The Algarvian Filipe Cabeçadas will show upnt release his debut album “20.1” next Saturday, November 24th, at 22 pm, at Club Farense.
“This was by no means the album I was hoping to make. The songs were emerging, very much at their own pace. When I realized I had material for the album and I thought I should embrace this challenge that life was proposing to me» confessed Filipe Cabeçadas to Musical - Sul Informação.
In total, there are eight songs written over a period of a year and a half that the musician put together in “20.1”, the name he chose for his first work in his own name.
20 is a celebration number that brings together adventures and experiences that fill a musical path. Number 1 defines a new time within these 20 – a new approach, a new challenge. “20.1 is a new version of the next 20 years. As if the next 20 years started now», reveals the musician.
Filipe Cabeçadas' path began in mid 1997. He studied at the Conservatory of Music in Faro, forming Mindlock, in a rebellious phase where he composed about inner revolt and nonconformism, to the sound of metal.
Later, he went through independent rock with Melomeno-Rítmica, oLUDO e os Nome.
«This is a 20-year journey that now starts again and it would make no sense to do this work without some pieces that were important in this 20 years, so inviting special musicians that are around us is mandatory», explains the singer.
Daniel Kemish, Francisco Aragão, Diogo Piçarra, Nuno Campos, João Ruano, Vítor Bacalhau, Tércio Freire, Rui Santos, Vyara Tultukova, Kiril Hristov and Stoimen Peev are the guest musicians for the debut album, which, for Filipe Cabeçadas, shows the quality of artists in the Algarve.
«There are a series of encounters and re-encounters that we do along this route. The Algarve is not that big and has the advantage of getting to know each other. We combine business with pleasure, we play together and build something stronger, with more solid foundations. We need these bases, so that we can later assert ourselves», highlights the musician who adds: «only with a united local community can we export everything that is good in the Algarve».
Filipe Cabeçadas composed the music and lyrics of his themes, which he gave voice to. He recorded the guitar, bass and drums, while the keyboards and synthesizers were half-recorded with Francisco Aragão, his partner in Diogo Piçarra's support band. The recording of the album was in charge of Rui Santos at Boxer Studios (S. Brás de Alportel) and Francisco Aragão at MenteCapta studios (Faro).
“Bring Back The Man” and “Hell With You” appear as the “20.1” presentation card, but “1981” is the last song that serves as an invitation to the debut album.
The date goes back to the past, but Filipe Cabeçadas says the song is not about nostalgia. The video of the song, this one, is, a little, a return to the origins.
«It wasn't supposed to be… it ended up becoming. 1981 is my birth year. The video was the idea of Henrique Prudencio, the director, to try to make a trip to the past. I didn't want nostalgia, because it's a little scary, it gives the idea that we're getting old. We ended up making a compromise. He was a master in this balance between a good mood, which I wanted to show, and some reflection on the past», he concluded.
Filipe Cabeçadas also has a concert, from this new album, scheduled for November 29, at 21 pm, at TEMPO – Teatro Municipal de Portimão.
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