Torto are no longer, but they have transformed. Jorge Coelho, Jorge Queijo, and Miguel Ramos began from the same primal function of rock — the equation of guitar, bass, and drums — but moved in a new direction within the territory they had meticulously explored in their previous life. That direction is defined as OtrotortO, a palindrome that challenges the circular functioning of musical structures with the accumulated experience of those who can live idly, who feel no urgency to depart, yet live with the desire to arrive.

OtrotortO contests the composition of rock at an atomic level, the relationship between its elements, and brings it into their new record, Letargia em Ré Menor . It is an agreement sealed by three gentlemen on how to progress through a jointly mapped territory, where the variation of states and the management of material instabilities are handled with both meticulousness and seasoned ease. With surgical precision, OtrotortO shift from fluid moments — sudden, almost gaseous expansions — to compressions of high energy levels, revealing ascetic, near-painful moments of tension. Louder passages collapse in on themselves and become studies in self-control, revealing strength through intent and method as opposed to lack of command; the explosive moments are releases of tension that sustain and prolong the entire structure through time.

Letargia em Ré Menor is OtrotortO’s sonic metaphor for the power of comprehension, of restraint, of gravity as a force, and of the effects of surrendering to it by free will — using it as an amplifier of intentions, of movement, and of the consequences of its absence. It is also an entryway into this new movement within a territory they have presented to us throughout their shared activity: a demonstration of their possibilities and their paths, one that will take on a distinct but complementary expression in a live setting.