I notice in the different tracks various musical influences, yet because you chose a sound more electronic rather than a band, why?
SL: I like the electronic sounds. From a long ago it attracts me and still more with soul. While appreciating hearing instruments, like this kind of music for dancing, to unwind, to feel emotions. I started dancing at electronic music parties and when I wrote some of some of the songs I started with musicians from this area. I believe that is the future, rather than the more classical and instrumental sounds.
However, you have a classical music education, begun to sing in a gospel church choir. How does a Portuguese Irish girl, born in Canada, ends up in a gospel choir?
SL: I always had a great connection with music that has a lot of nostalgia, which is a strength, is almost sad and gospel allows people to externalize everything in life that is difficult. I like the voices and the harmonies are beautiful, thought I was in a choir like because it was easier for me to sing my songs and I also have great empathy with such sentiments. When you're feeling sad is normal to transports it to music.
In "messages from the future" there is a second sense, on the one hand the demand for the future and the other?
SL: There is something of love, but in another sense it is the love for myself, let me say that I am well, despite being profoundly sad. There is a track, "sarinha" is a song I wrote about me, about my childhood, I was always shy and it was hard to choose music because my parents do not understand my choice. For a while I feared opting for music. I even had difficulty accepting who I am and what I wanted to be and I used this album as a way to give me strength for the future. Overcame some self-censorship in the process.
And now you have come to Madeira to know your roots maternal and also to create, how this experience has influenced the music you do?
SL: Since I am here I have tried to explore the feelings that I have in the deepest of my heart. I cannot explain in words. What I notice is that I'm more emotional, all the time, even when I wake up, I feel very happy, but there is also a certain sadness. I do not know yet, but I think I came here to change my life. I talk a lot of nostalgia, there's a part of me that is growing and I feel very alive, I like the people, the island and me.
After this passage by the island, then you intend to go to Lisbon to mix and improve some of the songs.
SL: Right, with Felipe Campos who has extensive experience with instruments and music production. In Madeira, for the first time I have done alone all the composition, the voice and the music through the computer. Everything will be worked with him I can do better. It is also good in the sense that you can always hear another opinion.
Will you continue to do "future soul" or you'll change the sound?
SL: I think that this new work is perhaps electronic pop and gloomy at the same time. It is very difficult to explain.
What changed from the image you idealized through the memories of your mother and your grandmother and what you see now ? It's too big a difference?
SL: This is the first time anything is new, but I feel a connection with the food, the flowers, with plants and the habits. My mother and my grandmother always have many flowers in Canada, more in summer than in winter. There is also a greater sense of family meetings where you can eat, drink and gather all. I know that side and it is not strange. They always spoke with great emotion of the island, my grandmother more than my mother who left here with only 9 years old. She said that she ate wild blackberries and figs from the trees when dating with my grandfather and I thought it was an island of fantasy. Now, I'm no longer a child, I see everything, taste the flavors, make new friends and I think that is magical and I understand better my grandmother. It is still different, because I'm alone, but I always had this fantasy to come here, because I had all this imagery in the photos scattered around the house.
