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Stockholm Lisboa ProjectSol (Nomis, Sweden) Stockholm Lisboa Project's new CD is about bringing Portugal and Sweden's traditions together. From Portuguese fado to Swedish polskas, they journey through melancholy and high energy. The beautiful voice of Liana (Portuguese National Fado Award Winner twice) and the combination of Nordic mandola, Portuguese mandolin and violin makes this project an exclusive combination of strong personalities revealing an amazingly powerful mixture.
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The musicians: Liana (vocal) Luis Peixoto (Portuguese mandolin, bouzouki and vocal) Sérgio Crisóstomo (violin and vocal) Simon Stålspets (Nordic mandola, harmonica and vocal) make a unique and unusual addition to the world of cultural fusion.
Musicians from Portugal and Sweden joined to communicate their music traditions. Distant in space, under the universal language of music they found new textures and bridges between North and South, one tradition and the other. The repertoire is about Portuguese and Scandinavian folk music, from Fado songs to Polska dances, brought to the ears by the sound colors of violin, mandolin, Nordic mandola, harmonica and voice. Simon Stålspets, Sérgio Crisóstomo, Liana and Luis Peixoto are the faces of this project which brings to stage traditions from their roots. Is there something that connects Swedish polskas with Portuguese fado? At first sight – nothing! Perhaps it was this simple fact that made me so interested in the StockholmLisboa project. After listening to the record I immediately knew the answer – in the musical emotion everything becomes possible. Fado is the blues of Portugal – a music that means a lot, a music that makes a difference. Fado is vocal music in the first place. A singer, fadista, is in focus, accompanied by a small instrumental group. Swedish spelmansmusik is in many ways its opposite – instrumental, solo, connected to dance… But the keyword – the mutual core – is saudade, a Portuguese term for a state of mind or an emotion. A feeling of sorrow, melancholy and longing. Often a desire for something unattainable; an impossible love or a longing to a place that will never be seen again. Saudade is always present in fado but its also a part of Swedish music – even though we don’t have a word for it. In the feeling, in saudade, the musics and musicians meet. In saudade can the two corners of Europe come together, the periphery becomes central and love springs out.
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