Music from Portugal Atipico - Luis Baptis - 14.99 Portuguese musician plays 14 different guitars: classical guitar, Portuguese mandolin, Portuguese guitar, Braguesa guitar, Ukulele, Da terra guitar, Beiroa guitar, Toeira guitar, Campaniça guitar, Rajão guitar, Amarantina guitar, Wire strings guitar from Madeira and Terceira guitar from the Azores and electric guitar - and the mix of music styles, from classical, traditional to contemporary. Accompanied bya small ensemble of strings and percussion. Raianas - Malvela - 16.99 Malvela is a multi-generational female group. Their ages range from 86 years old, of Señora Carmen, to 32, of Rachel Dominguez. Despite their differences in age, women are united by their desire to revive the old songs of the Raia (Galician border between Spain and Portugal). With this album, Malvela conveys the same force and festive atmosphere of their live shows. Raianas works to highlight the shared historical and linguistic identity of the two banks of the Minho river: the Galician border and the north of Portugal. Incognita Alquimia - Dazkarieh - 17.99 The 2006 release from the Portuguese world music ensemble. Amarte - Manuel d'Oliveira and Mediterraneo - 17.99 This CD by the Portuguese guitarist was recorded live in 2005, in Praça de Santiago, Guimarães. The musicians of the ensemble Mediterrâneo are José Lima (acoustic bass), David Leão (flute and bagpipe), Mário Gonçalves (drums) and Rui Ferreira (piano). Aconteceu - Ana Moura - 17.99 The second recording by this up and coming Portuguese fadista offers traditional songs and newly written compositions. Para Além da Saudade - Ana Moura - 17.99 The 2007 release by the young fadista from Portugal is deep into the tradition, the voice simply set against a small acoustic ensemble of Custodio Castelo and Jorge Fernando (Portuguese guitars) and Filipe Larsen (bass guitar). O mar... - Maria Teresa - 17.99 In these 14 songs, this artist invites us to leave the 'Porto das palavras' and accompany her on a musical journey connecting the music and culture of Brazil and Portugal. Maria Teresa weaves true magic into this selection of Portuguese and Brazilian classics. The arrangements (by her own musicians) are impeccable down to the finest detail, highlighting all the scope and force of this remarkable artist, who pours her heart and soul into her singing Leva-me aos Fados - Ana Moura - 17.99 The fourth album by Ana Moura, released in Portugal in October of 2009, and quickly rising to the top of the local charts, the album follows in the footsteps of its predecessor, the multiple award-winner Para Além da Saudade. With her soulful and riveting interpretation of her land's captivating fado style, Portuguese singer Ana Moura has become a leading exponent of this poetic, deeply expressive idiom which personifies the Portuguese psyche as it explores such universal themes as lost love, separation, and longing. Listen to A Penumbra and Rumo Ao Sul. Coliseu - Ana Moura - 16.99 A June 2008 concert by a rising star in modern fado in Lisbon's Coliseu dos Recrios. Special guests included two leading figures in the history of fado - Beatriz da Conceição and Maria da Fé - as well as Moura's music producer and collaborator, Jorge Fernando. Viagem de um Som - Terra d'Àgua - 16.99 Terra d'Aqua are the Portuguese duo of Maria Anadon on vocals, and Davide Zaccaria on cello, classical guitar and keyboards Ao Vivo em Macau (Live in Macau) - Conjunto Joao Domingos - 11.99 After a career spanning more than four decades in the music of Mozambique, this African musician and his band have finally made their first recording on CD, produced in Macau during the Portugal Day celebrations on 10 June 1995. It's raw, gritty and full of soul. Electric guitars, bass and drums are pumped up by a rugged horn section, keyboards and singers. Canto Maior - Maio Moco - 17.99 Formed in 1985, Maio Moço ('The New May') are well repsected as one of the major Portuguese folk ensembles, and band that has researched and presented the folk music of many regions of Portugal and presented them in concert and on record for almost 2 decades. Antologia do Centenario 1903-2003 - Banda de Armada Portuguesa - 16.99 The Portuguese Navy Band is presented in a series of songs dating back to the earliest days of