The Portuguese multidisciplinary collective, which blends music with poetry, introduced themselves to the Argentine public with the show "Os surrealistas", in which they recreate the poetic imagination from the music and words of several authors.

In this case, the chosen authors were the surrealist poets António José Forte, António Maria Lisboa, Alexandre O'Neill, Mário Cesariny, Fernando Lemos, Carlos Eurico da Costa, Pedro Oom and Mário-Henrique Leiria.

Halfway through the show, where the word freedom was heard more than once, Nuno Miguel Guedes, one of the band's voices, thanked the audience and left a message: "Thank you for accompanying us on this journey to the surrealists and to the freedom that makes us accomplices at this moment."

The musicians had stated that their performance would not have any explicit reference to 25 April, but that at the same time it would be a celebration of that event, through the choice of surrealist artists, who "always have a flag that unites them, which is freedom".

"The ephemeris is not even necessary, those who listen to us today will realize that things are connected", explained Miguel Guedes.

"There is a definition of surrealism by Helder Macedo that goes in that direction: surrealism can be defined as the absolute refusal of everything that oppresses us. Hence the idea of absolute freedom and the exercise of freedom, even where it apparently does not exist. I think that is 25 April", added José Anjos, who besides giving voice in the shows, plays Darbuka.

For the show, besides poetry and music, the group had the collaboration of a visual artist from Porto, João Alves, "surrealist out of his time", and this live work was used through images.

"Therefore, there is an attempt to make the audience recreate a certain imagination that goes beyond words, there is a hybrid content between music, words and image that we believe is well achieved", the musician Alexandre Cortês told Lusa.

"It is a sign of the times, this hybrid side of the intersection of different disciplines, in our case around the word, and it is a very enriching form of artistic expression that explores this transdisciplinarity", he added.

The musician, who plays electric bass in the band, stressed that throughout the many shows they have already done, they feel "that the audience is very surprised because it never crossed their minds that this type of language could be so captivating. In a way, our goal is to desacralize what is the canon of the poetry session".

"It is interesting to realize that it is a very eclectic audience: we have from 17-year-olds dressed in black with Ezra Pound under their arm watching the concert, to old people, who appear at the shows and tell us that they never thought that such a thing existed, many teachers, students. We have already been told that this is poetry to dance to", he explained.

This diversity was also present today in Buenos Aires, a city where they had never performed before, but which they considered to be an important stage for the proximity of the languages.

"I hope that the audience can extract something from the words spoken, but the show itself goes a little beyond that intention, I think that as a whole the music helps a lot for the words to be understood. Then the performance part is very important, things complement each other", said Alexandre Cortez, who plays electric bass.

In the words of José Anjos, when combining music and poetry and the spoken word, something happens that even if they don't know what it is, they are going in the direction of something.

"And the beauty of doing this live and with an audience that we know does not know us is that we are going in the direction of something new together, and I think that this sharing is wonderful and worth the risk of experimentation, which I think is the greatest exercise of freedom", he added.

At the end of the show, Alexandre Cortez addressed a message to the Argentine audience that had listened to them and applauded them: "Much courage for the times to come", which drew even more applause.

In addition to these three musicians, Sérgio Costa performed on electric guitar, Filipe Valentim on keyboard, Luis Bastos on saxophone and clarinet, Mário Anjos on drums, and Paula Cortes on vocals.

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