Deita as tuas penas de vitória nessa embarcação e lança-a às primeiras ondas que se quebrarem no teu peito.
É hora de voltar a terra que as novas conquistas são memória esquecida do teu futuro.
Hamburgo, junto ao porto.
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
The Dark Rider – Bruxelles: The cold wind tricked me mother. But still, with my body to the ground, I still believe that I can fake it. Joao Rui
Photo by Len
Dromen en veren - If tomorrow you don’t remember me, don’t worry, for I am just your heart that sometimes forgets to laugh. João Rui
Herr Dubliner – We meet again the smile of Claudia Fleischner in Mulhouse and the one of Jean Pierre. The smile of a whole town that one more recognized the chords we brought from so far away. Like Zé and Len, that came from our sea still with our sun in their skin. But today we have no time to let the French smiles ripen. We return to the Vaterland, Offenburg, south of Germany where Heidi opened for us the doors of The Dubliner, where Pascal was waiting for us by the piano. It’s like Gary says: I’m in love with the surprise of the road. You never know what the night is going to bring for us. For me, she brought a smile. Obrigado Jonathan. João Rui
Arrivals & Departures II – If yesterday it was the rain that received us, today that was yesterday condensed in just a few hours is but a threatening sky that has been looking upon us. He followed us to the doors of Paris only to brush our eyes when the two smiles that came with us had to leave our side.
I’ll never see this sunset again - I’m still lost in marble. We descend from Volterra in increasingly tight circles until we’re able to part our eyes from the flags that swirled around the bodies of shadow. To Firenze, to know what is of that wind that calls us upon her. We run from church to church for the faith that in one of these, our heart will be torn apart. That’s what the wind told me. But it occurred to me once more, that after your eyes know the dream that is the measure of all that follows and precedes it, then your prayers should become silent. Or cautious. For if not, anguish will be thy bread and wine your solitude. If I am a stranger in that temple, let me beg the silence that will be promised to me or let me believe in the lie the wind offered me. Wherever I lost you, I’m yet to find your forgiveness. João Rui
Medieval Tuscany – Only two streets separate a good handful of centuries from the solitude of the angular stone of Volterra. Only one hand. Full. João Rui
At one – If only I could stay here until the Sun was set. And again until it was born again. Until I couldn’t tell day, nor night, and not even me.
il Mare – I wanted to say goodbye from this sea. To leave him my goodbye and the certainty of return. But the voice that runs over the maritime plain won’t allow it: if to you I do not speak it is for my voice vanishes in love with yours. Joao Rui
Hostage of this land, drunk with blue, a longing of something I do not understand comes for me
João Rui
Ora, Italy 29.08.2010 - Before leaving. Still time for lunch in the garden, by the hands of the Machinist. A Grilled barbecue, a famished reminiscent of our country ... Tickets in hand, we smile to our next destination, which is on the other side of Italy, on the heel of the boot. A very long journey that will last all night awaits for us, so we part at the the time the sun sets. The certainty of a return diminishes the longing for Ora ... Thank you, Morgan! :) Susana
A season in the smile - We leave from a deserted city as if we left anything behind. As if it was possible. We are too human for such a venture and the maximum we allow ourselves to is pretend forgetfulness. Pretend forgetfulness. We move in the direction of Davos with the constant threat of rain and if we want its absence, what is there for us is to ascend to the clouds that invite us to the ground. Above the clouds, the Alps, where we slip back into Italy. Incredible rock carpets and green-life make the fire mist that seems to hamper them from violence. The trip could well have been done in a lost train because the destination is a station where the smile of Morgan is born, our eternal Machinist. He built a stage in the garden where the candles on each table lean to the wind that runs over the lights hanging from the vines that adorn it. Wolves came from the mountains: Stefano Daniela, Paolo, and Umberto ... passengers of this machinist that accompanies us with his steel gaze. An expected return ... João Rui

