Moacyr Luz and Pierre Aderne form a partnership in the intercontinental trace of ‘Mapa dos rios’

Recorded between Rio de Janeiro and Lisbon, the album echoes Carioca and Lusitanian memories of the two artists. Moacyr Luz (left) and Pierre Aderne release their first album as a duo, ‘Mapa dos rios’, with new songs from the partnership born in Lisbon digital and in LP since Friday, May 26th, Mapa dos rios is the result of a chance encounter between the artists in Alfama, a neighborhood in the center of Lisbon. Singer and composer raised in the city of Rio de Janeiro (RJ), but living in Portugal for years, Aderne told Luz that, when he played a cavaquinho from Rio for the first time, he felt that the instrument seemed to have already come with a melody inside. Luz offered to write the lyrics for this melody. Even having already put verses on the song, Aderne omitted the fact for the opportunity to open a partnership with the composer from Rio de Janeiro. The partnership bore fruit and yielded the album Mapa dos rios, recorded between Lisbon and Rio de Janeiro, between February 2022 and May 2023, with eleven new songs signed by the composers. One, Prado Júnior, had already been presented in a single edited on May 10th. The other ten – Sete Colinas, Meu Bem, Gastão Bahiana, Santo de Mãe, Vidigal – Cais do Sodré, Fado Gira, Vila Madalena, Sal de Outro Mar, Mamãe Oxum and Nos Ventos de Iansã – complete the disc repertoire that, among greetings from orixás, map addresses and characters from the artists’ lives in Rio de Janeiro and Lisbon, echoing memories of neighborhoods and streets of both cities. Aderne usually sent the lyrics and Luz set them to music. “It was as if we were composing for a film, in which the synopsis is to remember the past lived in the neighborhoods, to remember characters and addresses where we live – a family album in a photo frame with music included”, conceptualizes Pierre Aderne, founder of Rua das Pretas, an event that for 12 years has been promoting the approximation of Brazilian music with the sounds of Portugal and Portuguese-speaking Africa. On the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, the Rio de Janeiro partner also salutes the intercontinental bridge erected in Mapa dos rios. “My surname Luz comes from my Portuguese great-grandfather Manoel. Being in Lisbon brings me a feeling of walking inside myself, recognizing the slope that has been my life… The surprise, coming on the Tagus tide, invented a pier so I could meet my partner Pierre Aderne, Brazilian from Copacabana, but with a back studded with local clams. The conversation stretched across the Atlantic, with radars in perfect sync, which I treat as predestination. The past at the foot of the future”, poetizes Moacyr Luz, mentor of Samba do Trabalhador, a samba circle that since 2005 draws crowds from Rio de Janeiro on Monday afternoons. Cover of the album ‘Mapa dos rios’, by Moacyr Luz & Pierre Aderne AF Rodrigues



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