“Matador”, the theme of advancement of the new disc record of Minta & The Brook Trout is available from today on digital platforms.
Demolition Derby, the band’s long-awaited fourth studio album, hits stores on April 16th and can be purchased in pre-order at the band’s Bandcamp. The concert for the presentation of the new album is scheduled for May 24, at the Teatro Maria Matos, in Lisbon, and tickets are already on sale.
The album arrives in the year that marks the 15th anniversary of the beginning of the project that gave rise to Minta & The Brook Trout, a band founded by Francisca Cortesão (voice, electric and acoustic guitar) and composed by Mariana Ricardo (bass and voice), Margarida Campelo (piano, electric piano, synthesizer and voice) and Tomás Sousa (drums and voice).
Written and composed by Francisca Cortesão, “Matador” anticipates the arrival of the new set of songs – written over two years and taken to the studio in December 2020. The video can be seen on the band’s youtube channel.
“Matador” was the first song to be written for the album that would come to be called Demolition Derby, in the distant year of 2018. Listening to it now, I realize that there are many of the subjects that run through the entire album: artificial landscapes, the relationship with the passage of time, self-delusions and disappointments and, finally, an attempt to make peace with a certain inner turmoil. “Matador” could refer to a bullfighter, a car model or a record label that is very close to me. But in this case, it refers to an organ model manufactured by Farfisa, in which I played for the first time the organ line that came to become this song. In the disc version, the original line is still there, appearing and disappearing, but it never ended up being recorded on a Matador.
-Francisca Cortesão
