Pedro D-Lita, founder of our label, decided to use his time in social isolation to produce and ended up rescuing a track from Stereo Maracanã, a project led by him and Mauricio Pacheco in the early 2000s. “Combatente” ended up becoming a video clip produced in partnership with videomaker Felipe Chaves. We exchanged an idea with him about the track and new projects. Check it out!
Where did the idea for the video come from?
I released this track on the album of the band Stereo Maracanã in 2002 in which I sign all the tracks of the album as lyricist and the music producer is Mauricio Pacheco, who is currently the guitar player and produces Vanessa da Matta. The album was very well produced and praised at the time. As I really liked this track and she had never had a video, I thought it would be a good time for that.
We shot in Brixton, which besides being an effervescent neighborhood and also known for its Jamaican community and which today is undergoing a heavy process of gentrification, but which in a way is a family neighborhood. I have friends living in the area and I have already had memorable parties and shows like O Rappa, Marcelo D2 and Planet Hemp at Electric Brixton, which even appears in one of the scenes in the video.
And how was the production process?
Felipe and I, the director of the clip, lived in Paris and happened to be in the same besieged neighborhood, since the borders were closed. We looked at the location on the GPS and realized that it was about 600 meters away. So we set up this meeting the day I went to do my weekly shopping.
We recorded on two Wednesdays and the edition Chaves made a version on the same day of the first recording and then we were “tuning the guitar”.
How’s about this social isolation period going around?
The UK was two weeks late compared to other European countries to take the necessary measures, so it was kind of tense around here, in addition to all the stress that ended up becoming taking all preventive measures.
Any new projects?
I want to release soon other unpublished songs that I’ve been making in the last years for an album that I’ve been calling “Exodus Beats” and that has collaborations from partners like Marcelo Yuka, André Sachs, Aleh Ferreira, Jam Da Silva, Jean-Jacques, Marcelo Lobato , LC Varella, Jansen Santana Elias Blacklas, Freelion among others.