In this cabaret, superbly "cosmological",
one listens to poems.
Music,
almost all sung,
they are all about almost everything.
Small odes to the mysteries and problems
of being
here
today, on earth, in this universe:
to loves and their pains,
to the endings and their beginnings,
to the harmonies of chance, its rare frequencies,
to the enveloping absences and other ambivalences
humanly essential.
A series of existential p(r)o(bl)ems,
in short,
all of them about places
of other places,
all speaking in some way
about us in some way,
surrounded by stars
in the middle of the mist.

This cabaret was born from an invitation made by Madalena Victorino to Vera Mantero and me when, in March 2023 - fifteen years after our last concert - we went on stage to honour Gil Mendo. This cabaret is, therefore, the fruit of a perpetual reunion with him and for him. And it is also the place of a wonderful new beginning, inspired by him, dedicated to him. May Gil's light warm us, may his love continue to guide us.

Pedro Pinto, June 2023