Regresso agora cansado ao frio deste quarto, onde dentro em breve a luz será demasiada para olhos que dela se esquecem.
João Rui
Video by Morgan Silvestri [ Ora/Bolzano (Italia) 2010 ]
Video By Daniela Maduro (2009)
The Trial
Video by Morgan Silvestri [ Ora/Bolzano (Italia) 2010 ]
Crow Covered Tree
I remember I woke to find me sitting at the end of the bed
My fingers were calm and resting under my chin
My hands had been waiting to wake me from the strangest dream.
A looming thought was lurking in my head
Dr. Death had come to visit us again
With my lungs tangled in my thoughts, I leaned back against the pillow
I would make my way back to sleep once more
It won’t take too much time to find out that the bones you break
It won’t take too much time to find out that the bones you break are the least
I found myself in the same dream from where I had left a lifetime ago
I was sitting at the end of the bed, waiting for me to wake up
Thinking how I would break him the news
We’re going around, we’re going around in circles
How could I ask you even more?
It won’t take too much time to find out that the bones you break
It won’t take too much time to find out that the bones you break
And time if anything as been my good friend in this
And time if anything as been turning around,
turning around until I break
The crow covered tree outside the room
The crow covered tree outside the room
The crow covered tree outside the room
Had been asleep for days
Video by Daniela Maduro (2008)
(recording sessions of Like The Wolf)
Video By Daniela Maduro (2009)
My Blood
Video by Morgan Silvestri [ Ora/Bolzano (Italia) 2010 ]
Video by Daniela Maduro (2009)
Video By Daniela Maduro (2009)
Video by Morgan Silvestri [ Ora/Bolzano (Italia) 2010 ]


De perdidos al rio - I hear the bones snapping with the weight of each day, with each string that breaks, with each tuning peg that gives in or with the skin of the adufe that tears apart. I imagine that this is the way of the road to remind us that we only half of our heart within our chest. But today, in La Boca del Lobo in Madrid with the “No More Coins For The Jukebox” is was as though as if we were at home. Qué ilusíon! João Rui

Benjamin Sachs – We’re surrounding the roads back home: now from the north, in a Coruña, where we find Luis Moro, Lucia and Pepe, who immediately make us their own. We are from everywhere without being from anywhere - Jorri and I lift up the veil of the stage and become part of the Tribeca band of Luis Moro, banjo and harmonium in hand, just to make the song "Benjamin Sachs" even darker. After the silence, we set the fire to the stage with the promise of return. João Rui


Your Poison – Madness sat by me, handed me a dagger Video by Steve Ellington
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Zürich, Switzerland
28th of September 2010

Andoni, Nicolas & June – We bring the rain with us to the streets of Madrid, up to where our eyes flew over her in a terrace under the rain. Andoni told me that the wind woke up with strange eyes for in his back was travelling the water of other clouds – Nico tells me in a smile that he will be the first to receive her with his flag of victory (such courage in his feathers). June whispered me silently like the wind of the sea: if this silence was another, without eyes trying to find me, I would sing with you. My three angels. As if it was the porch of the Den, without the stage or noise, we went back to the heart of each song. João Rui
Depois de um mês afastada, regressei à alcateia na companhia de uma menina fantástica, a Marta, a grande vencedora do Passatempo da Antena 3. Foi sem dúvida um dia emotivo, de encontros e reencontros, na lindíssima Plaza de S. Jorge, em Cáceres.
Cáceres, So far away - How many more times will you find yourself by the door of your house just to hear your voice whispering quietly:
The fever of Bilbao - I return to the first pages of the black notebook to meet with what the memory lost in the meanwhile. Because we've been here before. Yes,the Basque Country, on the 12th of August when we were travelling from Malaga to Guingamp. We stopped for a while in San Sebastian by the rough sea of two in the morning. Perhaps it was four. I do not remember because the night was a mantle so thick above the ocean waves...Today is another light and temperature that receive us, but the lack of time is equal. Showcase in the center of Bilbao in the late afternoon and an evening concert at night, at Fever Club. What is this fever that comes to see of us in between songs? João Rui
“Cuando todas tus esperanzas son sueños y plumas, todo lo que pierdes son sueños y plumas”
Zürich, Bern, Fribourg, Bern, Fribourg, Barcelona? – Like the two sides of a selfish dice, we cannot deliver one of the sides to the green carpet of the table. So we jump from town to town as if the following could be the redemption of the previous. If the morning is of Zürich, the afternoon is already of other sightings. In Bern, we parted briefly, near the train station that takes me to Fribourg for a Showcase at Fnac. But shortly after, I return in the same train, half crumpled from dancing with the wolf. The landscape, even faster, in a steady pace almost lets me fall asleep back to Bern. I’m still sitting on the subway in Hamburg, though the window tells me another story framed in a landscape that is so far. We’re expected in the dungeon of Ono in Bern, where the eyes of Moscow came to see us in another delirium of the stage. It is again time to go? We return to the road with no time to rest because we’re being called upon by the distant voices of Barcelona. What late hour… João Rui

Antwerp - Jigsaw You - Save for the last day the best of what you have left. Save for the end that smile that transfigurates you. This song is for you Jules. Thank you! João Rui

The Port of Hamburg - There is a mist that does not turn into fog or rain, along the docks of the port of Hamburg. And every time we escape from our house, we are received by that moisture does not cool our bones. We cut the wind to the metro and we move through underground passages around the roots of this city. We escape the fog, wind and rain but we didn’t see the smile of the sun. Then night falls on the shadow of the Mobile Blues Club. Today I am the guest of Thomas and the boys of My Pony, My Rifle And Me in their great song "Your Pa Fought With John Brown." With banjo in hand, today the song became "Your Pa & Me Fought With John Brown". After the wolf took the stage, we returned to the mist. João Rui
Photo by Daniela Maduro