Today, SEIVA release their new single “Esta noite sai a ronda” on all digital platforms. This is the second theme released for a new album to be edited this year.
[dropcap]B[/dropcap]ut what is a “ronda” (“round”) anyway? Joana Negrão, one of the members of SEIVA explains to us that “(the “ronda”) were groups of men who went out through the village to play and sing at the doors of the girls who they wanted to court. It is a traditional song that we hear by the voice of Catarina Chitas, a singer from Penha Garcia, in Beira-Baixa“.
This trio of musicians, composed by Joana Negrão, Rita Nóvoa and Vasco Ribeiro Casais, joined 7 years ago and plays folk music with a more feminine perspective “we will seek a lot of inspiration for women in both traditional and original songs. many of those that evoke female divine entities, usually sung by women who seek comfort and strength, and give us strength too. We also like the packages, the work songs and the party songs sung by women, like the S. João that we have on this record and that talks about the desire to go to the party without her husband’s authorization“, says Joana Negrão.
“Esta noite sai a ronda“ is the second single from a new album to come out in 2021, which succeeds the first “Virgem da Consolação“. Joana Negrão explains what the difference is in terms of the sound of this new album in relation to the first one: “on the first album, we still felt very divided between the original creations and the traditional songs we had chosen. Search for songs of Portuguese oral tradition but we have already managed to make the original and traditional songs meet and make sense together. It is basically to be able to create songs in the 21st century, with traditional Portuguese instruments (Braguesa, Gaitas-de-fole, Adufes, Cavaquinho, Bombos) with the sound of today, amplified and electric, but that could be dances and romances of the last century in any village.”
