{"id":190920,"date":"2025-07-11T11:46:30","date_gmt":"2025-07-11T17:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/errr-magazine.com\/?p=190920"},"modified":"2025-08-19T10:03:43","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T16:03:43","slug":"rafael-stonne-songs-that-are-written-with-the-skin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/errr-magazine.com\/english\/rafael-stonne-canciones-que-se-escriben-con-la-piel\/","title":{"rendered":"Rafael Stonne: songs that are written with the skin"},"content":{"rendered":"

There are artists who are born from a silent room, with a guitar, a trembling voice and an open wound. Rafael Stonne is one of them. From S\u00e3o Paulo, this young Brazilian musician has built an intimate and enveloping universe where folk, lo-fi, emotional pop and even piseiro fit. All from the radical honesty of someone who sings what happens to him, what he doesn't understand, what hurts.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

With his new album Dentro Do Meu Peito, Rafael shows a creative maturity that does not leave out tenderness. It is an album made of flesh and atmosphere, where the body and the ethereal meet to talk about love, loss, mourning, connection.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this conversation, designed especially for those in Mexico who still don't know him, Stonne talks about his beginnings, the silences he needs to compose, his favorite poets (and friends), his love for C. Tangana and Silvio Rodr\u00edguez, and what he hopes to find in this part of the world. It is an interview about making music as one who delivers an open letter to the heart of another.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

-Pamela RM<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your music is born in Brazil, in Portuguese, with that intimate and confessional viol\u00e3o. What do you think can touch Mexican audiences, even without speaking their language?<\/strong>
I think what can touch the Mexican public is the truth that I bring with my art and my work. It's so intimate that people come to my profile and feel comfortable to talk and tell me something. They feel part of it, and indeed they are!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the CASA EP (2015) to CAPA (2019) and the album Dentro Do Meu Peito (2024, how do you feel you have evolved emotionally and sonically in that journey?<\/strong>
CASA comes from my first contact with music and music production, which was all done in my room. CAPA brings a bit of that intimacy, but in a way that I'm more open to try new things, like producing remotely and with electronic elements, although still inside the cocoon, let's say, haha.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then comes my most recent work, Dentro Do Meu Peito, which is a more complete album, it was a process of a year and a half until it was born. This album shows more than ever my evolution as an artist, both emotionally - where I expose my wounds - and sonically, where I explore different genres such as piseiro, pop, rap, and I even dared to sing in Spanish in the song \u201cMeu xod\u00f3\u201d, which is one of my favorites. I say that this work is more mature, both visually, as well as in the music, lyrics and even in the final decisions I made for the album.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCanceriano\u201d, \u201cS\u00f3 o Tempo\u201d, \u201cPede Pra Ficar\u201d: they are songs with strong marks of MPB, folk and lo-fi. If you had to choose one that most represents you today, which one would it be and why?<\/strong>
Of those three, the one that represents me the most is \u201cCancerian\u201d, because I am a Cancerian and because it is very rich to play in the shows.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The rhythm and soundscape are often born from the environment. How does your life in S\u00e3o Paulo influence your music? And what do you hope to find in Mexico to nurture your next stage?<\/strong>
Although I live in S\u00e3o Paulo, I am further away from the center, so my environment is calmer, quieter. That allows me to listen better to what is inside. I think that quietness helps me to compose with more presence, with more space to feel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The city still crosses me, of course, but in a more subtle way: like the light of the sunset on distant buildings, the distant sound of movement, time passing slowly in the quieter neighborhoods. That less obvious, more introspective S\u00e3o Paulo ends up being the backdrop for my songs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, in Mexico, I hope to find other shades of sensitivity. It is a country full of soul, color and intensity, and I love that. I have the feeling that there I will have access to a more spiritual part of my creation, more dedicated. I also want to allow myself to be touched by people, especially music artists.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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