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What is a song for?
People saw André and Maurício as two very different people.
And Os Mulheres Negras as third soul.
"The Black Women": two lily-white men...
With the overcoats and the hats... They are two mad scientists in their laboratory.
You can picture then with a question mark over their heads, going around...
Put everything under suspicion.
Popular music ranges from Tião Carreiro y Pardinho
to Beatles, to Elvis Presley,
to the cheesy singer with an insight, it doesn´t matter.
This popular song is born of something your mother sang to you,
that your grandmother sang for her
and that your great grandfather played while doing something
and that some immigrant ancestor played in the ship
and before this, in the Middle Ages someone played.
Legend goes that we gave 600 gigs in one year.
In a Mulheres Negras's show anything can happen.
I loved the characters. They were like...
Buster Keaton style.
Comedians that don't laugh. They tried not to laugh.
We put all the words in the world into a computer
and there was a software that gave the three most important words.
We put the three of them togheter.
It was "the", "women" and "black".
With not very high-end technological resources,
but with an incredible creativity, they managed
to create the sound of a whole band.
Any arrangement by the Mulheres if you play a guessing game
you´re sure to find 10 references by song.
They liked black music, italian music, pop music,
Beatles, Rolling Stones, as well as Pixinguinha.
It´s all in there!
The Mulheres Negras motto: everything is good music.
And everything is an influence.
End of story.
I think this is the nexus.
When we first met, we must have made it clear for each other.
If, living my life I miss someone
nostalgia picks me up
it comes telling me put and end to misery
there´s so much technology
microwave, aeroplane Twitter, Facebook
fulfil your duty
calm down a bleeding heart don't just get us addicted
with a show of tenderness or pieces of memories
someone's voice in a moment, you know?
If a lightning interrupts noisy and casually
these distant connections
may the fire from a volcano spit out an explanation
that might enlighten slowly
that it´s such a varied world
so much exclamation that we don't notice it is constant
that a triviality creates a gigantic song
get into a radio station and sing
THAT´S WHAT MUSIC IS FOR A STORY OF "OS MULHERES NEGRAS"