Its taken me quite a while but I can finally say that I enjoy/somewhat understand Emilio Jose as a legitimate artist after not only listening to Chorando Aprendese on repeat but also exploring the mind space and lets be honest, getting a bit crazy on the weekends.
At face value, many of Emilio's songs seem to be quickly thrown together to look complicated/sophisticated affairs, however look a bit deeper and realise things on a grander scale and his music evokes vivid memories and feelings of time and space. Much like the avant-garde Soviet film makers who create meaning and story through montage, juxtaposition and a dialectic mindset are Emilio's tools of choice in the creation of Chorando Aprendese. This is most apparent in tracks like Ti Deixachesme. I could also go on about Emilio's master of language not in the sense of lyrical genius in one particular language, but jumping between his native Portugese to Spanish, English and even Catalan, however if you can't understand most to any of it, it doesn't really matter.
Get yourself a copy of this latin american masterpiece, not folk or alternative as you'd expect in the current musical climate, but music for the mind.
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