Ora, Itália 29.08.2010 - Morning in Aur-Ora! :) So beautiful! Surrounded by mountains of green and oxygen.The building that now houses the Piccolo Teatro was once a railway station, which gives lots of charm and charisma to this place. It was not by chance that we christened the Morgan Silvestri the Machinist!During the morning there was time to rest and to record some videos "on the road" with the Machinist (who is also a musician) behind and in front of the camera! Who has attended a concert knows that Joao Rui tells many stories and episodes of our tour involving innocuous incidents with police. The Carabinieri in Italy, have a special place in our memories, a very special place near the image of the Bad wolf! : P But in Ora even the Carabinieri are friendly and communicative people, and they agreed to take a group photo with us! : D fantastic! If one day the three of us arrive at a consensus to this effect, we will post here this memorable family photo! ;) Susana
Ora, Italy 28.08.2010 - Inside, the Aur-Ora, Arci's Association, is a very cozy space! And the friendliness of Morgan and Agostino perfectly complement this sense of comfort! Aside from the concert hall, where we played in February, it also has a toy library and a reading room, an exhibition hall and the jam sessions bar and a terrace. Soon we will share with you some images (video) from inside the Piccolo Teatro. Wait!;) Susana
Ora, Italy 28.08.2010 - If we dawned in the Alps, we were watching the sunset in Ora where our dear friend Morgan was already waiting for us, with the stage set between the new flavor of the grapes and the last rays of sun. The 1st time we were here in February we played the "Piccolo Teatro" inside the building, but we are in August and one must enjoy it before the snow returns. Susana
Return to the Alps 28.08.2010 - rise. rise. rise. sharp right. Even sharper to the left . And another left. And right again. And left. 3000 meters and deep breathing. wishing to tast the fresh water from the springs in the end (or beginning?) of the world. Meander. down. down. down. meander. Jorri at the wheel, the eternal captain of this ship. Joao Rui and I amazed, between interjections of astonishment, with cameras in hand, trying to record for posterity what it is possible in a moving van. Here are some of those records. Susana

Of the road - How is the road? Well, a moment before rushing into it, we realize how much we will miss the sea. And most of all, the people who will not follow us but inside the chest. As if it was the vertigo of longing Then, one takes balance and moves without fear. The road is long, winding and it will break your heart, because half stays where the road is born and the other, because your hands are nothing without him goes with you. João Rui
Bern, Switzerland 27.08.2010 – From St. Gallen to Bern, the spectacle of green plains, the harmony of colors and shapes of which we imagined in Switzerland. It’s still early, we got to Musigbistrot where the smile of the Brazilian Andrea Azzi was already waiting! It is so comforting to find brothers when one is speaking for so many days away from the roots! :) Our tour guide showed us her space - Musigbistrot was once a residence of jazz musicians who gathered there to play and live. We can imagine perfectly this past, because Andrea undertook the effort to continue to make that huge and comfortable house, always with open windows onto the garden, a space for art, culture and gatherings! The promise is to return to play, learn more about Bern, and of course taking a family picture with our lovely hostess! :) Thanks, Andrea! Susana.
Return of the rain - With eyes still fixed on the lie of the heart: if tomorrow didn’t open her eyes, the secrets that lurk beneath the skin would be so many that they would open again only to close with even more violence. It began raining here in St Gallen, Switzerland, through the window where the trees invite us to leave. Perhaps it is the storm that was looking for our embrace at the border of Poland.
Joao Rui
St Gallen, Switzerland 26.08.2010 - After Stuttgart, we headed to the pretty town of St. Gallen, Switzerland. One of the most fascinating things of being in a tour is waking in the morning and be sure that we are facing another day full of good surprises that await us. We always know that we’ll have a new city, a new country, new people, new delicious meals ( eheheh!), a new audience and to culminate the day, a concert where we’ll will strip the soul, on behalf of the Wolf ... At Cult Bar, St Gallen, we found all this:) This time, Mike was the friendly host who cooked for us and opened the doors of this place of such a familiar environment! Another concert marked by intimacy and the warm silences of the public... But the surprises did not end here, because the night was spent at the home of Roy that made us feel truly privileged. After a long night, between conversations and glasses of red wine, Roy awoke at dawn to knead bread for our breakfast! You may drool, yes! After all, how many bands are entitled to all this?! Thank you, Roy! Thanks, Mike! :). Susana

