Salvador Sobral’s new single “paint the town” now available
One day from editing “bpm”, his third studio record, Salvador Sobral releases “paint the town”.
The video, made and edited by Jep Jorba, is based on an original idea by Juan Daniel González and Sol Dominguez and includes the special participation of the children who make the choirs in the song: Bianca Pereira, Diana Gomes, Ghaith Driouich, Inês Madruga, Leonor Gomes, Lucas Cruz, Santiago Oliveira and Sofia Gomes – students of the Geração Orchestra of the Nucleus of the Almeida Garrett Group.
“When I joined Leo Aldrey in Alentejo, in February 2020, to start writing this album, we decided to create a conceptual scenario around which we started to compose – a useful tool to unlock the creative process that for me is quite distressing . That was how the idea of the last night in a theater came about. A theater in any city, at any time that was going to be demolished the next day to be turned into a car park and then made its last show night.”
“What kind of people would be present? And what would be the relationship between them? Interestingly, these limits offered us freedom to give life to the characters and tell their stories in this initial phase of creation. After an intense month locked in a house with only one wall piano and floor tom, we each went back to our metropolis, in the middle of a pandemic. This change in our composition dynamics consequently brought about a fading of that initial narrative concept of the disc. looking at myself, perceiving what I felt and, above all, realizing that I wanted to expose what I felt through the songs. But before I got there, “paint the town” appeared, written in this embryonic phase and born from that initial idea: it is narrated by the scenographer of the theater, a revolutionary character who does not accept its demolition – consigned by a tycoon – and who as a last act of rebellion decides to leave giant bags of paint scattered around the building io so that the next day, at the time of demolition, the whole city fills with color.”
