I’A’V – Lovers & Lollypops, Porto, 18.06.2026.

I’A’V – Lovers & Lollypops, Porto, 18.06.2026.

words: Paulo Carmona (edited by Raquel Pinheiro)
photos: Ricardo Silva

Everything seemed suited to the project’s sound. The atmosphere, the space, the audience, and the time of the show.

It was just after 7.45pm when I’A’V entered the venue to present one of the most original Portuguese projects I have heard in recent years.

They came to present their first work: Volatile Poem, and I want to begin with the instruments used: cello, transverse flute, samplers and voice.

The sonic world of this project, featuring Inês Malheiro, Arianna Casellas and Violeta Azevedo, brings us fresh, atmospheric, spiritual and soothing environments. They navigate calm waters of musical poetry, blended with soft colours and gentle breezes.

Very well prepared and perfectly coordinated with each other, they create a symbiosis of musicality, with richly crafted arrangements and beautifully explored silences where the music breathes and lives by itself. The vocalisations evoke the songs of sirens: calm and seductive.

At the end of the enchantment, I had the opportunity to speak with the members of the project, who shared with me that when they came together to create this work, they were aware that they were three people with different musical structures and distinct languages. It was through this fusion of experiences and life journeys that they naturally connected, creating their own identity.

Without pressure, without preconceived ideas. They allowed the music to flow naturally, and the project’s sound took shape.

A toast to symbiosis! It is from ideas and fearless experimentation that things like this emerge.

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