Stream & buy Time for T – ‘Simple Songs for Complicated Times’
With recent world events halting the usual busy summer months of shows, frontman Tiago Saga decided to set up a little studio in a remote caravan in the south west of Portugal to record some songs that he had been meaning to lay down for a while. Initially planned to be a super stripped down EP, it quickly turned into a big project including the other members of the band and collaborations from other artists living everywhere, from Geneva to Lisbon, Madrid to Porto. “The technology was available for us to make the EP this way and, though the distance has it’s obvious disadvantages when recording music together, it also allowed us a different creative process. It’s the first time we have worked this way but probably not the last”.
‘Simple Songs for Complicated Times’ is out now.
‘Manteiga’ was the first single from the aptly named EP, given the times we have collectively been going through recently.
Tracklisting:
Fire On The Mountain featuring. Club del Río
Brighton (Clumsy)
Captivity
Manteiga
Best Behaviour
Qualquer Coisa
The video for ‘Fire On The Mountain’ featuring. Club del Río was released the same day as the EP. Here’s a little background on this song:
“It was written after the huge fires in the mountains of Monchique a couple of years ago, where many people I know lost everything to the fires and just down the road people were on their holidays, taking selfies on the beach. I found this a juxtaposition impossible to ignore. Whilst I was recording my parts for this song in a caravan in the Barão S. João woods a month ago, another large fire broke out close by. We packed all our things and were ready to leave, the winds blew in the other direction so we were safe but sadly many people and animals lost their homes just around the corner.
An average of 140.000 hectares are burnt every year in Portugal, making it Europe’s number one country in terms of fire destruction in the XXI century.
Let’s raise awareness about this issue. The main reasons for these fires are mismanagement of forests, monoculture (eucalyptus in particular), global warming and lack of investment in the fire fighters (almost all voluntary).” – Tiago Saga