This project departed from Vitor Rua’s idea of setting up this trio to make music for the 16 Zen poems of Herberto Helder, integrating in this concept the “mutant Portuguese guitars” which Nuno Rebelo has been exploring since 1993.

The creative and subversive interpretation of the poems by Vera Mantero, made it necessary to visually present the poems, and video projection was the media chosen to do so. This fact gave origin to the 16 video animations, created by Nuno Rebelo. Besides their first function of presenting the poems in their original form, the animations also function as a set for the performance, in a playful plastic interpretation of the poems.

The mutant portuguese guitars of Nuno Rebelo and Vítor Rua appear in this context drawing different soundscapes which act as textures for the poems, destroyed and rebuilt through Vera Mantero’s voice. In the 'parlato' of the vocals, in the lyric vocalizations and whispers, in the fragile and precious sound of the mutant portuguese guitars and in the psychedelic quality of the video, some kind of Zen is ventured, a Zen that although coming from eastern and ancient origins, risks a contemporary and western way of being, such as – in our opinion – Herberto Helder did in his 16 Zen poems.

In June of 2005, the trio contributed to the compilation CD “Portugal a new sound portrait”, edited by N_Records, with the song “O vento pára”.