"The woman inside each one of us
doesn't want silence anymore".
This silence is over, got it?
Please, silence is over!
The woman is inside me, inside "Elza".
I think this song was the most controversial because...
I didn't want it, no one in the group wanted it.
Hey, excuse me, I want it!!!
For God's sake, I insisted, I wanted this song!
I was feeling myself inside each one.
I said, "That's me!".
Then the idea of bringing the Ilu Obá group came up,
we already wanted to work with them...
He was looking for an arrangement
for this song but couldn't find it.
What kind of arrangement could work for this song?
Then he said: let's make this a percussion-based song.
I said: "Wonderful!".
And the result with the girls was outrageously wonderful.
We recorded all of them together... 15 girls.
15 girls.
15 beautiful black women...
15 wonderful black women...
16 including me!
16 including yourself, who's also a percussionist!
Yes, I'm a percussionist!
We recorded all together here in this room.
This room has beautiful acoustics, right?
It resembles the African candomblé rites, doesn't it?
Very, very good!
Over this we started adding the bass,
the guitars...
This is Zé Nigro, our bass player.
You asked me for a reggae bass line, right?
Yeah, reggae style...
This is Rafa's guitar.
And then Zé Nigro also recorded the synthesizers.
I remember when I added this sound you said,
"There's a cell phone ringing!".
I said "no, it's the arrangement!".
"There's a phone ringing, guys!".
We're listening to Zé Nigro's basses.
There are two basses.
Is this a bass?
Yes.
An electric bass...
and a synth bass. Let me solo each of them...
This is the electric bass.
And this is the synth bass.
Synth bass...
electric bass...
Then comes the guitars...
Who's this?
This is Rafa Barreto, his guitars.
This guy loves to make noise, right?
I love it, I love it!
The way I like it!
By the way, this song is where
I emphasized the Rs, remember?
There was this issue with the Rs, yes...
I just wanted to work harder on the Rs.
I didn't take too long to record.
"Não querrrrrrrrrr..."
"A mulherrrrrrrrr..."
Now, these percussions alone are serious stuff, right?
It's like a force from hell!
There's a warrior spirit, right?
When women play percussion they
don't want to be weaker than men.
So usually women play strongly, intensely!
But you can feel the woman's sensibility!
I love it. I feel inebriated with this, you know?
I'm very connected... Very connected.
These drum patterns...
I have a woman inside me,
I have several women inside me
Nobody doubts this!
Several!
Each one with a crazier thought than the other, right?
