№ 002 · Cais do Avesso
Doze Tempos
Twelve tracks cross the entire life of a couple, from a first chance encounter at 19 to an ordinary morning at 74. Each track has its own page with a complete lyric translation. The original Brazilian Portuguese pages remain available through the PT links.
Cais do Avesso is a virtual artist project. The music and singing voices are generated with Suno, with human direction of the writing, selection and production.
Track by track
Each track has its own page with a complete lyric translation. The original Brazilian Portuguese pages remain available through the PT links.
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O trânsito · The Traffic Light
A street corner, an unknown man, a memory that stays.
Uma carta que não mandei · A Letter I Did Not Send
A single line about her in a letter to a distant brother.
A mesa de domingo · The Sunday Table
Family Sunday lunch, seven glasses, an empty chair.
O que disse ao meu pai · What I Told My Father
The dying father listens, three seconds, and knows.
O cabelo curto · The Short Hair
She cut her hair, he does not say, she does not say he did not say.
O que não contei · What I Did Not Tell
Three days between the test and the blood, kept to herself.
A vizinha · The Neighbor
Eight minutes with Ana, and at home no one asks.
O aniversário · The Birthday
Cake, blue ribbon, memory of her dead mother, his hand returned.
Quando ele cozinha · When He Cooks
After twenty-five years, a song of his she had never heard.
A cozinha às três da manhã · The Kitchen at Three in the Morning
Two voices in the same kitchen, never in sync.
A filha liga · The Daughter Calls
A small lie to their daughter, and the phone that does not ring again.
Uma manhã qualquer · Any Ordinary Morning
Coffee for two, he forgets her name, she says it, he laughs.