recorded music and coming right up to 2003. Brass bands and vocal groups in true navy band styles and a few surprises. a Monte - Amelia Muge - 17.99 One of the greatest singers in Portugal (says Cliff), in an innovative contemporary folk setting. Zanzibar - Joao Afonso - 17.99 A prime mover in the new folk scene in Portugal, this singer with east African heritage mixes worldly roots with a world-wise lyricism. Segredos - Dona Rosa - 17.99 Accompanied by Enzo D´Aversa and Raul Abreu on accordion, guitar, bass, piano, and percussion, Dona Rosa presents a new kind of Portuguese performance. In contrast to her first CD Historias Da Rua there are only two solo pieces on Segredos, and she even speaks about her own memories and experiences. Besides fados Dona Rosa sings traditional Portuguese songs that have been significant to her. Portugales - Various Portuguese Artists - 16.99 An excellent 2 CD collection of roots music from Portugal, compiled by the equally excellent Resistencia label in Madrid, from the early roots-rock of Jose Afonso's band Ritual Tejos to the contemporary folk music of Dulce Pontes. 27 tracks from well know traditional musicians, unknown and innovative adventurers, jazz and Brasilian influenced dance music and everything in between. Artists include Sergio Godhinho, Rui Veloso, Setima Legiao, Amelia Muge, Vai De Roda, Julio Pereira, Fausto, GNR, Jose Afonso and Radio Macau. Outra Vida - Joao Afonso - 16.99 Portuguese-via-Mozambique artist João Afonso's 2006 release is as warm and occasionally quirky as what I have come to expect from this songwriter and singer. This one has some more Afro-pop inferences than previously, and it is rhythmically solid while still holding on to the subtle and sweet tone that is Afonso's trademark. Comes in a a small hard-cover book, with charming drawings, and lyrics in Portuguese, with Spanish translation. Missangas - Joao Afonso - 16.99 Born in 1965 in Mozambique of a Portuguese family, Afonso early on began to make new connections between the music of east African and his traditional homeland of Portugal, and his music has always reflected his dual cultural citizenship. This is his first solo album, created in 1997 under the production of Julio Periera, and it shows the magnificent range of musical tones he is capable of, as a musician and as a composer. Historias da rua - Dona Rosa - 17.99 Traditional fado and folk songs of Portugal, sung in straightforward, folk style, accompanied by accordion, triangle, and on two tracks by the Bulgairan choir Angelite für José Afonso - various - 17.99 Jose Afonso (1929-1987) was a leader in the creation of a political songs (canção de intervenção) movement against the totalitarian regime of Portugal leading up to the 1974 revolution. This collection gathers together an excellent group of artists under the direction of Julio Pereira to pay contemporary tribute to this master of the Portuguese nova canção. El Corazon Tiene Tres Puertas - Dulce Pontes - 24.99 El Corazón Tiene Tres Puertas is the 2007 recording by the sensational young Portuguese singer, stunning live concert performances on 2 CDs and a free DVD (Pal format) of a different concert in Istanbul plus some special features. Her mixture of fado, folk songs and creative new music makes her one of the most interesting performers on the scene today. Diagonal - Stockholm Lisboa Project - 17.99 The artists say: In this project, we explore our cultures and traditions Then travelling diagonally through Europe. Portugal in the southwest and Sweden in the northeast of Europe are 4.000 kilometers apart from each other geographically, but in music sometimes very close. We have to listen carefully to the inner voice of each song that we play. What does the song tell us? How does the song want to be performed? Sometimes it says "play me in a fado style". Other times it says "I need Nordic clothes". A few times it says "I was born in Portugal and have a cousin in Sweden". We call it "fado, polska and beyond". But that is to simplify this project, because the music doesn't let itself be defined in words, just in music! - The ensemble is Liana on lead vocals, Filip Jers on diatonic, chromatic and bass harmonica, Sérgio Crisóstomo on violin and Simon Stålspets on Nordic mandola, diatonic accordion.