Stuttgart 21 - As we approached the border of Poland with Germany, the clouds that rose before us, tumbled against each other; they brought with them the storm to where we were moving. Silent. No thunder nor secret. The road led us through Leipzig, not because the path was shorter in distance, but for other musings and a glaring problem ... "Café Galão" is the name of the club where our host was waiting: Rainer. Why a Portuguese name so far from the sea? Ancient history of echoes, without the physical presence of sailor from those waves. Today there is a strange noise in the streets of Stuttgart. A "rumore". We follow Rainer to Stuttgart 21, the old railway station that in the dead of night, the government decided to destroy with an unfair contract. 20 years of dust from machines tearing up the gardens and trees surrounding Stuttgart 21. People flock in increasing numbers and it’s more wrinkles than the voice of youth who come here to put the body against the sword of the law "these are not your trees, these are our trees," it is not your Stuttgart 21, it is our Stuttgart 21". A vigil of passion that will extend through the night. The grids that the forces of authority placed around the old station, is where the wind caresses thousands of sheets of paper and love notes of anger and farewell from the people that posted them. And I felt a chill, as if I was again in the shadow of the arch of the house of Giulietta. But the heart that hangs on these railings is the spark of good in the fire of evil. Good luck my friends, I hope you win. Shaken with this turmoil, the concert today that was the first in the Vaterland is an elixir of forgetfulness to all who came to know the wolf. Thank Kleon, Stefanie, Rainer. Thank you my good friends. Thanks Rainer. Joao Rui
Stuttgart, Germany 25.08.2010 - It is said that Germans are cold and reserved, not a bias we found in the city of Stuttgart!The concert was intimate, warm and cozy with silences. The After Party was very childish, with Rainer and Kleon (myspace.com / anymusicgroup, better new world) behind the wheel of a photo session anachronistically halloweeneshy and great fun! :) Susana

Dziękuję - How often dost thou think: how I wished blindness, to not know what I'm going to leave behind when I move away from here. And a voice from cries from my sea to Poland: tell this town, my second mother, I'm still her child. João Rui

Stuttgart, Germany 25.08.2010 - In Stuttgart, we played at Galão Cafe, a bright and quiet space where they serve good food and good music. Rainer is the captain of this ship, and although we does not respect traffic lights at 4am, during the day he led us safely through his city and was a fantastic tour guide! Susana
Wien? - We continue on the path between the green landscapes of the immense green that is born in Slovenia and ends here in Vienna, Austria.I suppose the force of the impact that a city has on us depends on the roads where we stumble to the dazzling. And so, today without even time to delight with a strudel or a Sacher pie, for us, Wien is Christian. A musician in love with the sound of the voice that came from the Mediterranean and came to the wolf through the echoes of Corridonia. Thank you, our good friend. We leave the Inclusive Theater Group and their reservoir dogs behind and move forward. Also thank you: Uli, Sigi, and Claudia. We’ll meet later. Joao Rui

Kot Volk - Ljubljana is a name of a butterfly of lost flight;
and as I walk from street to street, I find the pieces of your torned heart.
João Rui

