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“A Um Osso” is the first single from Filho da Mãe’s upcoming album, “Terra Dormente”, which will be released on April 8 by Omnichord Records.
“A Um Osso” was recorded in Ílhavo, in the Capela da Biblioteca Municipal, in August 2021, in a period still very marked by the effects of the pandemic with successive confinements and deflation. One could imagine a complicated following year with “a thousand dogs to a bone” from which the name of the song comes.
It was a two-way fight between Filho da Mãe on the guitar and Hugo Valverde behind the microphones with some ideas flying against the walls of the chapel and finding salvation at the dinner table. Several takes were followed over the days and attempts to tame the music until finally, already in the process of mixing the record, it ended up revealing itself naturally.
It is a mark of strength in “Terra Dormente”, an album that walks between two diffuse worlds, which suggests duplicated images and reflections that oppose a so-called “reality” to any other world. Ana Viotti, director of the music video that accompanies the release of the single, captures these images full of reflections well and shuffles them as if mixing those two “worlds” in an almost idyllic setting at dawn, setting the tone for the imagination of the remaining themes that make up this new work by Filho da Mãe.
The return of Filho da Mãe also takes place on stage, with a show already scheduled for the 16th of March at Culturgest, in Lisbon. This concert will be the first of “Terra Dormente” and serves as a pre-presentation of the album to be released on April 8th. Basically, it will be an unprecedented opportunity for spectators who, in this show, will be able to have the experience of listening to the complete album, played in its entirety live, even before its edition.
ABOUT THE CONCERT: The return of Filho da Mãe is an achievement. First, for himself; then, for all of us, who have been waiting for too long. Restlessly going through a pandemic transformed into a tunnel with no apparent exit, the light that was flickering at its end did not always correspond to reality, ending up mixing with various fictions, adding torments, doubts and uncertainties. At a certain point, it was precisely this lack of discernment of what is real or not that ended up serving as inspiration, an uncertainty that multiplied in the very credible hypothesis of several edited albums, between the acoustic angel and the electric demon, between drafts in the Alentejo. and more drafts in Lisbon, made up of words with double meanings fingered for hours on end. Inevitably, the wait became an obligation, like a necessary pilgrimage. At the end of all this, Rui confessed to us that the postponement was the best option of all, so that he would come out of that tunnel alive and create, out of pain and time, the music that Filho da Mãe needed to make.
– Pedro Santos, Culturgest –