Selected via the open call launched earlier this year, the collaborative project from singer-songwriter chica and b\u00e1 alvares, double-bass player and key figure of some of the most fertile and diverse musical scenes in Lisbon, seeks to grapple, in Castro Marim, the problematics of \u201csociety\u2019s undesirables\u201d, an expression utilized by the Estado Novo to define punishment by exile over decades of repression in the not so distant past. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Following previous research work and interviews focused on this historical question along with Teresa Serra Nunes, who joined the group for this interview, chica and b\u00e1 alvares developed new songs and lyrics based on the resources generated from this investigation - creating a dialogue with past and present lives, in a sharing of \u2018despair\u2019, which, as is often said, is \u201cthe essence of protest songs\u201d. These songs of sorrow were presented live at Velho Cavalinho - Taberna Medieval, on the afternoon of the 24th of June.<\/p>\n\n\n\n