"In his writings, Pierre Boulez posed the question: Is the poem to be sung, recited or spoken? On this album, we added more nuances to the possibilities of expression; we asked ourselves if there is really a difference between singing, reciting or saying, and if there are any boundaries at all, between these nuances. We therefore invite the listener to accompany us on this journey."-4DaRecord

"A voice and a double bass. A fascinating alliance like a beautiful bird singing and yawning on a branch. The double bass vibrates with all its wood, its soul, its hatches, its throbbing bridge, and with all the depth of its case that covets feminine curves. Faced with this imposing instrument, which seems awkward but which João Madeira's wit and talent make vibrate and sing, bounce and reverberate, Margarida Mestre's voice swirls and rises, fragile and confident, inspired and garrulous, secret and audacious, multiform, a storyteller and poet of the ineffable.

Margarida creates and renews narratives over the course of ten pieces that each have their own story, their own feelings, their own allusions, and a distinctive poetry. The sound of the Portuguese language is magnificent. Phonetic sound poetry versus fragments of bowed ostinatos re-recorded in 'Aconteco-me.' In 'Deu la Deu,' the timbre of her voice evokes Jeanne Lee, backed by a slight walking-bass of circumstance.

If the bow oscillates lovingly in 'Paisagem,' the wandering voice murmurs a wordless refrain in 'Muinera para 2,' and we recognize a Diction recording of an English story, The Walrus and the Carpenter, a poetic narrative in which the double bass plays the role of the carpenter sawing logs. We hear the wood vibrate as it is transformed into planks, reacting instinctively to the narrator's words and emphases, penetrating the meaning of the text with the stroke of a bow. Over ten superbly well-filled minutes, the double bassist's sensitivity embodies a second imaginary character, the voice accompanied with great talent by the double bass.

In 'Co,' Margarida's voice implodes vocally with borborygmos-intimately oral sonorities that trigger the tongue, lips, cheeks, roof of the mouth, throat, and inspiration-while the double bassist chastises his double bass with a scalpel bow in tune. Each of the duo's compositions-an amazing conversation-takes on different meanings of sung, spoken, and improvised vocal work, in a poetic and dramatic dimension of the human voice, using all the resources of an experienced singer with advanced techniques.

The bassist's role is to create a sonic thread that brings together the different imaginative compositions within a work that is completely open to diversity. By inserting into it a remarkable improvised and playful dimension-didactic and superbly original-the duo crafts an album that resonates with expressive intensity and boundless creativity."-Jean-Michel Van Schouwburg