Interview // With The Weatherman

The Weatherman is a Portuguese project, created in 2006 by Alex Monteiro - mentor, singer and songwriter, also playing the piano and guitars.
Nowadays, the band is composed by the drummer Nuno Sarafa (X-Wife and Best Youth) and the bassist João André (André Indiana and Mónica Ferraz) besides other invited musicians.

With two released albums: Cruisin Alaska in 2006, Jamboree Park at the Milky Way in 2009 and recently the homonym album.

Read what was written about The Weatherman here.

Alexandre Monteiro got the time to join us for a small talk about his work, his new record and what's like to be a musician.

Check the entire interview below:

[Special thanks to The Weatherman for his time and kindness, to Raquel Lains for everything and to Jorge Antunes]

The Weatherman, Proper Goodbye

The Weatherman is a Portuguese project, created in 2006 by Alex Monteiro - mentor, singer and songwriter, also playing the piano and guitars.
Nowadays, the band is composed by the drummer Nuno Sarafa (X-Wife and Best Youth) and the bassist João André (André Indiana and Mónica Ferraz) besides other invited musicians.

With two released albums: Cruisin Alaska in 2006 and Jamboree Park at the Milky Way in 2009, he is a constant surprise and a really interesting pop/rock project.

After a year off from live performances, exclusively to write and record the new album - returning with a mix of several and very different influences from electronic music to european folk that identifies The Weatherman's new and more autobiographical identity.

Proper Goodbye is the presentation single for the upcoming album Weatherman.
This song also counts with the special participation of Rui Maia from X-Wife and Mirror People.

The song is based on the question "If you were given the opportunity to choose the best possible way of saying goodbye, how would you do it?", concluding that goodbyes are rarely appropriate.
Proper Goodbye is the result of The Weatherman's ideal goodbye.
Check a post, he did about this song and Neil Armstrong.

The video was directed by Vasco Mendes.

"If you could stay

Just a little longer

You wouldn't have to wait

For a nicer proper goodbye"

themed week // David Fonseca, What Life Is For

This themed week is going to be very exciting. I've been thinking about doing it for a long time but there wasn't enough to do it properly.

I've been noticing that many artists are releasing new works, such as singles, albums or projects, during the next few months. So, this themed week is going to be related with the most recent singles taken from albums to be released between February and March. Curious to check my discoveries?

Last night, the Portuguese artist David Fonseca released his new single being included on the first album Rising from the project Seasons - to be released in March 21. The second part of Seasons, which is going to be named Falling is due to be released on next September 21. Read our post about it, clicking here.

The principal objective is to share Fonseca's life for an year on music - the deadline is March 2013.

What Life Is For is the presentation single for the first album Rising, from Seasons. The song has the contribution of Sérgio Nascimento on drums, Francisca Cortesão (Minta) on backing vocals and Rui Maia (from X-Wife) on keyboards. The production was done by David himself and Nelson Carvalho.

"A million stars up in the sky

Now can you tell me which one am I?

I never felt like this before

And my heart keeps wanting more

Then let’s not hide it, I won’t hide it anymore

Who knows what life is for?"

Follow this themed week clicking here. 


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