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26/11/2014

a Jigsaw lançam "No True Magic"

Há algum tempo que não falávamos de A Jigsaw mas por bons motivos.
A banda esteve em preparação do seu novo trabalho No True Magic.

Este trabalho baseia-se na expressão “willing suspension of disbelief”, do poeta e filósofo Samuel Taylor Coleridge que, na literatura, permite ao leitor a suspensão do julgamento da não-aceitação de uma determinada narrativa.
No entanto, os A Jigsaw vão recorrer a ela para encarar a mortalidade, a justificação da manutenção das nossas crenças aliviadas por essa inevitabilidade, fazendo uma comparação com a magia, quando o processo do truque é explicado deixa de ser magia para se tornar ilusionismo.
Até ao fim todos nós acreditamos na promessa de milagres – ou no milagre da imortalidade e No True Magic vai focar-se na aceitação dos termos da nossa mortalidade.

Nunca fugindo das suas raízes folk e blues, baseando-se na literatura e num disco com um conceito, neste caso “a imortalidade”.

No entanto, este disco conta com algumas novidades como, por exemplo, a cantora norte-americana Carla Torgerson que partilha assim a música Black Jewelled Moon.

23/12/2012

themed week // a Jigsaw, Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!

a Jigsaw are a Portuguese indie folk band who's career started in 1999, composed by three talented multi-instrumentalists: João RuiSusana Ribeiro and Jorri
With one EP From Underskin (2004) and three albums Letters From The Boatman (2007), Like The Wolf 2009) with a special edition released a year after and Drunken Sailors & Happy Pirates (2011).
Read more about them here and here.

Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! - being usually shorted for Let It Snow! -, was composed in 1945 by Jule Styne and its lyrics by Sammy Cahn.
As many other songs associated with Christmas, and although it's highly associated with this season, it never mentions this holiday being originally thought as a love song.

Last year, we chose Mika's unreleased version - check it here.

This year, the Portuguese band recorded this version to the Christmas compilation Feliz Natal 2012 of Liga dos Pequeninos.
The band explained everything on their facebook page - read here.

"When we finally kiss goodnight
How I'll hate going out in the storm
But if you'll really hold me tight
All the way home I'll be warm"

04/07/2012

Interview // With a Jigsaw

A few days ago, we met two of the members of the Portuguese indie folk band a Jigsaw, João Rui and Jorri.

Susana Ribeiro is the other missing member, being part of an extremely kind and talented band.
With quite a career and having a remarkable international career, they've released 5 works between albums and EPs. Their last work is the amazing Drunken Sailors & Happy Pirates.

Talking about their inspiration, instruments, tours and fans, the result is a really relaxed and revealing interview.
Check our previous posts here and here.





[Special thanks to a Jigsaw, especially João Rui and Jorri, for being so kind and honest and to Raquel Lains for everything]

18/05/2012

a Jigsaw, Even You

The Portuguese band a Jigsaw - composed by João Rui, Susana Ribeiro and Jorri - recently came from a European tour - including Holland, Switzerland, Germany and France.
Now, a Portuguese tour is coming starting today in Coimbra, check the other dates below:
May 19 - Festival Tonalidades, Espinho
May 24 - Espaço SOU, Lisbon
May 26 - Lugar do Capitão, Viseu
June 02 - Centro de Artes do Tejo, Vila Velha de Ródão
June 09 - Beilão Bar - Ponte da Barca
June 28 - Pax Júlia, Beja
After their return, they've announced a new single - with a very strong characteristic lyrics, Even You is the next single taken from their third album Drunken Sailors & Happy Pirates, released in 2011 that was re-released this year.

The video was directed by Nuno Dias. According with the director, the main concern was to create a video that would stand out in any way so he came with the idea of a narrative video, without having a band playing or singing the song - this became a challenge because the band had to be actors.

He created a story influenced by the song's lyrics, of someone that was betrayed and swore revenge.
The main character is interpreted by João Rui, being the anti-hero because "Even You..." it was meant to him, he is the one that the revenger is talking about.
Nuno Dias revealed this a Jigsaw video has a "more cinematographic, more fictional context, this is the way I feel about their amazing music that they do, extremely cinematic and visual."

You can read a bit more about this incredible band here.

"There is a price on my head, of silver & gold
Bring forth your greed, I’ll double what you need
But your fate will lay in the cross as soon as I am free
There’s just so much that I’ll forgive"

19/03/2012

a Jigsaw, Crow Covered Tree

a Jigsaw are a Portuguese indie folk band who's career started in 1999, composed by three talented multi-instrumentalists: João Rui, Susana Ribeiro and Jorri.
The band's name came from a song Jigsaw You from the Belgian band dEUS.
They were considered by the French magazine Les Inrockuptibles! as one of the MUST band to follow in 2012 and the Dutch magazine Heaven considered them to be one of the most interesting and curious European Indie Folks bands.

Their first work was an EP From Underskin in 2004. In 2007 the band released their debut album Letters From The Boatman, being very well received by Portuguese radios and becoming the Revelation Band of that same year.

In 2009 a Jigsaw released Like The Wolf that deserved a deluxe edition on the following year. Like The Wolf is a full album, rich in instruments and talented people. The duet Return To Me between João Rui and the American Becky Lee Walters received a honorable mention on the International Songwriting Competition 2009, having Robert Smith and Tom Waits has part of the judges.

Drunken Sailors & Happy Pirates their third album was released in 2011. In 2012 they saw a second edition of the album being released - coinciding with a Jigsaw's Iberian tour starting in February.
The album has been very well received by critics so far, confirming the band's talent and capacity of exceeding themselves.

The song Crow Covered Tree was recorded in Monsanto, Sintra and it was directed by Joana Linda.


"A looming thought was lurking in my head
Dr. Death came to visit us again
With my lungs tangled in my thoughts I leaned back against the pillow
I would make my way back to sleep once more"
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