist, he has the vision, he has the perspective and he goes after, he will make it happen, and at some point will only make sense to him, until he materializes.

Taken seriously through mockery

A central question for the group is how to be artistically recognized by maintaining unpretentious language.

PEK0: Even working with all this mockery, we feel we want to be taken seriously.

VIC: The beauty we deliver to work makes this mockery taken seriously, because we did this work very seriously. We deliver a reflection on a mockery that could just be mockery by mockery.

Crystal: You take “high” and can take only one side of sex, but in fact it has a lot to do with flirt and you can’t make a mistake. It is a sex war of flirting, a conversation competition.

The show as an emotional journey

The live set of Vera Fischer was Clubber It was thought of as an experience that evolves throughout the presentation, winning audiences from the first song to the last. The show begins with some strangeness, but as Beat increases and the layers revealing themselves, the “Cariocisse” will involve you, the reaction of people transforms completely, from initial curiosity to total delivery.

Crystal: I will unleash myself during the show. I start selling this sexual confidence, this marra, and in the last song I have to turn myself into this thing where you peeled there in front of the audience, showing your wound. It is a very crazy experience, you will take several peels. It’s exactly the feeling of our set, our album: it’s the night falling. It’s the sunset to the night falling, and as it goes, until the dawn comes, a lot happens. You change, go through a lot, you are several.

Future perspectives

About the future, the group expresses ambitions ranging from international festivals to a continuity of the serious work they have done.

Malu: I want you to see us as a great international artist of festivals. We want to play everywhere in the world.

Crystal: We want to be seen as friends and family, but also as people who have something to say.

Crystal: I always believed a lot at work and always dealt with this project at the same level as all my other works. From the beginning, when I saw that it was going to work, I realized that this is not a common reaction. Music has a way into the hearts of people who are very different from conceptual art. Botting work doesn’t have much mistake, since we have done the hardest: gain heart, put our face to game, have the courage to take the stage.

VIC: This connection we were able to create was an absurd fuel to dedicate ourselves.

To the Veras They represent a generation of artists who see no contradiction between academic formation and pop music, between deep reflection and accessible language, between artistic seriousness and mockery. They are, as they themselves define, several at the same time, and that is exactly what makes them unique in the contemporary Brazilian music scene.

Vera Fischer was ClubberIt is on the main digital platforms. The band keeps concert schedule updated on their social networks.

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