“I’m curious to see how much that will be different this time around, and all these years later.”
340ml, perhaps your favorite band from your favorite musician, have announced that they will be officially returning to the stage in 2025 for the first time in over a decade.
But bassist Rui Soeiro jokes that their fans should expect to see a bunch of old guys complaining about back problems during their performance.
“[It’s] It's hard to say what will happen. Because we're going into this situation where we don't know what's going to happen, and that's how we're going to react when things happen. It's the same process we use when we sit down in the studio in rehearsal to think about how we want to perform our songs in 2025,” Soeiro said. The Citizen.
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340ml revival
On Wednesday morning, news broke that the musical ensemble 340ml will reunite for an exclusive one-off tour of South Africa in March 2025.
Members: drummer Paulo Jorge Chibanga, guitarist Tiago Correia-Paulo, vocalists Pedro Pinto and Soeiro will perform in Johannesburg and Cape Town.
Joburg Leg will be held on Saturday 15th March 2025, followed by Cape Town on Sunday 16th March 2025.
The tour has not yet been announced, but will be held at outdoor, family-friendly venues.
According to Correia-Paulo, their last public performance was 12 years ago.
“But in early 2020, right before the first coronavirus hit, we did an event together once. But for some reason, it didn't really feel like a reunion, but rather an event. I felt like I was doing it.”
The tour will coincide with the festival season in the southern part of the continent, but the band did not want to reveal whether they would be performing at festivals such as Bushfire Festival.
“It's hard to say at this stage. We're going to be completely focused on these first shows. They're the reason we're doing this. There's no other agenda. But we have some “Maybe I have a secret… someday, somewhere,” Correia-Paulo said.
Regarding the tour itself, Soeiro said: Well, that's how we always did everything in the past. Just follow it. We're going to focus on the song and do our best to bring it back as honestly as possible. ”
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We're not together anymore
340ml's esteemed body of work means the group has had no shortage of performance offers during their hiatus.
“We've all been individually cornered by people asking why we're not doing the show anymore,” Chibanga said.
Chibanga said one reason for this is that people don't realize they are no longer together.
“I still get weird questions like, 'Hey, when's the next show?'” It's even worse when the four of us just hang out or go out to lunch. People assume that if we're hanging out, we're rehearsing somewhere or getting ready for a show. ”
Contrary to what we see on music digital platforms, 340ml has not officially released a body of work since its 2008 release. Sorry for being late.
“In 2010 and 2011, we spent some time in the studio recording with the intention of making a new album, but it never really worked out. Those songs are collecting digital dust somewhere. . But to be fair, I don't think they were that good,” Pinto asserted.
Music from 2008 onwards is just a digital release of some of the older material.
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the right time
This reunion show is a sign that the prayers of die-hard 340ml fans have been answered, and 2025 seems like the right time for the four members to share the stage.
“We wanted it to be special, with a certain level of production, and by people we felt we could work with in terms of what to deliver and how to do it. It was put together,” said the laid-back Chibanga.
“I also want to know what 340ml will sound like in 2025.”
Chibanga said even when they were together, they always had a way of changing things up. Whether it's the sound or the arrangement.
“I’m curious to see how much that will be different this time around, and all these years later.”
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living
340ml is a strong group of individuals who have independent lives and livelihoods outside of the hip jams they make together.
During his time away from the band stage, Koheia-Paulo has worked closely with Bongeziwe Mabandla.
Correia-Paulo still works in the music industry as a producer and performer, and has also built a career in the film industry as a composer, occasional editor, and even director.
Soeiro has managed some of his family's businesses, invested in his children, and managed to start a small record revival in Maputo, among other things.
Hipster and easy-going, Chibanga is currently involved in the industrial sector, but his passion remains in the realm of music and culture through his business khzula, which focuses on events, communications, book publishing and digital distribution. We are active.
Chibanga founded the Azgo Music Festival 13 years ago and is also responsible for the incubator (X-Hub) that fosters many arts and culture projects.
Pinto is the director of the Fernando Leite Couto Foundation, a prestigious cultural center and gallery in the heart of Maputo.
Soeiro said he hopes to recreate some of that old 340ml stage energy when the 2025 tour begins.
“As much as your back allows. You can see that these old man jokes are a big part of this whole process. We're always joking and we don't take ourselves too seriously. Like the Mozambique template. So we can probably expect that a little bit.”
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