{"id":2387,"date":"2019-05-10T13:41:58","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T12:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/old.outra.pt\/?p=2387"},"modified":"2019-06-04T19:29:58","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T18:29:58","slug":"entrevista-a-ricardo-martins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.outra.pt\/en_us\/2019\/05\/entrevista-a-ricardo-martins\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Ricardo Martins"},"content":{"rendered":"

We had the opportunity to chat with Ricardo Martins before his performance at ADAO in February 9th, 2019 about his first solo work, \"Furac\u00e3o\", as well as his past and future journeys in Portuguese and international music.<\/p>\n

Photo courtesy of: Vera Marmelo<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cFurac\u00e3o\u201d is your solo debut, and the songs that make up the album were released one by one for a year by the London label Jeff Records. What was the process like, and what led you to this solo adventure after making music in bands for so many years?<\/strong><\/p>\n

It actually started in 2014, after some improvisational experiments which started here in Barreiro, interestingly enough, after a performance I had here (editor\u2019s note: at OUT.FEST 2009). Afterwards I had the urge to create something on my own, but with so many bands and so much happening it was hard to do. When I came back from Barcelona (where I lived for a few years) I started playing with people here again, I was always making music and I always wanted to create, but sometimes people wouldn\u2019t have as much free time as me, so sometimes I would end up in the studio for hours without sharing those moments of musical creation with others (which is more or less what I do, more than \u2018playing\u2019 \u2013 I never had that approach of playing on my own and practicing, I prefer to rehearse with other people every week). So then I started thinking about making music on my own, though at the same time I wasn\u2019t sure if I would have the discipline to make an album \u2013 I think I\u2019d still be finishing it up now if I hadn\u2019t found this way to \u201ctrick\u201d myself: I\u2019d make a song a month, put them out, and by the end of the year I had a 12 inch \u2013 that\u2019s more or less what happened. The record then took a while longer to be released, but that\u2019s how it happened, more or less. And I ended up discovering other things I like in this solo approach to music making and maybe it showed me I can create music on my own with a discipline I thought I didn\u2019t have.<\/p>\n

How did this association with Jeff come about?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The guys at Jeff are friends of mine, they had this project and I played at some concerts they organized in London, so when I had this idea they liked it and wanted to be involved \u2013 not only by releasing it but also by writing the texts that came out with the songs every month. We became a team there as well, which was what I wanted, to not feel isolated \u2013 even though it was a solo thing I always wanted to work with other people.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ve been making music publicly for 15 years now \u2013 did you see yourself where you are today 15 years ago? What did you imagine the Portuguese music scene would be like?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think I imagined anything\u2026 (laughs) For me that was the time when you want to make music, you want to learn, you want to do more\u2026and I never felt satisfied with anything, I wanted to have more and different bands, explore new musical languages\u2026 That was it for me, there was no objective, but I knew that with the way I was feeling music at the time that I wouldn\u2019t be able to give it up for anything else. But I also thought I\u2019d have two interests going strong at the same time, because I also feel that I can\u2019t just make music, I get too deep inside my head\u2026so I discovered graphic design, and this way I have two interests which balance each other.<\/p>\n

You are or were a part of many great bands in Portugal: Lobster, Adorno, I Had Plans, Cangarra, Jib\u00f3ia, Pop Dell'Arte, Papaya, Bruxas \/ Cobras... Were there any moments with those bands that left a particular impression on you?<\/strong><\/p>\n

There are a lot of moments \u2013 above all I only make music with people I like, friends or people whose work I admire and that I challenge to make something \u2013 it all starts there. The tours were really important to me and I think they taught me a lot, there was a time we were going on two, three tours a year, and that was really demanding\u2026it\u2019s hard to specify a moment or a phase, though. I think the beginning of any project is beautiful, because you\u2019re starting out and discovering things, you have that innocence, you make lots of mistakes\u2026sometimes I miss those errors, looking for something and finding out it\u2019s not there, all of that.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s next for you, musically speaking? Do you intend to make more solo music in the future?<\/strong><\/p>\n

There\u2019s a 7 inch coming out now, maybe in May, and it\u2019s supposed to be the opposite of Furac\u00e3o, which was based on drums and idiophones. I wasn\u2019t using everything I\u2019m using now \u2013 pitch shifters, delays, modular and regular synths\u2026I\u2019ve been feeling the urge to follow that path. That\u2019s what\u2019s coming now \u2013 it\u2019s all written, all I need is to record it. I\u2019m also writing a piece for eight drum sets, which will be performed at a festival in June. Writing for eight performers was also something I\u2019ve been meaning to do for a long time, and I hope more projects like that come along, it\u2019s something that gets me really excited. And I wanted to have more solo projects, explore things I\u2019m not that comfortable with\u2026.I think that working on your own is sort of like that, for me it\u2019s a panic inducing experience, when I\u2019m playing with a band I feel at ease, you\u2019re in the back, you\u2019re protected in a sense, but when I play solo it\u2019s scary, I don\u2019t sleep the days before a concert\u2026I\u2019ve got the full package. But on the other hand when it\u2019s over you feel like you overcame or conquered something that\u2019s yours alone\u2026even though I never want to stop playing in bands, I want to keep on doing more and different stuff. I was talking to a friend of mine that I played with in Barcelona and he told me something which I thought was an exaggeration, but which was: \u201cThe only thing worse than practicing and playing on your own is practicing and playing with other people\u201d, and even though I wouldn\u2019t put it like that I feel that while playing with others is some kind of \u2018monster\u2019, because you have tons of things to understand and learn, it\u2019s a demanding process of sharing, and playing solo is a different kind of \u2018monster\u2019, it\u2019s you in your head. It\u2019s a good struggle but a struggle nonetheless.<\/p>\n

You talked about using synthesizers in your next record \u2013 how do you integrate them, as well as other sound sources, with your work as a drummer?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019m always playing the drums, but I can be playing other things at the same time. This all began with me using an SP404 a sampler that I used to enter a different sound world while I played, to play an interesting sub-bass sound or anything else, and that helped me thing differently, play more and experiment with keys. I really think it\u2019s time to try to do that more and more, and these solo concerts are also good for that, for trying out new things, they end up being a laboratory of sorts. I\u2019m more interested in going through that experienced than in presenting something that super polished and finished. I\u2019ve been having that urge to explore, and there\u2019s something worth noting \u2013 I started making music for theatre two, three years ago, and at first I usually started with the drums, but then I started producing recorded music that would later be triggered live, and that had plenty of synthesizers, and arrangements for other instruments besides the drums, so I was already in the mood to explore that in my solo music.<\/p>\n

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