ONDE, QUANDO, COMO, PORQUÊ, CANTAMOS PESSOAS VIVAS

Onde, Quando, Como, Porque, Cantamos Pessoas Vivas is Quarteto 1111's third and latest studio album, the piece where they have found and concretized the sound they were looking for.

The song begins with a growing and interesting riff whose style is a curious and intriguing miscellany between hard and dark rock. The instruments are added little by little and experienced melodies are landing on it in order to have their own atmosphere by the time the vocals come in. The vocalist presents a warm but passionate voice, with those high notes that are sung with fervor and chest voice (similar to those of the SBB vocalist). Somewhat flashy percussion, which in parts wants to take off. The organ arrangements give it an impression somewhere between melancholic and epic.

The song looks for the popular sound by means of rhythm breaks. This does not mean that they use them for it, but this first part is shaped and structured through divisions that contribute to the catch that the band is looking for. A lot of Premiata Forneria Marconi influence, specifically highlighted in the keyboards and acoustic guitar. The lyrics detach from the melody several times, getting out of the habit of balancing the sense between what is said and what is played. There are many instrumental fragments that are repeated a lot and feel like filler, lowering the quality a bit and slightly deteriorating the "epic song" stamp that the band seeks to achieve. It is also true that the energy is successfully charged as the song goes on. The instruments never manage to get along properly with the vocals in my opinion, and this is noticeable when there are no vocals and the successive musical beats invade the listener's ear infecting it with euphoria and immersing it in an ocean of [guitar] solos, an effect that does not succeed with the separate voice as the protagonist.

Side 2 continues synchronized with side 1 as it is the same song, and after a few seconds its aura evolves through airy sounds and the song moves on to inhabit a new space of temper where there has just been a great clash of energies. It reminded me of the "peace after the war" musical concept found on albums like "Halloween" or "Relayer", although in a quite different context. A much more European sound, and here the vocals do make a beautiful connection! Something that fills a bit that lack of musical coherence of the first part.

The sound is at times symphonic and at times melodic (sometimes more melodic than progressive!). It decreases a little the hierarchy of the album the stretching of some parts in order to reach a time close to half an hour. This song works quite well as a song, but not so much as a whole album. They had a good idea and forced it to a time that does not correspond to it, and this is, in my humble opinion as an enthusiast without wanting to correct some people's own art, a serious mistake. Still, the Portuguese have managed to create a melodic and optimistic epic quite decent and worthy to listen to again one or more times.

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