Mazgani is the next guest of Lado B in Silves, in a concert scheduled for October 5th, at 21 pm, at Teatro Mascarenhas Gregório.
In the bag, brings the viola and “The Poet's Death”, released a year ago and which has been presented on national stages and with pleasant receptions. «We seek that the concert is not just a replication of what is on the record, but that it is a concert in accordance with the night, with the room, with the mood. Many of the songs have many open solutions, many open spaces and we act intuitively in response to each other and in that sense the concerts are also received in a different way», reveals Shahrya Mazgani to Musical | Sul Informação.
The tour of this album has taken him around the country, with a visit also to London, where he has played to full rooms. Therefore, the same is expected in Silves, to hear what is already the fifth work of the 42-year-old Iranian musician, since the age of 4, living in Portugal, fleeing the Iranian Revolution of 1979.
«We already have some road and we want the album to grow and something to change, altering, even because the songs are living organisms, so to speak, and I think they are better now. I think people feel when musicians are enjoying what they are doing and we do it with a lot of joy and a lot of surrender. It's important that people feel it and that we can offer them the best night possible», confesses the musician.
“The Poet's Death” is the return of the musician from Setúbal to the originals after, in 2015, having released “Lifeboat”, in which he reinterprets some of his favorite composers.
For this new work, he chose Peixe (Ornatos Violeta) as producer and sought to capture the essence of what he was composing. «I tried to do everything in a short time, with few rehearsals and little studio time, in order to capture the essence», something that, he admits, only now, with greater musical maturity, he feels free to do.
In conclusion, this is a work with a different approach from the previous one, other techniques, but where it continues to tell and sing the story in its own way.
It is, however, a record that deserves to be listened to in the “old way”. «It's an album that needs to be listened to calmly, it's stripped down, made of silences, despite having more muscular moments. The album is thought of as a whole, there is a common thread, there is coherence, a line that connects the songs», he says.
On Friday, October 5th, in Silves, Mazgani is accompanied by Vitor Coimbra, on bass, Isac Achega and Manuel Dordio, on drums.
Tickets cost 8,00 euros and can be purchased at the Municipal Archeology Museum of Silves and at the João de Deus House-Museum, in São Bartolomeu de Messines.
The interview can be heard in its entirety in the 78th edition of Musicália, by clicking here.
Mazgani released, last Friday, another single and the video for “The Poet's Death”. As a celebration of the first anniversary, it presents a reinterpretation of the theme “The Faintest Light”, in a duet with British artist Nadine Khouri, who will join the musician on stage for a special show on February 2, at Teatro Aveirense .
Joana Linda, the video's director, presents it like this:
“In The Faintest Light, Mazgani walks alone through the streets of Alvalade, one of the most representative neighborhoods of modern architecture in Lisbon. Evoking an aesthetic associated with the 70s and Jonas Mekas' films, the city's own movement contrasts with the protagonist's loneliness and accentuates the melancholy characteristic of a winter's day, illuminated by the last rays of the sun of a cold late afternoon”.
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