Two weeks after presenting the new work in Lisbon, Dino D'Santiago makes a presentation home. “Mundo Nobu” is presented this Saturday, June 9th, at 21 pm, at Cineteatro Louletano, in Loulé.
The way the singer and his new songs were received in the presentation he made in Lisbon lead him to believe that Loulé's show will be special.
«When I was receiving all that love in Lisbon, I just imagined what it would be like in my homeland… I can imagine how people will react and with what themes». But the musician feels that to play at home has two sides: “the responsibility side, for being our home and for the fact that people want to know what you learned the whole time you were away. On the other hand, you know that, even if you fall on stage, the looks will be of love and that gives me security», confides the musician to Musical-Sul Informação.
“Nova Lisboa” and “Nos Funaná” are the only two known songs from the new work, but they are just a sample of what can be seen live in Loulé and heard in “Mundo Nobu”, when it is released after the summer. so much good on a musical level. Sit the seasoning of jazz, from soulmusic, brilliant rhythms and with a lot of truth», reveals Dino, who promises that «what is to come is as tasty or even tastier!» than what has already been known.
Anyone who goes to Loulé, on Saturday, will have the opportunity to learn about seven more themes not yet revealed, but already presented (and tested) in concerts in Santiago, Cape Verde and Lisbon, where the reaction of the public allowed the musician to understand what it could be. the third theme to launch. “Loulé will be decisive in finding out which could be the third face of this trip, of this Mundo Nobu”, he adds.
On stage, the acting will be different from what has been happening. Used to showing up with a big band (13 people, in Expensive Soul, or 10, in the nu soul family), in his own name he has already experimented with different formats and now assumes a new narrative, almost a monologue.
«From me to me and then passing it on to other people. It's going to be me and Paul Seiji, but I'm also going to have my brother on stage. The show will live a lot from the visual part, the message and the words exchanged with people and, of course, the strength of the beat», reveals Dino.
The preparation of “Mundo Nobu” took almost three years and brought together, in addition to the musician, English producer Paul Seiji, New Yorker Rusty Santos and Luso-Angolan Kalaf Epalanga, one of Buraka Som Sistema's mentors.
The four made an exploratory trip to the island of Santiago, where they went to drink the roots of slow funaná. “I feel that the trip made all the difference in the process. It was necessary and noble of them to go and feel the roots and people of the movement they were embracing. We realized that there had to be a radical change in the sound, but we couldn't change the genesis, which is the message and the rhythmic essence and that didn't change. A new movement was created», he confesses.
The musician reveals that he would like to hear, in a while, that there were those who wanted to follow the line of Dino D'Santiago, taking on more Cape Verdean rhythms and giving them a look of our times.
People's positive reactions to the new themes surprised the musician, who has received messages and shares from Argentina, Brazil and several countries in Europe.
Dino D'Santiago expected his music to reach many people and feels that now, finally, a barrier has been broken, managing to broaden the listener base beyond African-rooted music lovers, who «is only a quarter of what it's Dino. When I finally merged that with more urban music, which I explore and is part of my growing up, I felt people's reactions. When you are essentially true and discover your sound, you reach out to more people and they get the message».
Dino d'Santiago was born in Quarteira, the son of Cape Verdean parents, and began to stand out in 2003, in a TV talent contest (Operação Triunfo). Then he became involved in globalized urban music, taking part in various adventures with soul, R&B or hip-hop in there (Dino & The SoulMotion, Expensive Soul or Nu Soul Family).
The show lasts 75 minutes and costs 12 euros or 10 euros for adults over 65 and under 30 (Friend Card applicable). The concert is free for young people who were born in the year 2000 (they are already 18 years old or will become them during 2018).
Nôs Funaná is a tribute to the rhythm that the musician most appreciates and heard the most in his childhood. It's based on an older, slower Funaná, which he transformed with an electronic touch by Paul Seiji (London) and Rusty Santos (New York), who along with Kalaf (Buraka Som Sistema) took to Cape Verde to absorb the music's roots African.
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