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I really like this São Paulo craze.
This gigantic range of possibilities that you have.
When a city is this big, with so many different people,
With so many different ideas, and so many different things happening at the same time.
That's what the city is about. If you look from the outside, it's gray, all the same, plain...
But when you come close, you see that, actually,
It's made of many colors, that enhance each other.
And what you see from a distance, as gray, It's just the mix.
I'm sure that this project is the one that represents Dani the most.
It's the one she's most involved with, because that's what she is about, entirely.
She wrote 70% of the songs, she went to get them.
Dani is very important to our generation.
She's the first artist who really... Always took the stand for our generation.
The new composers.
And many people get to know our work through her.
I'm really happy, in this moment, in my age, with all my musical experience,
That she's thinking about uniting them. Because I believe in that.
Bossa nova was made like that, Tropicalismo was made like that,
Through the union of people, of artists
This is our first song together.
I thought about the way she swings, the way she sings, and the idea started to appear.
We both tried, I did with the song, and she did with the lyrics,
We tried to get close to each other's style. That was curious.
I see in Dani's work, that the main subject is the music, I feel that.
There's a musical essence in it, that's stronger than most artists of our generation.
Dani's work is very interesting because it reaches beyond the music.
She puts images into words, and words into images.
The songs have pictures built in them,
such as the images have music in them.
I mean, I was there watching a concert, I was seeing music. Or I was listening to images.
This music has a lot of improvisation, and personal contributions of each musician.
So the camerapeople must also be flexible, and in deep sync.
They must improvise musically, along with the musicians.
She puts her music on YouTube,
She contacts pirate blogs and lets them share her music…
YouTube is the FM Radio nowadays. Today, if someone wants to listen to the songs,
They go to YouTube, watch the video and listen to the music.
Well, if everyone is in YouTube… Isn't the artist supposed to be where the people are?
The people are at YouTube, so put the artist there.
When the songs and lyrics were done, and they still had no title
She shared that with the fans.
A lot of people gave her great ideas that ended up as the songs' titles.
I believe that the most important part of using a new technology
Is to have the real intellectual courage of standing naked in front of the audience.
Not to have that egotistic attitude, like "I'm an artist. Stand on your knees and come to me."
It's now a reasonable thing, I mean
"Look, I'm an artist, and the best way for you to know my work is for me to go to you."
Stage experience, dynamics with the group, with the whole situation.
Tricky breaks here, tricky breaks there, a funky rhythm.
"Wow, she won't make it through the song".
And there she is, on top of everything, I was really amazed and happy to see that.
She's like one more musician in the band.
So these interferences are also part of her singing.
She changes the way she sings depending on what's going on with the band.
Dani is generous with the musicians, she wants to make sure we're comfortable.
So just play it, go for it.
The group is smaller for this DVD, a quartet, so they can play freely.
There's a jazz side, that's always present in Dani's music.
But, at the same time, there's a pop side coming along.
My wish for the piece is that, in every person...
It would bring them to think about what it would be like,
If they looked at their town, and looked into the past.
And in those windows, in all those memories and friends and family...
It was amazing to me that somebody would apply it to their own life,
In a place, you know, as different as you can imagine.
Which is exactly the same feeling, except that in a different country, time and road…
It's something that I care about when writing lyrics.
Telling experiences of mine, that are personal, private,
But in a way that anyone can relate to them.
Mixing a live album is always different from a studio one.
It's a live album, recording live, and whatever is recorded will be at the final tape.
Before the DVD recording, we spent a few months touring.
We played a series of concerts that worked out as rehearsals.
It was great, because we got to be comfortable, and not just worried about playing it right.
It made the process of rehearsing and choosing the songs easier. We already know each other musically.
We were more relaxed when recording. Instead of being tense, we just have a great time.
She carried out a survey, asking the fans where they wanted her to play.
So now we're playing in the countryside of São Paulo, we also went to Minas Gerais.
Right after that, Dani performed in a subway station, which was also successful, a very interesting thing.
And now we're trying to replicate that way of performing music in different locations.
Especially the ones in which the people are already there, passing through.
I believe this DVD is not the end of a cycle.
Although that would be the most natural conclusion.
I believe it's the beginning of a new one.
"Viadutos" (road bridges) is not just the name of the building.
"Viadutos" are connections between people, between their music,
between peoples' lives in the city...
That's what I want my music to do.