"The comb used by the mouras (supernatural beings in Portuguese and Galician folklore) is a symbol of sensuality and femininity, but beyond that, combs were part of grave goods since the Bronze Age. This is why the comb as an object is related to the afterlife and durability. Similarly, thanks to recording technologies, sound, and especially voices, have become durable goods that transcend the lives of the people to whom they belonged. By singing and recording ourselves, we cease to be mortal and enter the plane of eternity.
In this track, a modification of Taylor Brooks' MAX MSP patch "Tensed Computer Improviser" was used, which, through machine learning, associates an input, in this case my voice, with fragments of a previously recorded sound bank in real-time. This sound bank contains recordings of friends, animals, urban sounds, and a conversation with my deceased grandmother. This device is also used in Poço."

ިᛁ⸜⸍ᛁᛔᛂᚿᛐᛂᛁ⸜⸍ᛁ

Cada pente
era como cada voz
Do berce à tumba
Acompanhava
Sobrevivendo
Os nossos ossos
Em silêncio
Em silêncio
Agora que as vozes
Duram igual
Que os nossos pentes
Os pentes
Canta comigo
Canta comigo
Se queres ter tempo
Canta comigo
Para sermos eternos

ިᛁ⸜⸍ᛁᛔᛂᚿᛐᛂᛁ⸜⸍ᛁ

Each comb
Was like each voice
From the cradle to the grave
It accompanied us
Surviving
Our bones
In silence
In silence
Now that the voices
Last equally
Our combs
The combs
Sing with me
Sing with me
If you want time
Sing with me
To be eternal

-ˋˏ ༻❁༺ ˎˊ- 

Cover Art by YESSi PERSE
Picture by Xesús Búa
Logo Sculpture and Sigil by 3.lll.lll
Mastered by Juait
Mixed by crnds
Music, lyrics and production by MOURAE

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MOURAE - Pente

"Gold is a sign of abundance and, by extension, fertility. In stories where the moura appears as the guardian of a treasure, she usually offers it, but it's always a mistake to choose it because this offering symbolizes the unattainable. This track is a reflection on how perfection cannot be achieved and how it's okay to embrace error.
The greatest treasure that MOURAE guards, and which is a symbol of fortune and change, is vulnerability. As a farewell song, it invites to embrace vulnerability as a path to finding a healthier future."

⸍ᛁ╵ˎ╮◟ˎᛐᛂᛍᚮᚢᚱᚮ⸍ᛁ╵ˎ╮◟ˎ

Ouro líquido
Guardado num cofre
Cai a fortaleza
Queda todo em desordem

Os restos dum barco
Ruínas de cobre
E derrete-se o gelo
Ai e brotam as flores

Sou imensa
Pasodoble
Falar contigo é sempre uma sorte

Custa-me todo
Custa-me nada
Despida de corpo
Despida de alma
Sei que o que guardo
não serve na estrada
Por isso o que canto
é a minha nana

Custa-me todo
Custa-me nada
Despida de corpo
Despida de alma
Sei que o que guardas
não serve na rua
Canta-me um verso
Da vida tua

⸍ᛁ╵ˎ╮◟ˎᛐᛂᛍᚮᚢᚱᚮ⸍ᛁ╵ˎ╮◟ˎ

Liquid gold
Kept in a chest
The fortress falls
Everything is in disarray

The remains of a boat
Copper ruins
And the ice melts
Oh, and the flowers bloom

I am immense
Pasodoble
Talking to you is always a stroke of luck

It costs me everything
It costs me nothing
Stripped of body
Stripped of soul
I know what I keep
Is no use on the road
So what I sing
Is my lullaby

It costs me everything
It costs me nothing
Stripped of body
Stripped of soul
I know what you keep
Is no use on the street
Sing me a verse
Of your life

-ˋˏ ༻❁༺ ˎˊ- 

Cover Art by YESSi PERSE
Picture by Xesús Búa
Logo Sculpture and Sigil by 3.lll.lll
Mastered by Juait
Mixed by crnds
Music, lyrics and production by MOURAE

