Miguel Calhaz - Contra Cantos, Vol. 1 (2024) Hi Res

A man and his instrument defy the gravity of the times, reviving messages from a past that wants to make itself present... The legacy of Zeca, Fausto, Adriano, Sérgio and José Mário comes to light in this incandescent way of putting them to music. Sixteen songs recorded as if it were just another live performance, as if another stage was going up.

The songs of the contrary, of the protest made of love and vice versa, unfold in this work that aims to honor those who fought so hard for their legacy to reach us: those who listen to them, who reinvent them, who rediscover them, who they share and teach, spreading the valuable seed in lands where they try to combat the synthetic aridity that threatens to invade the fields of fertile thought. Like a sensory engine, voice and bass work side by side, drawing on both resources that aim to achieve a kind of artisanal, subjective and imperfect intelligence - just like everything that is beautiful, or not; full of trials and errors, just like History.