{"id":3321,"date":"2023-09-25T11:43:50","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T14:43:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.azulmusic.com.br\/en\/?post_type=portfolio&p=3321"},"modified":"2026-02-05T12:26:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T15:26:48","slug":"alive","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/www.azulmusic.com.br\/en\/portfolio-item\/alive\/","title":{"rendered":"Alive"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Alive<\/h3>
Maycon Ananias<\/a>\n<\/div>
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ALIVE is an album devoted to overcoming. Maycon Ananias, inspired by a distressing biographical chapter, spends part of it engrossed in creating musical pieces. These were birthed during a period when a \u201chuge personal dilemma and at the same time a blessing\u201d emerged, to quote the composer, producer, and arranger himself, whose career, in brief, includes the music for “Teus Olhos Meus<\/em>“, winner in the “Best Soundtrack” category at the Los Angeles Brazilian Film Festival (2012).<\/p>\n

ALIVE traces back to an accident the artist suffered, a collision that resulted in compound fractures, preventing him from playing. The slow but inevitable return to music, and even a portion of his recovery, is linked to all seven tracks of this conceptually interconnected album.<\/p>\n

At the beginning of the first piece, Broken Leg, Bruised Face<\/em>, after chords that assure there’s much more to come, a synthesizer note picks up where the piano stops, followed by the cello and the other strings of a quartet. This start foreshadows the unique atmospheres of the album, where the electronic, so organic in its nature, intertwines with the acoustic as if it inherently belonged. In There’s a Place Called Home<\/em>, a consistent melodic inclination constructs a wordless song, gaining momentum and reaching a refined climax near the end. With a sharp metaphor rooted in the biting and playful arcades of the 1980s and 1990s, Insert Coin (Continue)<\/em>, the final track filled with contrasts, turns towards the art of starting anew and symbolizes ALIVE as a whole: from a strenuous biographical process transformed into a nod to life, emerge songs that rejuvenate and enchant.<\/p>\n

Text: Daniel Bento –\u00a0@enxerguemusica<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/p><\/div>

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