Presents:
FERNANDO PESSOA
O FADO E A ALMA PORTUGUESA
(FADO AND THE PORTUGUESE SOUL)
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BOOKCD:
Format: BOOKCD (Cover: 20,5cm x 14,2cm)
Languages: Portuguese and English
File under: Fado / World Music / Portugal
Cat.#:: 2564636408
EAN: 0825646364084
ISBN: 9789899712744
PVP: EUR 20,00 | PPD Export: EUR 10,00
CD:
Format: CD
Languages: Portuguese and English
File under: Fado / World Music / Portugal
Cat. #: 2564636409
EAN: 0825646364091
PPD: EUR 6,50
Release: November, 25th 2013
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SINOPSIS:
Fado and the Portuguese Soul is a
work uniting two of the major
patrimonies of Portuguese culture
and of Lisbon: the poetry of
Fernando Pessoa and fado. For the
first time we have the poetry of
Pessoa in the great voices of fado.
A recording with 20 songs, 6 of
them previously unreleased. The
book contains photos of the
artists, texts, and the poems that
are sung translated into English by
Alexis Levitin and Richard Zenith.
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01. Mariza - Há uma música do povo
02. Carminho - Houve um ritmo no meu sono *
03. Camané - Quadras
04. Ricardo Ribeiro - Olha-me rindo uma criança *
05. Débora Rodrigues - A tua voz fala amorosa *
06. Rodrigo Costa Félix - Prece
07. Mafalda Arnauth - Cai chuva do céu cinzento *
08. Mísia - Dança de mágoas
09. Pedro Moutinho - Contemplo o que não vejo
10. Ana Laíns - Não sei quantas almas tenho *
11. Ana Sofia Varela - Montes e a paz que há neles *
12. Patrícia Rodrigues - Cantigas de portugueses
13. Katia Guerreiro - Ave-Maria
14. Joana Amendoeira - Sopra o vento
15. Helder Moutinho - Mar Português
16. Cristina Branco - Mágoa
17. António Zambujo - Ó sino da minha aldeia
18. Paulo Bragança - Na ribeira deste rio
19. Maria Ana Bobone - Leve, breve, suave
20. Ana Moura feat. Patxi Andión - Vaga, no azul amplo solta
* Unreleased songs.
Fado and the Portuguese Soul
All poetry - and song is an assisted poetry - reflects what the soul does not have. That’s
why the songs of sad people are happy and the songs of happy people are sad.
Fado, however, is neither happy nor sad. It is an episode during an intermission. It gave
shape to the Portuguese soul when it didn’t yet exist and yearned for everything
without the strength to really yearn.
Strong souls attribute everything to Destiny; only the weak believe in their own will,
because it doesn’t exist.
Fado is the exhaustion of a strong soul, Portugal’s look of disdain at the God in which it
believed and which it then abandoned.
In fado the Gods return, legitimate and from far away. That is the secret meaning of the
figure of King Dom Sebastião.
FERNANDO PESSOA
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See the video presentation with testimonials from the artists:
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