Singer Emmy Curl will be in Algarve, this Saturday, December 2nd, to close the program of the Autumn evenings, in a concert at Casa do Povo in Santo Estêvão, at 22 pm. On the same trip to the Algarve region, Emmy Curl has two more performances scheduled: one at FNAC de Lagos, also this Saturday, at 00:15, and another at FNAC da Guia, on Sunday, December 00, at 3:17.
«I'm going to take some songs on the new album and play some songs that were on the previous ones. I take mine power solo playing with backing tracks (pre-recorded instruments), a bit like I do in the studio, since I produce my themes», reveals Catarina Miranda, the “girl” who gives body and voice to Emmy Curl, when Musical|Sul Informação.
The artist has already performed on stage in various formats: guitar and voice, with band, in a more intimate format – where she uses only the pedal of loop and that it presents in smaller concerts with the FNACs -, and the format backing tracks, which he will perform in Santo Estêvão, in Tavira, and which allows him to show the most fulfilled songs.
“I think it's a bit difficult when it's just me and the guitar, because it's not good to show people what my music really is. So, I bring a system where people can really listen to the songs in a more complete way», adds Catarina.
In the suitcase he brings the keyboard, the guitar and the voice, which is divided between Portuguese and English, both from the previous album and from the new themes. «It will be a beautiful experience», he guarantees.
In a way of unburdening herself, Catarina Miranda laments the phenomenon of today, where there seems to be not much money to pay musicians and where live music is exchanged for DJs, or things for simpler things. Furthermore, the public is not used to paying to see concerts “preferring those already paid for by the Chambers”.
Singers can no longer have musicians to play with them (or receive very little) and, to resolve this issue, «we are adopting ways of playing live alone, with digital systems, in which we play all instruments and become self-taught and performers of the show».
In 2015 Emmy Curl released “Navia”, her first album, after several promising EPs – Ether (2007), Birds Among the Lines (2010), Origins (2012) and Cherry Luna (2013), which made her known. to the public.
In the last two years it hasn't been stopped, quite the contrary, time has been one of transformation and constant work on the new record.
“I've been in production, I'm working on the album almost every day. I moved from Aveiro to Porto a year and a half ago and it was a great cultural, artistic and personal transformation. There was a lot that I evolved on. It makes all the difference to change city and air, where there is more culture. This made me rethink a lot of things», reveals Catarina Miranda.
The creative impulse and personal growth challenged many of the things I was doing and the album underwent many transformations. «It started one thing and is being finished in another way, these two years were a very intense school of life», confides the artist.
The change of city and experiences delayed the release of the new work, scheduled for release in March, and the direction it took, with the experiences lived in Porto being reflected in the exercise of composition.
«There were days when we arrived at the house of a jam session jazz with solo improvisations and this was recorded, it was almost a puzzle where I was adding pieces of what I was learning these years and I was completing. I'm not in a hurry to release the album, because I wanted to release what I could do best», reveals the composer.
Catarina Miranda began the year as part of the Portuguese delegation that headed to Eurosonic in Holland, in a double register – either as Emmy Curl or as part of Papercutz, a project where she collaborated again with Bruno Miguel from Porto – an experience that highlights «the socializing with people and contacts with musicians, sharing ideas and the possibility of attending the concerts of others».
The trip to Holland also served to realize that, in Portugal, «we don't support artists like there, where local musicians are placed as headliners, after the Portuguese, even though it's nothing special».
Catarina Miranda states that it is important to support and encourage local musicians, the lack of this self-esteem makes her not take so much risk. “If there was more self-esteem, many would try an international career and take Portugal's name further, not just with Fado”, he concludes.
Sandstorm is a song that appeared on a train journey and appeals to the feminine of the land. It was written after Catarina left a relationship and, for the first time, was living alone, without her family, without her boyfriend, in a different city. An existential crisis made her think about what it means to be a woman, which is reflected in the lyrics about female independence and emancipation.
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