Today's Song of the Day, as chosen by DJ Morgan, host of the Variety Mix on Saturday afternoons, is "Deixem O Morto Morrer" by Ana Lua Caiano, from the 2024 album Vou Ficar neste Quadrado on Glitterbeat Records.
This week’s Song of the Day picks were chosen by DJ Morgan, spotlighting artists she discovered at the 2023 Trans Musicales festival in Rennes, Brittany, France. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to catch exclusive performances from some of these artists, filmed at the Conservatoire de Rennes Auditorium just for KEXP.
Based out of Lisbon, Ana Lua Caiano combines traditional Portuguese music with modern electronica on her debut album Vou Ficar Neste Quadrado, out April 5th via Glitterbeat. Ana studied classical music for eight years, and then studied jazz for four years — a pedigree that can be heard in her complex compositions. Today's Song of the Day examines a man's death, and in a Google-translated press statement, she states, "as the song progresses, sadness becomes joy and the tragedy of a death is seen in a more positive perspective. The song, despite having this strong and apparently sad theme, undergoes an inversion and is sung, from a certain point onwards, with enthusiasm, revealing itself to be an energetic, rhythmic and vibrant song.”
Check out today's Song of the Day below, and watch Ana's December 2023 KEXP performance below that, filmed at the Conservatoire de Rennes Auditorium in Rennes, France, during Trans Musicales 2023.
