Artur describes: “We make a new music to an old instrument. The diatonic accordion has some limitations, however, we try not to worry about the limitations, but we are using the capabilities. On the other hand, all of the family of accordions is associated with virtuous soloist players; we prefer to explore the expressive side of the instrument and therefore communicate through collective emotion." "In the accordion quartet the four musicians have all their individual part". As far as the instrument allows, we have now a more specified musical functions for each of the members. In early days of the band we have had a rotational role. Filipe Ricardo plays mostly the bass, Filipe Cal the harmony, Francisco Miguel the melodic counterpoint and I play melodic lines." In the beginning they played quite a lot of traditional music. On their first album ("Danças Ocultas", '96) you can find traditional music and tunes composed by Bitocas (their sound technician) and by Artur; on their second CD ("Ar", '98) you can find self composed material by all of the band members.All of them first played music in folkloric dance music groups, later they all had classical music education (Sax, Cello and Composition). Artur started playing diatonic accordion following a family tradition "The band 'Danças Ocultas" started in '89 when giving collective lessons and playing transcriptions of classical partitions - Aida overture (Verdi), Air from the G string (Bach) - and other countries' folk music - Italy, Brazil... When I went to study classical composition, my university teacher advised me to compose for a diatonic accordion quartet. So I started composing to the band getting out of the instrument's folkloric tradition and tried to look for the natural wills of the instrument. In '93 Gabriel Gomes, Madredeus accordionist heard our work and showed interest in producing our first album, what he did, we recorded it in '94 and it was published in '96 by EMI Portugal "Most of our audience is between 20 and 40, going to attend diverse cultural events and having a curiosity to see new things. “The band members have other projects besides this band. Artur: "Francisco Miguel goes on collaborating with folkloric dancing groups, Filipe Cal and Filipe Ricardo are members of "Tunas" (University bands) and I also play in another musical project called "4Portango" vocationeted to play Piazzolla Tangos with some Portuguese accent. We are frequently invited to play in concerts and make recordings. I myself compose music to theatre, dance and cinema and at the same time I develop a pedagogic activity shared between the teaching of the instrument and the teaching of composition. "The traditional Portuguese music is alive due to a musician generation that comes from the political intervention music of the 70's close to the traditional roots. These musicians used to play several musical styles (Jazz, Pop, and Rock among others), they joined bands and by the early 90's they revisited the Portuguese traditional music in a revival movement against the Anglo-Saxon dominant musical influence. It's in this context that new bands and voices appear like Madredeus, Dulce Pontes, Camane, Paulo Braganca, Gaiteiros de Lisboa, Frei Fado d'el Rei, Amelia Muge, among others. In this line, a lot of urban young people began to show interest in traditional instruments which were getting old fashioned (diatonic accordion, "gaita-de-fole (bagpipe), "Sanfona" (Hurdy-gurdy), "cavaquinho" a little chord instrument like the Hawaiian ukulele).