Extract of Interview in Feedback Magazine, 2003 Portugal

Interviewer: Fernando Reis for Feedback magazine

Is it true that you like Teresa Salgueiro’s voice? Do you like Madredeus music as well?

Yes, Teresa Salgueiro of Madredeus … Their lyrics remind me of Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa; Consider their CD O Espirito Da Paz: “Momento Silencio; Nao e nenhum poema (it would not be a poem); nada existe; and acordar e que eu nao queria (All I wanted was not to awake)”. It seems their music touches on similar themes of silence, the sea, beauty, a languid trust in the fleeting moment (Pessoa); lines by him: “I look at it from the top of a nonexistent hill, / stitch after stitch forming a cloth; In the silence and deceptive light of the depths; / For its in the foil to my desire / That I feel nature and life to be real; Everything’s hidden.”

What do you know more from the Portuguese scene?

Dwelling and Aenima, on Portuguese label Equilibrium, are excellent. I have a CD by each and really enjoy Catarina Raposos vocals on Moments … Apparently Raphaela Hermes of the German band Das Zeichen is now living in Portugal.