EU.CLIDES

You spoke today, at the show you offered us at the Centro Cultural Português in Praia , of the enormous respect you have for art, and therefore for the care and demands you place on yourself and your shows.
Well, for us, the two things are related…and today…you showed it in a superior way.
When I saw you for the first time, still as a guitarist for Mayra Andrade, your own artistic persona and personality were already noticeable. The place you occupied on Mayra's then 'enormous' stage – was yours.
Meanwhile, you made your journey, and I believe that what I saw in yesterday's Euclides blossomed into a firm mark in today's. What you brought us today ---to the city where you were born…was an enormous show, with moments, yes, of your own signature, of striking demand where 3 musicians made up the entire musical-stage, and the rest of the team was also with us on stage. If everything made a precious whole – from lyrics to instruments and instrumentals, from the individual participations of your musicians, from the physical and musical details of your guitar, from the image, allow me here a fierce hat-tip to the lighting technician and the scenery painted by him…from the atmosphere created in the room by the 'fog effect' to the precious play and design of lights…bravo a thousand times
I also couldn't fail to praise the 'without processes of possession' manner – which implies enormous states of sharing (or else this wouldn't be one of the requirements of 'those who don't work for the ego' – of music) the way you approached your and our blue shark – it was indeed and thus Orlando Pantera
Regarding your decline, Euclides – we await it here, because your Praia awaits you more and more often… Always keep it in mind.

....as they say in Portugal… go on, kid — it’s your path now.