Marisa Monte

Marisa and Dadi performed last night, September 9, 2013, at the opening of Pátio Batel, a luxe shopping center in Curitiba. 

It looks like a set from Star Trek.

Home town show. One thing seems clear from a lot of the photos I've seen of this tour: Marisa seems to be having a lot of fun doing it.

Recording "Verdade Uma Ilusão" for DVD, Grande Sala da Cidade das Artes, Rio de Janeiro, August 3, 2013. 

"Pale Blue Eyes"

Interview full of interesting tidbits 

"The idea that I had in the beginning was to have visual arts side by side with the music. This is a dialogue I have been working with for many years. I have invited artists to direct my concerts, also album covers. So in this concert I wanted to have a bigger panorama of art in this moment in Brazil, so I invited an art curator to help me choose the works. Some of them I knew already and wanted to work with, but we also did a big research to find new ones. And we also got an art director which is Batman Zavarezzi who is responsible to do the interface between the content, the work itself and the technology that we needed to be able to use the art on stage. So we had a lot of technicians and even people developing ne programs, new software for the concert, not only in the visual part but in the audio part as well there is a lot of technology. Its very nice to experience this interface of art and technology in this concert. We have a lot of new resources showing up every day and its nice to update and to learn, and show things that people have never experienced before. I am really happy to be able to travel with this project and take it to Miami and show it to everybody, Brazilians and Americans who follow my work."

Production note:

In the high-energy world of Brazilian popular music, Marisa Monte has always stood apart -- a pensive pop star more interested in making beauty than shaking booty.

In a recent phone interview from Rio, Monte said moving at a frenetic pace is not just prevalent in the recording industry. "I think it's a contemporary challenge for every human being, because we live in such a noisy world with too much information. Sometimes we don't have silence enough to listen to our inner voice, the need of our souls to follow our own speed.