Barbara Eugenia is a romantic and tropical psychedelic singer, as she defines herself. Her albums are reflective of the various stages of her life and once again it is clear in his latest work, "frou frou".
I wanted to start talking about your first work, the "journal of bad", it's been five years in 2010, looking back how do you perceive this album?
Bárbara Eugénia: I really like my first record. I think I learned to like it over time.
Because?
BE: We have a tendency, who does album has some phases of disliking, we find it bad, to find it good, new and bad again. Today I have a deep respect for my first record, I think it is very good, because I could do it at that time and ends up being a good debut work. I'm very proud of it.
The name, why "journal of bad"?
BE: It was the name of an email I wrote, because I was in Rio de Janeiro and went to live in São Paulo, I have many friends who live outside Brazil and at the time was feeling the need to express myself instead of a "hi all good? I'm well and everything worked out". But anyway, I created this email to a group of friends which included everything from a more literary form, in a more poetic way, then I dubbed journal of bad, because it's my nickname for my oldest friends, I was always nagging and boring (laughs). It's my diary, bad, so when I made my first record I thought was very valid, just name it that way, because it was my life at that time.
With regard to your second work, there was a jump? What do you think changed?
BE: It changed a lot. Became more colorful, it can be noted in the actual cover, which was red and black in the first EP and this second work is multicolored, this is a more solar record. I think it also has to do with the phases of my life, I was at peace with myself, with what I was living and this is reflected in this album.
It is curious to say it, because many of these songs have a nostalgic tone in it, are love songs and has a lot of influence of the 70s.
BE: Yes, a lot.
It was music that listen, or your parents listened?
BE: Of course it was music that my parents listened and still hear it, but it's the music I like the most, is a major influence this soound of the 60s and 70s.
But from what I read is considered a tacky style of music.
BE: No, tacky is from Brazil, a certain type of romantic music that existed in the world, but in our country had the name of tacky. I like rock and roll, psychedelic and romantic covering all ways of being a rocker of that time, from the craziest to the fluffy romantic.
Some define your music as the new contemporary music of Brazil. You setback yourself in this kind of setting?
BE: I've been stuck in so many labels that I've forgotten. I say I do Brazilian psychedelic music, romantic and tropical.
You already stilts to sing some songs from new album. Tell me about it. What is the thread of this album?
BE: The thread of my drive line is fun. I think we are all very serious and is a very boring world, the world is very, very conservative. We live in a horrific global dictatorship and I think we have to give a little laugh and dance the problems.
Even your voice is lighter? Because you always have that nostalgic tone.
BE: I no longer know, I cannot judge. I'm freer.
In terms of composition?
BE: More free as well.
What has changed?
BE: I'm more unbridled, wanting to take a laugh on problems, rather than going deep, rather than stand the pain. This is very boring life, we need to have fun and dance more. The world is almost unbearable. We must live more in love, I'm trying to bring more of this together with joy.
So we went from your alter-ego bad for someone different.
BE: It's another thing, my new album is called "frou frou" frou frou is da da.
Are the various growth phases of your life?
BE: Yeah, totally. I'm about to became 35 years old and I am another Bárbara Eugénia.
And Bárbara Eugénia how does a musician like you who is not in the main stream in Brazil?
BE: It's hard to live music. I am also a translator. I do not know what leads someone to become more pumped, I know it's hard but nevertheless, there is a hard core of composers friends, Brazilian artists who are very integrated like Tata airplane, Peripane, Anelis Assunção, Andreia Dias and we are very attached to our music. We do not get so well, do not get the exposure we need to live from music, but we face the whole world together and we invent and create opportunities and make new joint projects and in Brazil people have to wallow in some way .
That is why you have been living to São Paulo? There are more opportunities?
BE: No, I went to São Paulo, because I was divorce. Nor was a singer.
This city has a great cultural movement.
BE: Yes, everyone thinks so, but I was not a singer when I moved to São Paulo.
But back to your friends musicians and the fact that they are a creative core, this is also because you do not fit the movement Tropicália?
BE: No, no, the tropicália totally we fit, we love this style, but not in Brazil's main stream music now, which has nothing to do with tropicália or bossa nova, or more traditional things, or even avant-garde. The music of Brazil is another, which has nothing to do with us.
In parallel with this you have a new project?
BE: Yes, I have. I will record an album with Tata airplane for the year to come.
Are you participate only with your voice or also compose?
BE: This is our record, as the “Aurora" is my record with the Chancas. This work is a album composed by two, it will be beautiful and we will come to Portugal surely to make a beautiful tour.
