Coming from Brasilia, Moveis Coloniais de Acaju is a big Big Band performing ska with Brazilian and Eastern European influences.They have just released their second album “C_MPL_TE”. Interview below with their saxophonist, Esdras.

Hi Moveis Coloniais de Acaju, what are you up to at the moment?
We are spreading our new album. Be able to play those songs and have a positive answer of the public is being great.

What is Moveis Coloniais de Acaju about, can you introduce yourself to our readers?
We are a band of nine musicians and one producer and we meet to play. We have on economist, biologists, advertiser, designers, journalists, anthropologist and two graduated in music. Slowly, the profession became hobby and the hobby our profession. It exists a great pleasure of being together, and the result of this union cane be felt in our new album, “C_MPL_TE”.

What’s your new release about, future projects?
The new album is about the relation between us and the public, about the composing process which everyone were compositors, nothing belongs just one, and everything can be shared, and also about everyday life.

Our project for the moment is doing concerts and spread our new album. For the moment, this new album is our priority, but in the end of this year we’ll have the XI edition of ‘Moveis Convida’ (Moveis invite), our festival here in Brasilia.

How’s the scene in Brasilia?
It’s quite promising. Brasilia lives very well with the diversity, it’s a characteristic of the city. We have the ‘GoG’ from hip-hop, ‘Elle Oléria’ from Brazilian soul, ‘Lafusa’, ‘Velhos e Usados’, Bois de Gerião’, The Pró, of the Brasilia’s rock scene, ‘Lucy and the Popsonicos’ which are traveling all over the world. There’s also a very good group doing instrumental music, like ‘Trio Cai Dentro’, ‘Ademir Junior’ and others…. Thanks for the diversity!

Places to go to when on holiday in your city?
Go to ‘Beirute’, we recommend also the ‘Kiberovo’.

We are in a difficult time for the music industry: how do you see the future for it?
The musical market is in constantly changes, I think the future is going to be promising. Nowadays is much easier to record an album, to spread, you just have to have a good work and dedicate a few time on the internet, and the album can arrive to people all over the world. It’s not easy, you have the effort, but it’s a lot less restricting than before.

How is internet important for you today and how do you see it evolving in the coming years?
The internet is very important for us, we spread our material in our site, and the now album is available in the Virtual Album of Trama (http://albumvirtual.trama.uol.com.br/). In the future we hope continue playing and being happy, continuing composing, working with the same friends and of course, making enough money to live well.

We are in a world with a lot of different models on the net regarding music (free streaming, digital stores, mobile, collector vinyl etc.): What kind of service should be brought to the table?
I think that each one find the best way to spread your work, and more involvement with these models, better.

As an artist how do you use the web today, what would be the ultimate one stop place for all your digital needs (private and public)?
I say it’s: Album Virtual of Trama and the site of Trama itself. It worth it search them, there’s a lot of good stuff.

What are you currently listening to and recommand?
The Accidental is a very cool bands, Miranda (a friend) showed us a lot of good things in this record process. A lot of things for real! This band I knew by him, and I recommend.

Typical tasty Moveis’s Joke to end?
We film a lot of things in our daily life, and posting on Youtube and on our site, and we have a lot’s of ‘internal’ jokes, the movies prove it.

Sadly they are all in Portuguese…

Visit Moveis Coloniais de Acaju website

VIDEOS:

This one was made in the pre production of the album.
Note the DESESPERADO face that some have: we had to finish two songs
and the next week go to São Paulo to start recording.

This is André (singer) recording. Please watch until the end, it worth it.

These movies were used to “Convida X” recording.
(Convida is the festival that we do every year in Brasilia).