João da Ilha - "Mares da Indecisão" album (CD)

João da Ilha (Island John) is an Azorean singer-songwriter who makes Atlantic Portuguese inspired music. Born in Terceira Island and settled in Setubal where he was joined by Nuno Carpinteiro (accordion) and Sandro Maduro (bass). Later, Rui Rosado (drums, perc.) and Filipe Silva (mandolin, trumpet) also became accomplices and partners in his journey.

“Mares da Indecisão” began taking an indecisive form, coming from some absolutely unpublished songs and some other older ones, kept deep in the creative drawer, in which I look at the Island, on emotions arising from very personal experiences and on an enormous state of decision: “in-decision ”. The word, by its meaning of hesitation or irresolution, is usually connoted with a more negative sense, but in this album it represents something positive and a transformative consequence of all the time it took to make important decisions, from the choice of songs to the musical direction to follow.

The result was a bolder sound, with more “electric” exploration and more interpretive variety in lyrical terms." (João da Ilha)