8/15/2023 0 Comments Nico project findings![]() Later, once we heard the recording we were excited about and it just felt right to release it online. It was a very spontaneous decision. We did it all in a day and it all felt very easy and smooth. The recording happened at First Light with Michelle LaCour. I had the help of my talented friends Steve Maloney, Tim Baker, Adam Hogan, and Mary Beth Waldram, and we organized the songs and the instrumentation very smoothly. The plan was to release a couple videos only and so I initially was just inviting some friends to play with me and try out some songs, two originals, Warrior and Here, Home, and one cover, Wild Mountain Thyme. There was absolutely no pressure to make an EP out of it. This EP came about as a result of the final project for my art residency with Lawnya Vawnya. Yes, we did that for my latest release Live at First Light. What was that like? Were there any reasons to take that unique approach? We learned that you recorded an album of yours from a live session with a band, which is quite different from the typical process of recording separate tracks in a studio. I would say being patient is a good skill to have, but also being curious. To me it isn’t about any particular process, it is more to do with expression, creativity, instinct, and what is surrounding me at that moment that inspires and allows me to write and compose. ![]() I normally start a song with a melody, then explore some words and simple chords and will play that non-stop almost in a trance, it feels very meditative. I find my way around hearing and exploring usually in combinations that don’t stick to any particular academic way. ![]() What is your creative process like? What elements do you feel are important to consider when making music? Gal Costa, Milton Nascimento, Jorge Ben, and the whole Tropicália Era really changed my perspective into music. It really fascinated me how the music in Brazil could give so much melody and simplicity to the heaviest, darkest lyrics. I found myself really curious with the sounds and culture that came with it. When I started to write my own music I was in a phase of discovering Brazilian music introduced by a great friend of mine. Later in my early teenage years I was super-influenced by what my older sister was listening to and was introduced to Mazzy Star, Jeff Bucley, Sade, and Coldplay. Loved experimenting with my singing and remember being a kid and impersonating Celine Dion, Pavarotti, Cher, Nina Simone, Joss Stone, Cesária Évora, Françoise Hardy… to my family. Formed my first cover band called Rose in high school and sang in other bands too around that time. What first got you into music? Who was your first inspiration?įrom a very young age I sang in choirs, small music festivals and musicals in my town. Being solo in a new city definitely made me nostalgic and longing for my past, I was in my early 20s and It was sometime around then when I picked up the guitar and began writing my own music. In high school I studied Arts, then Design in University in Lisbon and in Austria, and the move to Toronto happened right after graduating in 2014. Since I remember myself I knew I would follow an artistic career, I found myself engaged in something related to music or visual arts very regularly. The heritage of being from an immigrant family has always been present, exciting and colorful when it comes to understanding different places, the cultures within, and the experiences they bring out. ![]() Grew up in a small town of Bombarral and only returned to Canada for the first time when I was 17 on a family trip for a couple weeks. I do not recollect anything from Toronto then. I was born in Toronto, daughter of Portuguese parents, and moved to Portugal when I was two years old.
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