In Love With Lisbon » Music

Lovely Lisboa – A Video

leahwhitehorse — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 20:37:15 +0000

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!

Fados – A New Film by Carlos Saura

leahwhitehorse — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 08:57:54 +0000

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.

Colours in Portuguese – The Music

leahwhitehorse — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 16:07:13 +0000

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