MOURAE - Tesouro

"The moura appears in many legends as a being with tremendous strength, capable of carrying enormous stones on her head and building dolmens and other colossal rock formations. This facet of the moura as a builder is interesting to relate bifocally with those who came before and those who will come.
Megalito (Megalith) is a tribute to many trans women referents.
The song's lines speak and think from Marsha P. Johnson, Wendy Carlos, Laura Bugalho, SOPHIE and many other lesser known women who paved the way in trans activism and electronic music, and pass the baton to the trans women who will come.
Because trans and queer people have always existed and, contrary to the wishes of many, they will always exist."

⠃ᛁᛍ⸝⸌ᛁ⸍ˎᛉᛂᚵᛆᛚᛁᛐᚮ⠃ᛁᛍ⸝⸌ᛁ⸍ˎ

Nós já estávamos aqui
Antes de que
Ti pensaras vir

Quem tirou a primeira pedra?
Quem foi quem de deixá-la aí?
Quem empurrou para poder movê-la?
Quem foi quem de criar-me a mim?

Os nossos ossos são de madeira
Táboas duma casa a construir
Uma manhã que de ontem chega
Sintetizando sempre o porvir

Caras compradas numa tenda
Mamoas feitas de puro vivir
Imos estar ainda que não queiras
Existimos antes ca ti

Feitas de imateriais maneiras
Com o futuro sempre por vir
Somos na luta as primeiras
E seremos as últimas em sair

⠃ᛁᛍ⸝⸌ᛁ⸍ˎᛉᛂᚵᛆᛚᛁᛐᚮ⠃ᛁᛍ⸝⸌ᛁ⸍ˎ

We were already here
Before you thought to come

Who threw the first stone?
Who left it there?
Who pushed to move it?
Who raised (and created) me?

Our bones are made of wood
Boards of a house to build
A morning that comes from yesterday
Always synthesizing the future

Faces bought in a shop
Mámoas (burial mounds) made of pure living
We will be here even if you don't want us
We existed before you

Made of immaterial ways
With the future always to come
We are the first in the fight
And we will be the last to leave.

-ˋˏ ༻❁༺ ˎˊ- 

Cover Art by YESSi PERSE
Picture by Xesús Búa
Logo Sculpture and Sigil by 3.lll.lll
Mastered by Juait
Mixed by crnds
Music, lyrics and production by MOURAE

MOURAE - Megalito

"One of the many characteristics of the mouras is their ability to transform into snakes or to have relationships with these types of animals. The snake is an animal with much symbolic weight in multiple traditions. The most common, due to the evangelizing power of Christianity, is that of sin. But the symbolism that interests us is more related to gender and change. Due to its phallic shape, the snake is related to virility and the masculine, but due to its ability to dilate when swallowing, it is also related to the ability to engender and what is traditionally understood as feminine. Furthermore, the fact that it sheds its skin every year also relates it to cycles of change.
For all these reasons, this track presents and discusses the trans and non-binary experience from the perspective of the shapeshifting MOURAE who, like the snake, can shed its skin to transcend its own identity."

╵ᛁ◟ިᛁ╵ᛍᛂᚱᛔᛂᛍ╵ᛁ◟ިᛁ╵

Somos monstros mudaformas
Todas juntas nos movemos
Modeladas com argila
fungos, fangos e ferro
Ouveamos cara aos lásers
Que nos tingem de vermelho
Com as veias azuladas
E os dentes amarelos

Nem homem nem mulher
Somos serpes
Cada dia muda a pel
Sempre

Fada,
Tu e tuas amigas
Estades convidadas
Deixa que teu corpo se transforme em lama
Une-te a nós nesta cova que baila
Temos pedra, ouro e espadas

Somos deusas milagrosas
Misturamos fogo e gelo
Inventamos as histórias
E os romances que queremos

Profecias luminosas
Guardando antigos segredos
Confundimos os mortais
Através dos nossos gestos

