Our first flight to Brazil
We will always
remember our very first stay in Sao Paulo ! On the other part of the
world,in Southern America.
We had a very good
flight, all the members of the band included !
Many people and
fans wanted to see us on stage…and wanted to know how was our landing
like !
But now, we might
say that the journey back to France seemed longer than the way to Brazil !
There will be many
things that miss us in France ! Particularly those little bacon and cheese
cold sandwiches prepared by the people who invited us to play in their
country !
Besides they promissed to invite us back, and
that’s what they did during the following years !
There were many
things that really impressed us ! We found
rather strange to stay all day
long at the very top of a sky scraper !
We had a kind
of nanny dedicated by the organizers to
care about us ! The way she used to
wash all the walls every day, by throwing water
in the bathroom ! And the way she everyday emptied every shelf of
the flat to clean them entirely !
The floors and
walls were so thin that we could hear her talking to herself, when she was not
singing ! She rinsed, spoke and cleaned and talked very slowly.
We really thought
she was talking to other invisible persons that only her could see !
We were not allowed
to go out ! The streets were not
safe ! We were always accompanied by local friends ! They were very
watchfull about our safety ! I remember our long time night driving
through the big city with music playing loud, the doors of the car locked from
the inside. Our drivers were taking care about not stopping at the red
light to avoid incident with possible robbers !!!!
We will always
remember the street noises, the police cars rolling fast and noisingly along
the streets with their blue lights on and sometimes the sound of the
guns … !
In spite of the
windows closed of our flat, we listened to them night and day.
It was impossible
to cover them with the sound of the old black and white television : sad
love novelas and evangelistic predicators screaming night and day!
The presence of
copters landing on the heliports located
on some high building tops ! Incredible !
Sao Paulo is so big
and so strange, ultra modern chaos melt with Macumba survivances
encountered for example in some forgotten quarters of the Consolaçao Cemetery,
a kind of tropical Père Lachaise with old graves from the end of the XIXth
century and begining of the XXth.
On stage
it was marvelous.
Two sets on two different days ! There was a feeling of magic cause we had never
played there before and the audience was bigger than we expected according to
the few recognition we had in France in those times.
We got
the sensation that all the public audience was specially there for us…
I still
can’t imagine the reason for or why they were there. We played two hours and a little more ! That
was stressing and positive at the same time !In those 90’s years we were quite
unknown in our own country and this warm welcoming of southern american fans
was a kind of revelation for us.
This
first stay in Sao Paulo completely changed the vision we had of our own music
and it’s possible impact on the heart and soul of people.
We
certainly knew that nothing would be the same after those brazilian shows !
It was
the beginning of a kind of renaissance. This incredible experience gave us the
strength to bring back the band to a longer life, recording several new
original albums and making numerous OMS reeditions that were released since then not only in
Brazil but, at last, on our own continent and we
even finally played live in the Wave Gotik Treffen of Leipzig in spite of our
« not so goth » music… !
Patrick L.Robin /
Opéra Multi Steel.
December 2014.
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DUSK MEMORIES
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