I. Invernália
II. Banzo
III. Papoila
[I. winter memories; II. missing home; III. poppy, the flower]
I adopted this term,
Jet Lag, for some of the sensations I had when I arrived in Portugal, and which still remain after twenty years.
Invernália is the presence of the moments when – here – I met Winter for the first time. It has two sound materials: the first four notes of a Portuguese popular song, which bring me the winter sun; fleeting images of tangos (my friend
Olga Prats debuting Piazzolla in 1986) that is a scar-sound, left by the cold and the brevity in the light of winter days.
Banzo: mega longing for colors, sound, and all that of the Mother Earth that will always accompany this immigrant.
Papoila was just a suggestive word in Pablo Neruda's poetry. Here I found it in the plural, in red flocks of life and light – even today, I am amazed by these verses growing from the earth. Naïve music, wandering hope.
Eli Camargo Júnior, Vila Franca de Xira, Portugal, March 2006
RECORDING (
Lisbon Contemporary Music Group; Rui Carreira – direction; Noble Hall of the National Conservatoire in Lisbon, January 26
th, 2012)
