Diagonal CD 2009 | Stockholm Lisboa Project

Traditional field fence in Fors, Dalarna.

What is genuine in music? Is it possible to define which ingredients make music sound Portuguese or Swedish? Or is there only "good" or "bad" music?

In this project, we explore our cultures and traditions when 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! Enjoy the travel.

Sincerely / Liana, Filip, Sérgio & Simon

Stockholm Lisboa Project:

Liana: lead vocal
Filip Jers: diatonic, chromatic and bass harmonicas, vocal
Sérgio Crisóstomo: violin, vocal
Simon Stålspets: Nordic mandola, diatonic harmonica, vocal

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Window in Dalarna

	Recorded at Nomis Studio, Stockholm, January and February 2009. Produced by Nomis Musik & Stockholm Lisboa Project. All arrangements by Stockholm Lisboa Project. Mixed by Simon Stålspets at Nomis Musik. Artwork: Indoordesign.se & Sérgio Crisóstomo. Mastered by Tomas Ferngren at Dicentia, Gothenburg. Band photos: Björn Olin (essingen.com) at Göken (goken.nu), Stockholm. Other photos by Filip Jers and Sérgio Crisóstomo. Filip Jers is sponsored by Hering Harmonicas. Nordic mandola made by Christer Ådin, and tuned from descant to bass BEADGC. When staying in Portugal we are sponsored by www.sofiesrenting.com - Private house renting. When in London (U.K.) we eat at “O Fado” restaurant (www.ofado.co.uk). Thank you to: Our friends and family. All the great musicians and people we have met when on tour. Special thank you to: Meri Tiitola and Maarit Saarenkunnas for help in ”Yksi ruusu on kasvanut laaksossa”. Kerstin Sonnbäck for her enthusiastic, warm personality and important support when we needed it. João and Lucinda Crisóstomo for hospitality when we rehearse and compose at their wonderful country house in Vimeiro, Portugal.
			p & c 2009 Nomis Musik - CD05 © GSA, BeNeLux, UK: Westpark Music - 87 177 www.WestparkMusic.eu

"Diagonal" CD, 2009