Then what differentiate these two works?
MV: Yes, this record despite being 2011's has a very long life, this has to do with the fact that it was intentionally edited in Portugal and has been distributed this year in Europe, USA and Japan is a cd that we are a little tired of playing, but it reach these countries for a short time and so we continued to promote it, although we are already working on the next. The big difference between this new work and "Budja Ba" is how we made this music there. In Budja Ba all the songs went through a very strong filter which were the live concerts and what is there was an attempt to replicate what we did live. In the "down here all is simple" was different, we thought of the songs without the dictatorship of entertaining we tried to replicate in the live concerts, which is why people dance and laugh and sing and we thought of this record as an artistic object more specific more unique. So we were very pleased with this work that we thought worked well and it is recorded two years later, after many songs, many miles later. This only shows a very different stage of our maturity as a group, performers and composers.
The second album was well accepted, but as you mentioned there this big international leap. What it is your success? You think your sound has an almost universal connotation that allows it to cross various audiences regardless of the language or not?
Andre Santos: I think it has to do with it, with the very message of the music is very universal and touch very strong emotions. The question of the language barrier that could prevent our music to be less accepted outside, does not exists, may be was a door opening, but can also be an obstacle. Also our concerts are very interactive and here Michael has this ability to understand and share with the audience and make them feel that this is very close to us and not something far away, but it really is not and in fact also wants to participate. I think people, I believe, they can feel it, the experience of the show. I think all together may partly explain we had concerts in Spain and were also Belgium, Croatia and Green Cape. The reaction turns out to be the same as in Portugal and did not find many differences. The audience engages laughs, dances and says things when they have the need to say something. (Laughs)
JG: One of the curious things is that our audience is very heterogeneous in terms of ages, layers and social tribes; we have all in all the sites where we go. We feel that the only constant in the audience is diversity and we really liked it and of that thing so immaterial that is sounds, it is music that touches people strip themselves of prejudices and come together for an hour in communion.
After the concerts, the public is not surprised when they discover that they are Portuguese? Do not ask if they are from Israel or the Middle East?
MV: Yes, normally abroad it happens. The question they usually do is if we are Jews. And we are not Jews, we have nothing to do with anything Jewish, just we liked this kind of music. It has also happened in Portugal; in a whole concert speaking Portuguese the audience ask us if we were Portuguese. (Laughs).
You already said are already thinking about your third record, then what will add beyond what has already showed?
MV: It's a good question, we still do not know. We are in a slow process, like "down here all is simple", but do not want to repeat it, or do something completely different. So we are in the process of composing new things, researching traditional music for which we can create a new garb and then we will make a selection of those that we thought are better. But at this moment we have no idea what will be the next album. The music has to have the last word.
