New music for the weekend: St. Vincent’s cry, Dino D’Santiago’s Brazil and Deslandes & Tinoco’s musical

St. Vincent’s seventh album, “All Born Screaming”, is one of this Friday’s highlights, when it comes to new albums. The successor to “Daddy’s Home”, from 2021, features the participation of several guests, such as Dave Grohl, Cate Le Bon and Stella Mozgawa, from Warpaint, among others.

This is the first album that Annie Clark, St. Vincent’s ‘civilian’ name, has produced in its entirety. Regarding the sound of the work, the North American described it as “taking a long walk through the forest, alone, in search of the messages from my heart”.

Also releasing his seventh full-length album this Friday is Iron & Wine, a singer-songwriter from the United States who, in “Light Verse”, recruited several musicians to accompany him. Fiona Apple is a special guest on Sam Beam’s new album, voicing the song ‘All In Good Time’.

“Hyperdrama” is the title of the new album by French duo Justice. The band’s first album in seven years, the successor to “Woman” was presented by the singles ‘One Night/All Night’, with Tame Impala, and ‘Saturnine’, with Miguel’s voice.

Also back are the Pet Shop Boys. The veterans of electronic pop made in England have just released “Nonetheless”, an album produced by James Ford and the band’s first since “Hotospot”, from 2020. ‘Loneliness’ served as the calling card for an album with which the Pet Shop Boys they want to “celebrate the unique and varied emotions that make us human”.

In Portugal, “A Madrugada que eu Esperava” was released this week, an album by Bárbara Tinoco and Carolina Deslandes, inspired by the musical show of the same name, which both singer-songwriters performed at Teatro Maria Matos, in Lisbon. In May, the play is presented in Porto.

The album, which is described as “an ode to freedom”, features Sérgio Godinho, Paulo de Carvalho, Luísa Sobral, Filipe Melo, Salvador Sobral, Rita Rocha, Tatanka, Tiago Nogueira, Buba Espinho and Diogo Branco.

The lineup includes the 13 songs presented in the show, and four that ended up being left out – some are sung by Bárbara Tinoco It is Carolina Deslandes and others by the guests.

Also this week, Dino d’Santiago presented a new song. ‘Oh Bahia’ is a duero with Brazilian singer-songwriter Luedji Luna, which incorporates “avant-garde influences from African music and its diasporas, from Afro-beat to Amapiano, and from soul to jazz.

Described as “an ode to the Black Atlantic, celebrating it as a territory that unites Cape Verde and Brazil”, ‘Oh Bahia’ addresses the themes of love, belonging and the search for the beauty that reveals itself when we open ourselves to the world.

“Bahia and Cape Verde are historically linked, we are a beautiful people, a musical people, a black people. This song is another magic produced by the diaspora. It’s an honor to be part of it”, says Luedji Luna.

The theme was produced by Seiji and Nosa Apollo and has the collaboration of Kalaf Epalanga.

In turn, and after debuting the song at Sérgio Godinho’s concerts in the coliseums of Lisbon and Porto, A Garota Não presented a studio version of ‘Diga 33’, a theme that was created based on 33 song titles by the man of ‘ High tide’.

On Instagram, the singer-songwriter from Setúbal wrote: “They asked me what Freedom meant to me. (…) Rivers and waves came out of my eyes, I remembered some books. Then I noticed that there are other margins of freedom: living without debt, spreading guilt and remorse in the sun, stopping thinking that we could have done better. Sometimes we could. Most of the time no.”

“For my part, I chose this April 25th to be the day of release of the song I wrote as a tribute to Sérgio Godinho. I borrowed 33 titles, paths were redefined, relatives of feelings joined together. If Freedom is the call, let us never change the subject”, concluded Cátia Oliveira, aka A Garota Não, who this Friday he performs at the Cineteatro D. João V, in Amadora, where he will receive the José Afonso Prize.

Also now available is “Prenda Minha”, an album that brings together António Zambujo and the Brazilian Yamandu Costa. In this work, the musicians present original compositions, but also versions of themes by Chico Buarque, José Carlos Ary dos Santos or Tom Jobim, among others.

“Prenda Minha” records for posterity a live partnership that, since 2022, has sold out several venues in Brazil and Portugal, also passing through Spain, France and Serbia.

‘Prenda Minha’ is also the title of the work’s first single: it is an original song by Yamandu Costa and Paulo César Pinheiro.