IN STEREO

The fact is, music has always attracted my attention. It is always inside me, so I have let everything happen when it’s supposed to. I don’t want to stop – music is ingrained as part of my life and maybe that’s why I am the oldest of the group. And we are still going strong. We will have a great legacy, because when we finally stop, we will leave the example that age is not a limitation. Many times, it actually strengthens us much more, so that the new generations copy what we try to do. What we are accomplishing as a group is that we are investigating native music, encouraging people so that in the long run they [can] make the music that we are rescuing. Unfortunately, the new generation no longer values heritage; it is practically being lost from there.

When we see, for example, some house has been refurbished, [and] the next day, graffiti, tags, all that, this shows us that young people do not value heritage. And also, maybe that nothing is forever. There are houses that had a wall from 1.6 to 1.7 metres but over time it is corrupted, and it is breaking down. Between all that and modernity, where they are covered with brick, it removes the city’s architecture. So that is the modernisation unfortunately, and we have to say it is happening. We have to move on – we cannot be isolated from modernism either. – Don Jorge