Lavoisier are Patricia and Roberto from Portugal.

“In Nature, there are no losses; there is no creation, only transformations…” Lavoisier.

Lead by the spirit of ”Tropicalismo”, we try to see the music not only as a matter of individuality, but as a full sense of awareness and presence in a world that we’re living in right now, and that already existed before.
“Antropofagia” (an act of cannibalism practiced between ancient tribes all over the globe or the act of eating someone of the own species) is one of the arguments presented by Oswaldo de Andrade to be representing a modernist movement in Brasil. Oswaldo de Andrade, a Brazilian poet, in the early 1920’s wrote the manifest of “Antropofagia”, trying to idealize the identity of multicultural, multiethnic people such as the Brazilians. He defended the theory that Brazil no longer should be a country with one singular identity but one of many, and compares the agglomeration of cultural behaviors to the act of cannibalism of ancient’s tribes in Brazil.
The act of “Antropofagia” in Brazil contained a peculiar ritual: every brave warrior that was captured by the Indigenas would be arrested and kept with the best treatment that he could possibly have, and therefore strength and bravery would grow inside the warrior until his painful death. The idea behind the ritual was that once you ate the warrior, you would not only eat his flesh, but also his soul and his knowledge.
In the beginning of the 1970’s a movement was growing in Brazil, among it Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil. They took antropofagia as an engine to what they called “Tropicalismo” – as they were “eating” European, American and African music, and therefore instead of having a pure musical identity, they had their own musical “melting pot”.

The project Lavoisier, was created through the inner need of making music, sung both in Portuguese and English, and fulfills its principal purpose and basic instinct: to make music.
Lavoisier are a Portuguese couple, influenced by each other and the whole world of sensations that music can bring along. With the spirit that was left by the “Tropicalistas”, they aim towards musical expression with no fears and no preconceptions about anything.