When I thought it was time to record my first CD, I rehearsed a lot with the musicians that Sergio Hinds, from "O Terço" – who started the production project for this work – recruited for me: Beto Corrêa (keyboards), Max Robert (bass), Daniel Baeder (drums). Ednaldo Inácio (flute and sax), Cláudio Cambé (trumpet) and Eloy Porto Neto (trombone) joined us; unfortunately, Eloy left us in 2024—and I pay tribute to him here). Edu Luke came to play guitar and vocals with us. Each one was from a different part of the state of São Paulo, an adventure on the road.

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I thought it was essential to find a sound first, so we did a lot of rehearsals. It was a great thing, I loved rehearsing because I felt like I was in a laboratory, playing at creating with people I loved, everyone also discovering themselves as musicians. I wanted to translate at least a part of everything that had been fermenting inside me for many years—since forever. It was very difficult, a process of adaptation and reconciliation between what is inside and what, in the end, materializes. But the atmosphere of these discoveries was very good, so in the end everything worked out, one way or another. I soon learned that life is a process and only a process.

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I put together the CD's repertoire based on the four elements. Even though it was a somewhat cliché idea, I felt that it really summed up what I wanted to convey. My thing was not —never was—just music for music's sake; I believed that there was a "communication of different worlds" to be made through music. That's what I was really trying to do.

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I chose songs that represented as much as possible everything I had been through; I believed that my work should always be original. I chose songs that I composed when I was about 16 years old, from the earliest ones to the most recent ones.