Il rumore de la vespa - These are the last hours in which we speak Italian. At least for ten days, since the return to Italy is already promised. The next five concerts are in five different countries. But before leaving Montefano, under a light that lights the quiet pastures that receive it. The Drama Emperor band open us the doors of their house and people come in increasing numbers until there is almost no grass for the wolf to run. We took balance and advanced to the darkness. Shortly after we left, heading for Slovenia, also through the road that tears the darkness. I still hear the laughter of Eva, Marco, Mauro, Cinzia and the rumore of Andrea's Vespa is still here with us. João Rui
La passione delle rovine - Can you hear it? It is the old town that breathes beneath this one, that bends when its name is heard. Macerata. The heart keeps secrets that I do not understand and that return even when I do not invite them to me. When we came here for the first time, the sun was escaping to the shores of the Adriatic and let us in the arms of those who did not know us. This time it is different. Perhaps the entire return is different, maybe that is its nature. As Andrea explained to me, the name Macerata comes from the word "ruins" because this city was built on the ruins of another, an elder that is now a proud root of the smiles that recall her. It was this smile that came to receive us today. The smile of Eva, of Mauro, Giulia, Marco, Andrea, Cinzia, Fidelia and many others of whom I do not remember the name or did not get to know but of whom I already know the eyes. They told me that it’s been four years since they saw so many people here in this concert venue. The cars parked along the street lay on a huge queue to come and hear the wolf on the slopes of Sasso d'Italia. This mountain from which I can see my heart. Perhaps it was this: the sound of many steps which have awakened the old city ruins. Before playing the song Like The Wolf, I usually explain the concept of the album: the breaking of the illusion. This time, like never before and probably never again, in the precise moment that I said in my poor Italian “and then you realize that the wolf is just a dog", In the stage between us and the public came a dog who calmly walked up in front of my microphone to the center stage. Words failed me. I still have no words. How I wished not to wake up again if this was a dream. He looked at us and then returned quietly to the darkness from where he came, from the left, which is where the heart does not sleep. Shortly after the concert, when the roar of applause dissipated through the cracks of the stage, we found one of the faces who knew us from the first time we were here in February. She was also transformed by this time that separated us from Italy. Her skin even more, now adorned with the sun that illuminates the cover of Like The Wolf. The same sun, painted in black under the skin, near the blood. Forever. Another voice told me that she hadn’t climbed this mountain for so long because of the fears that inhabited these hills and that she came here today to address them. Like the Wolf. I told her what my mother told me: that through the rest of your life we will find wolves. Different ones. Always. And now that sleep is calling we hear the voice that sings from the ruins. Joao Rui
Macerata From the 16 to the 20.08.2010 - If the natural landscape of Italy always leaves us spellbound, people conquer us with a relentless heart! The first time we played near Macerata, in Corridonia, the club SOMS was really special. The power of the concert, the place, the talks and smiles have left their marks. We are back. It was like a homecoming to a place where we feel wanted! Latinos as well, our friends gave us the pleasuer of the delicious Italian cuisine. Eva and Marco, Cinzia and Mauro, Andrea and Chiara, Giulia and Luca, all cooked for us, and amici, we got out of there a bit heavier! ;) Sunana

Macerata From the 16 To the 20.08.2010 - Two concerts in Macerata (One at Sasso d'Itália and the other in a country house, somewhere in the middle of nowhere) they allowed us to enjoy this wonder place. The old city, a charming labyrinth of alleys and old buildings, must be responsible for many torn necks. well, we escaped from this collateral effect, but fortunately not from the spell of the stone. Susana.
Alps 16.08.2010 - "Awake, you're in the Alps!" My two wolves drove all night. Between coffees and vigils, we crossed France and we dawned with the Alps. We saw them slowly changing colors in their maximum splendor. Inside, the arrival to Italy was prepared with the reading of the Portuguese-Italian conversational guide. Maximum score for Joao Rui!
Susana
Waiting for the sea - After the roar of applause returned to silence, the trip brought us to the coast of Bretagne, Binic.A Beach of sad boats awaiting the waves to break through the walls overlooking the sea. They expect stories of the whalers that will not return. As we will not stop here. With the night hiding the weariness, we went through France in one breath. At dawn the silence of the Alps where the fog descended gently the rugged hills of the border to Italy, was waiting for us. The trees changed, the colors and sounds and so did our language. Maybe we have changed too. Time to time we remember the words that we brought from here in February. Now, in Bologna, near the Piazza del Nettuno, one hears the footsteps of tourists that are received by the two towers that recall that balance is all a matter of perspective. In two hours we are in Sasso d'Italia. Meeting of friends who met here. Amici mei ... Joao Rui