Lives of the Unsigned - O Teatro Magico

O Teatro Magico is a gorgeously entertaining Brazilian band that could romance any hard heart. Their amazing acoustic guitar elements, mixed with violin, saxophone, guitars, bass, flutes and many other instruments join together to create a graceful and smooth composition in a uniquely poetic way.

Currently, they are running around the country with shows booking out their diaries, but Fernando Anitelli took time out to talk about his music, his aspirations, inspirations, and whats in store for The Magic Theatre.

Every once in a while you find musicians that pour every part of their heart and soul into the music they make. musicians that feel music instead of simply hearing it. O Teatro Magico is a perfect example of time taken to delve into the depths of ones emotions. Its music in its better way of saying it: made with truth, taking a chance to look around in a poetic, scenic and musical way, and finding the best character of your 'every day play.' Finding your own magic theatre and touching hope for a while. Its also a time to think about the choices, chances and reasons why!

With ten musicians pouring their heart into their songs for O Teatro Magico for the past two years, its incredibly easy to get caught up in your own soft, beautiful world through their music!

Fernando Anitelli leading O Teatro Magico at Cafe Uranus

It's hard to believe that this fascinating band has only been around for two years. So much work has gone into it since the beginning that they have already achieved so much. Musically, I have my freedom to write and to record everything in the way I want because there is not anyone giving me orders to compose a three minute song, ready to be played on every radio stationand that is already a great conquest. Believe me.

It wasn't always like this. The idea for O Teatro Magico came two years ago, Fernando explains. I had some material that I wanted to record after reading Hermann Hesse. So, what I did was simple - I got all the ideas that were able to tell the stories I was looking for and I put them all together as a play. So we started recording the album treating it as a play! The musical producer Ronaldo Rossato and I spent the year of 2003 seeing each other every morning, working on this album.

I called all my musician friends including Cordel do Fogo Encantado, Simone Soul and many others so we had a participation of 30 friends at the end of it. So I decided to make up a band that could be able to reproduce what the other 30 guys had done in the studio! And that is when we started performing!

Fernando describes the Brazilian music scene as great. There are thousands of minds working on new, interesting, and unique things. However, the problem is the media. It is all taken by the big records. Most of the media groups face music as a product first, but Fernando believes that it should be portrayed as an expression - a word of joy and hope with a second of inspiration.

It seemed the most appropriate choice for becoming accustomed to the Brazilian music scene, therefore, to focus on live performance. We started playing in an old theatre in downtown Now a great music hall named BLEN BLEN has contacted us for four presentations! So it is like an answer for our hard work that is it.

Fernando Anitelli leading O Teatro Magico at Cafe Uranus

If anyone has heard the uplifting and incredibly enlightening songs from O Teatro Magico like Pratododia and Zaluzejo, they will realise why the audiences are so large! It would be literally impossible to stay off your feet, dancing to the gorgeous sound!

The performances are the only moment to show everything we are supposed to - to present the idea of what The Magic Theatre is! We mix a bit of acting, juggling, poetry declaiming and, of course, music! There is a specific moment where we make music with the audience. The band starts playing anything and I get into the crowd asking for words! So people start saying the words they want anything! And we make music out of that! Things happen during our performances, and this is the best it could get."

On the latest CD, Fernando has really gone back to the early days of his childhood for ideas. My family has been a great inspiration for this album: the stories of my grandfather, my father playing pencil as percussion on his teeth, the incredible wrong-words that an old woman called Josilene Raimunda speaks during her days around us, my mom yelling at me through the answer machine.

My greatest influences are acoustic guitars - I also love to listen to sounds of tribes, Indians, nature, anything that sounds real! And such a diverse range of musical inspirations he has! Everything from Gilberto Gil, Simon and Garfunkel, Dave Matthews, Mawaca, Chico Science, Lenine, Ben Harper and Zeca Baleiro. No wonder they have such a unique sound!

Whats to come for The Magic Theatre? I dont know Music can take us to a lot of different roads - everything from having your own company; able to give concerts anywhere, to becoming the culture minister of your own country! Able to help and save our culture through music and other types of expression!

Ah Maybe one day we will see a leader with such a strong heart like these musicians that the positive cultural impact on Brazil will be phenomenal.

The question of the day was one that left me feeling proud to have such amazing talent and passion within the music industry.

Why do you make music?

Because it is my gift. I didnt want to face God and say 'Hey! Do you remember that gift youve given me? Well, Ive made it my special hobby and Ive spent my entire life working for a bank! I made a lot of money, bought my own house, got a wife and a dog'

Probably God would say 'So what?' Well I do music, just because of that

If you want to listen to any of O Teatro Magico's gorgeous tracks or find out more information, visit www.oteatromagico.mus.br - performance dates are also there.

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