Letuce: a band of two
From a simple crush to revelation of the indie scene, the band Letuce distinguishes for its boldness sound and for it's relationship with love: to music.
Do you know those bands formed by passionate couples? Well, those normally are more intense, more intimate, and as a consequence of the carnal relation,more solid in its concept- despite that almost every band, in its ideal of their love to music, also ends up experiencing relationships (with or without sex). The band Letuce, formed by Letícia Novaes and Lucas Vasconcelos, serves as an example to the cited question and also exemplify how passion can influence the process of musical creation. "Exactly, I don't see anyone asking a guy who plays with his guy friends anywhere. So, Samuel Rosa, if you fight with Lelo, it's the end of your band?" And that's love: love, carnal, sexual, fraternal. Everything is love, everything with its own dynamic. We are lucky to fell in love by those who fall in love with you. We make music together and, so far, so good", states Leticia.
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Since the beginning of their fling and first album ,“Plano Para Cima dos Outros e Para Cima de Mim” (2009), until the release of their just released second album, “Manja Perene" (2012), the band gained recognition, maturity and is no longer a passionate musical joke, today with all its merit and well-deserved highlight in the alternative scene. "On our first album, we composed together, we were in a very passionate and curious state of mind. Nowadays, after 5 years and half together, we have a different life, so our compositions are other also. The earth spins, changes, but continues Earth. Our love has change, but it's still love. In our second album, for example, we counted with the help of a bass and a drum player in the creative process and the result was wonderful. Living in a bubble only makes sense in the initial stage (almost insane) of passion," quips the feminine side of Letuce, who also completes: "To have friends is wonderful and talented friends always add new values."
Different from its first album, more intimate and restrained, the second album "Manja Perene" (Bolacha), produced by Lucas Vasconcellos e Bernardo Pauleira, it's more daring and consistent in its proposals, beyond its originality- something not very common around here. The album, is surprising in each track and also within its songs. The variations, mismatches, melodies are the pillars of work who's not scared of failure, neither the pretension of being "gold", and that's why it caught our attention. Another discovery in this album, is that Lucas shows incredible talent for singing in two tracks, , “Areia Fina” e “Anatomia Sexual” - a song that born from a poem written on napkin by Fábio Lima. “Our sound is what we know, is what comes up. We seek a new sound, and that's why it's difficult to classify. Nowadays, everything is everything, Gal Costa, for example is doing eletronic music. And that's wonderful. There is the change of trying everything, being free for good and worse, of course. And it's good that people going our vibe" says the singer.
Besides the differentiated sound, "Manja Perene" still calls the attention for another reason: its financing process, through crowd-funding. Imagine an artist to be able to receive a direct investment from its fans to elaborate their new work, without knowing what will be, but trusting in the creation capacity and the success of the project. So that was basically what went on with Letuce's second album. "Soon, crowdfunding will not be seen as a "new method" or an "alternative method", and in fact as a possible method. We were happy with the collaboration of the fans which we are extremely gratefull, describes Leticia who refuses to accept the label "alternative" by saying "Alternative Band" is complicated, because everything is alternative compared to the big market. There is the big market, and everything else is alternative be it rock, forro, mpb, us", completes the singer.
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