Ana Lua Caiano

(PT)

There are artists like that, who suddenly appear to shake certainties and open new paths. With only two EPs released, his big secret – or rather his greatest talent – is his ability to mix traditional Portuguese music with electronic music. And in this total exploration of musical fusion, he manages to create melodies, because that's what it's all about, referring to a tradition lost in time, using choirs and harmonies, but also to everyday life, with synthesizers, beat-machines and samples of “day-to-day sounds”, bringing the Portuguese folk heritage to the modern world, through electronics and technology. He made himself known only in the past, with the single You don't even want me, although music is an old passion: he started playing the piano at a very young age and later took a course at the Hot Clube de Portugal, while completing his degree in Communication Design. Somewhere in 2020, while working on soundtracks, he begins to sew the first lines of this innovative musical project, which gives as much importance to the words as to the music that surrounds them. This is even more remarkable when you take into account that Ana Lua Caiano is a “one woman show”, which with only a synthesizer, a microphone, the ever-present bass drum and several percussion instruments, creates several sound layers in real time, through of overlapping loops. However, he has already edited two EPs, I arrived late yesterday (2022) and If dancing is just after (2023) who consecrated it, definitively, not as another hope, but as one of the most consistent certainties to emerge in Portuguese music in recent years.