Nem homem nem mulher
Somos serpes
Cada dia muda a pel
Sempre

╵ᛁ◟ިᛁ╵ᛍᛂᚱᛔᛂᛍ╵ᛁ◟ިᛁ╵

We are shapeshifting monsters
All together we move
Modeled with clay
Fungi, slime and iron
We howl towards the lasers
That dye us red
With bluish veins
And yellow teeth

Neither man nor woman
We are serpents
Every day we shed our skin
Always

Fairy,
You and your friends
Are invited
Let your body turn to mud
Join us in this dancing cave
We have stone, gold and swords

We are miraculous goddesses
We mix fire and ice
We invent the stories
And the romances we want

Luminous prophecies
Guarding ancient secrets
We confuse mortals
Through our gestures

Neither man nor woman
We are serpents
Every day we shed our skin
Always

-ˋˏ ༻❁༺ ˎˊ- 

Cover Art by YESSi PERSE
Picture by Xesús Búa
Logo Sculpture and Sigil by 3.lll.lll
Mastered by Juait
Mixed by crnds
Music, lyrics and production by MOURAE

MOURAE - Serpes

"The well or "pía" is one of the places where mouras live. In many areas of the Atlantic, where myths related to these natural formations and beings similar to the moura exist, offerings were given for the mythological femininities to bless the harvests. It was also one of the settings where mouras offered their deals, and a possible place of death.
This space serves to discuss social depression and the capitalist realism described by Mark Fisher. A reality that seems immovable and is inscribed in our minds. Fed up with this, MOURAE denies Margaret Thatcher's phrase "there is no alternative" and shouts with rage, seeking to manifest a new future. Furthermore, the entire kick drum base of this track follows the structure of a muinheira, a traditional Galician rhythm, but using samples of SOPHIE. This is done to follow the method used by the women who preserved and cultivated the popular music of Galicia, as they took everyday things to make noise and followed rhythms they knew, thus creating an excuse for dancing. They made use of scallop shells or hoes because it was what they had nearby, and MOURAE, in the same way, uses the sounds it has nearby to pay tribute to them and, in the same way, continue the tradition from a perspective beyond conservatism."

ިˎ╵ˎᛔᚮᛍᚮ ިˎ╵ˎ

Estou atascada aqui dentro
Estou atascada aqui dentro
Estou atascada aqui dentro e não consigo sair
Estou atascada aqui dentro caindo tenho que seguir
Não hai alternativa
Não hai alternativa
Vivo num poço sem fim

Conheço este sítio
Conheço este sítio
Conheço este sítio melhor do que me conheço a mim
Conheço este sítio, escrito no corpo podo-o sentir
Não hai alternativa
Não hai alternativa
Vivo num poço sem fim

Estou farta disto
Estou farta disto
Estou farta disto, sonhemos de novo um mundo a construir
Hai alternativas
Hai alternativas
Queimemos o poço
Queimemos o poço sem fim

ިˎ╵ˎᛔᚮᛍᚮ ިˎ╵ˎ

I'm stuck in here
I'm stuck in here
I'm stuck in here and I can't get out
I'm stuck in here falling I have to keep going
There is no alternative
There is no alternative
I live in an endless well

I know this place
I know this place
I know this place better than I know myself
I know this place, written on the body I can feel it
There is no alternative
There is no alternative
I live in an endless well

I'm sick of this
I'm sick of this
I'm sick of this, let's dream again of a world to build
There are alternatives
There are alternatives
Let's burn the well
Let's burn the endless well

-ˋˏ ༻❁༺ ˎˊ- 

Cover Art by YESSi PERSE
Picture by Xesús Búa
Logo Sculpture and Sigil by 3.lll.lll
Mastered by Juait
Mixed by crnds
Music, lyrics and production by MOURAE

MOURAE - Poço

⛓𝔈𝖓𝖙𝖊𝖗 𝖙𝖍𝖊 𝕹𝖊𝖚𝖗𝖔𝕯𝖚𝖓𝖌𝖊𝖔𝖓⛓

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ᕚ2023ᕘ
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ᕚ2022ᕘ
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ᕚ2021ᕘ
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