Lavosier

📷Darek Mazzone

Lead by the spirit of ”tropicalismo”, we try to see music not only as a matter of individuality, but as a full sense of
awareness and presence in the world we’re living in right now.

A world that already existed before.

Antropofagia (act of cannibalism practiced between ancient tribes all over the globe, act of eating someone of their own
species), was one of the arguments that represented the modernist movement in Brazil. Oswald de Andrade, a Brazilian
poet, wrote in the early 1920’s the manifest of Antropofagia, trying to idealize an identity for such a multicultural and multiethnic people Brazilians were.
In the beginning of the 1970’s, a movement started growing in Brazil, with Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil as its most
enthusiastic supporters. They both used antropofagia to what they came to call “Tropicalismo”, since they, too,
felt they were “eating” European, American, and African music, and with this digestion, instead of very pure musical
identity, they were mixing their own music’s “melting pot”.

Also in the late 60 s, early 70 s, a series called “O Povo que Canta” was being recorded and produced in Portugal. This series had the purpose of recollecting old Portuguese folk songs, which were left untouched by the industrialization processes.

Michel Giacometti led this project, with the remarkable help of Fernando Lopes Graça. The two had a significant role not only in reuniting such precious assets of Portuguese culture, but also in the fundamental study of Portuguese popular music they developed.

The project Lavoisier was built on the inner need of making music. Whether it is sung in Portuguese or in English it
doesn’t matter since the principal purpose is to fulfill our very first instinct, which was Music. Lavoisier is a Portuguese
couple influenced by each other and the entire world of sensations that music can bring along, and while sharing the
same spirit of the Tropicalistas, Michel Giacometti and Fernando Lopes Graça, they head towards their own musical
expression, with no fears and no preconceptions about anything.