Category Archives: Music

Lovely Lisboa – A Video

Posted on March 27, 2008 | 2 Comments

Thanks again to Ubi for hunting out this video on YouTube. A lovely series of images of Lisbon accompanied by a beautifully sung “Lisboa menina e moça”. Enjoy!

 

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Fados – A New Film by Carlos Saura

Posted on March 23, 2008 | 2 Comments
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Oscar nominated Spanish director Carlos Saura has made a musical documentary on the subject of Portuguese Fado.  From what I have read, this is Saura’s interpretation of Fado and includes many of famous fadistas including Amalia and Mariza as well as many more. More a series of vignettes including dance which is not characteristic of Fado, Saura brings together a series of impressions of the genre. It is a perhaps a personal journey that is always going to remain on step away from the truth as Carlos is not from Portugal but from what I have seen so far, I think it will be a very interesting movie to watch.

I have yet to find the movie available on Amazon US, UK or even on Portuguese site Fnac but I am keeping my fingers crossed. It may be well worth keeping an eye on your local arthouse independant cinema for  showings of this.

Here is a trailer I discovered on YouTube and a link to the official site.

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Colours in Portuguese – The Music

Posted on February 9, 2008 | Leave a comment

Olá all.
Some people have expressed an interest in the music that is the backing track for my Colours in Portuguese video which I posted a while back. This is a little song that just popped into my mind as I was making the video so I decided to use it. It’s both written and performed by myself. I tend to find that whenever I work with images they inspire music and whenever I listen to music I see images – I’m just that little bit eccentric :-)

Anyway – for those that have requested it, here is a link to the Song.
Just right click and choose save as…
Muito obrigada x

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