{"id":42889,"date":"2016-12-05T18:29:30","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T16:29:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/the-portuguese-beatmaker-branko-and-the-capverdean-singer-mayra-andrade-get-together-on-reserva-pra-dois\/"},"modified":"2020-04-27T03:39:53","modified_gmt":"2020-04-27T02:39:53","slug":"the-portuguese-beatmaker-branko-and-the-capverdean-singer-mayra-andrade-get-together-on-reserva-pra-dois","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pan-african-music.com\/en\/the-portuguese-beatmaker-branko-and-the-capverdean-singer-mayra-andrade-get-together-on-reserva-pra-dois\/","title":{"rendered":"Branko and Mayra Andrade face-to-face in the “Reserva Pra Dois” video"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Portuguese beatmaker Branko and the Cape Verdean singer Mayra Andrade get together on “Reserva Pra Dois”<\/h3>\n

Cape Town (South Africa), New York (USA), S\u00e3o Paulo (Brazil), Amsterdam (Netherlands) and Lisbon (Portugal) his hometown : in 2015, producer Branko<\/strong>, who invented the Portuguese version of kuduro with Buraka Som Sistema, visited 5 cities in 3 different continents to take inspiration from the local sounds and work with up-and-coming artists. The result was Atlas<\/em>, a LP released on Branko’s own label, Enchufada. But there is a track recorded in Lisbon that eventually\u00a0doesn’t make it on the final tracklist.<\/p>\n

Branko recalls : “I made this song back in March 2015 while I was working on my debut album <\/em>Atlas. I’ve been a fan of Mayra Andrade’s work for a long time, so when the opportunity came for me to get in the studio with her I had to grab it like my life depended on it. I called Kalaf to come help us with the words and all together we came up with the concept in less than 24 hours. It wasn’t part of the album because I wasn’t fully happy with my production work, but after a while I picked it up again and was able to put together something that sounded a lot more interesting to me.”<\/em> The reworked version was featured on this year’s remix LP Atlas Expanded<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Finally, the video for “Reserva Pra Dois”<\/strong> is finally out today. It was recently filmed inside a warehouse located in the post-industrial Marvila neighbourhood in Lisbon, where Branko and Mayra Andrade face each other, the latter on the microphone, the former on the machines. A raw setting for a tender song filled with saudade<\/em>, a typical emotion of both Portugal and Cape Verde. The lyrics were co-written by Mayra Andrade and Kalaf Epalanga<\/strong>, Branko’s bandmate in Buraka. He explains : “it talks about that place that defines you, the one you’re only certain about once you’re far from it”<\/em>. And in the talented young Cape-Verdean singer, the lyrics oscillate between melancholia and serenity : “the feeling I have in me grows when I’m far from myself \/ so close, but here inside, so far away from here \/ inside this warm and furious womb you’ll always have a place \/ beyond the hereafter \/ without noise, with colours and a reservation for two.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Watch a behind the scene video<\/a> of the songwriting in this Lisbon episode of the web-series Atlas Unfolded<\/em> that documented Branko’s musical travels.<\/h4>\n