Hope everyone is having a great start to the week. SAUDADE UNPLUGGED has recently been released! Thanks so much for your support, means a lot 🥰xx
I wrote this song whilst living in Salvador. It's about the journey of when I decided to get over my first love, despite our intense connection. Saudade means longing, loss, desire etc, & I felt captures my experience & feelings more fully in Portuguese than in English. Sometimes love sadly just doesn't work out, even if you both want it to. Factors like geographical distance, family responsibilities, & being at different points in your lives all play a part.
Check out the new music video on my YouTube. Filmed in the absolutely stunning national park, Chapada dos Verdadeiros near Brasilia, Brazil. I'd highly recommend a visit once it is safe to do so - incredible waterfalls and wilderness scenery as you'll see from the video. Produced by the amazing @anajuliaribas_ Hope you enjoy!
This is the original unplugged version (just vocals & ukulele). A reworked, more upbeat Brazilian Popular Music MPB arrangement (with guitar, bass, keys, percussion & flute) was released on the 26th January 2021. Instrumental arrangement recorded & produced in Salvador by two incredibly talented Brazilian friends @undersoncunha & @pedrofonseca.77 It was important to me to work with Brazilians on this, as I wanted the music to reflect a lot of the inner processing I did whilst living in the stunning Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, as well as honouring local talent.
lyrics
Lyrics: English translation
(NB some things just don’t translate fully, but you get the gist :)
Chorus
You leave me longing for you
Still missing you
I’m left aching for you
V1
Today I saw you here yet again
Until what point is love like this worthwhile,
If we can’t be together?
V2
The feelings I have still haven’t changed
Our passion has changed me,
it’s dismantled me with words
After so many years, I still can't forget you
V3
Goodbye my love, go, leave me
It’s better you don’t pursue me anymore
I need to rip out this desire
Chorus 2
I'm going to erase this desire
I need to break free
And extract this longing out of me
credits
released January 18, 2021
Lyrics, Ukulele & Vocals: Emma Saville
Produced: Anderson Cunha
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