Battle of one: Fish Magic’s releases 3rd album with a great help from his friends
After releasing two albums in two years, “Songs From the Night Shift” (2015) and “Sky High” (2016), Mario Quinderé needed a break from his one-man-band Fish Magic.
“The problem is that I didn’t stop composing, I was piling songs up”. In 2017, Fish Magic released the single “Neon Love“, mostly electronic and an easier way to put songs out without depending on others.
But it did not work. For him, the natural process of recording depends on friends, companionship.
On this third album, “Just a Light Away”, Mario grouped with Régis Damasceno (Velouria, Mr Spaceman, OPorto, Cidadão Instigado) to select amongst the pile of songs which would be the 10 tracks and they recorded together, as it happened in the former 2 albums.
“Just a Light Away” also had a helping hand on the mixing for two songs (“Do not Come Knocking” and “Low Tide”) by drummer Clayton Martin (Cidadão Instigado, Bárbara Eugênia) and also the help of Ivan Bicudo (Sexy Fi) playing keyboards in “Anywhere High”.
This is Fish Magic’s album with more guitars to date. Lloyd Cole, New Order and Smtihs’ influences are still there, side by side with surf melodies that might appeal to INXS, Bolshoi and Pelvs fans.
(photo by Paula Barrene)
