David Fonseca reserved for 2012 one of the greatest artistic challenges of his career – to tell a year of his life through his songs. The result is "Seasons", a work divided into two records: "Rising", the first volume, and "Falling", the second. “The challenge is totally new to me and perhaps that why I’m so enthusiastic about the whole project. The idea: a year of personal experiences and observations transformed into songs, a musical portrait of the days that have marked this route in a kind of calendar / a musical diary. A pen on a paper directing a trip without interruptions, limitations, filters or plans, advancing on the calendar. My story told chronologically as an open book during one year". The present record, "Seasons - Rising :", is the first volume of the fifth solo album by David Fonseca and had "What Is Life For" as debut single. Produced by Nelson Carvalho and David Fonseca (who also secured a significant part of the instrumentation) counted with the participation of David’s band: Sérgio Nascimento on the drums, Nuno Simões on the bass, Ricardo Fiel on the guitar and Paulo Pereira and Francisca Cortesão (a.k.a. Minta) on keyboards and choirs. To reinforce this exceptional quintet, David Fonseca also invited some friends such as Rui Maia (X-Wife), responsible for some of the keyboard sounds; the piano player Filipe Melo; Helder Gonçalves (Clã) and Catherine Salinas, lead singer of Best Youth.