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New CD "Sol" - released September 2007

 

 

 

 

 

Introduction:

 

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.

I like this CD! 

 

Dan Lundberg,

director of Swedish Center

for research in Folk Music and Jazz.

 

 

 

 

The music:

 

"Sol" has the same form and meaning in Swedish and Portuguese.

Its meaning is "Sun" - the star  of our solar system.

 

 

Stockholm Lisboa Project:

 

Liana: lead vocal

Luis Peixoto: Portuguese mandolin, bouzouki and vocal

Sérgio Crisóstomo: violin and vocal

Simon Stålspets: Nordic mandola, harmonica and vocal

 

 

 

Booking / Contact

 

Sérgio Crisóstomo

Rua Carlos Vieira Ramos 51, 4D

2780-216 Oeiras

Portugal

mobile +351 963 746 865
info@stockholmlisboa.com

 

Simon Stålspets

Snoilskyvägen 6
11254 Stockholm

Sweden
mobile +46 70 686 34 24
simonstalspets@hotmail.com

 

 

 

 

Technical data:

 

Produced by Stockholm Lisboa Project & Nomis Musik.

Recorded in Portugal and Sweden in January and April 2007.

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.

Photos: Elisa Regnier (in Nome de rua and Hortelã Mourisca),

Gonzalo Garcia de Viedma (CD cover) and Sérgio Crisóstomo (all other).

 

 

Nordic mandola made by Christer Ådin and tuned from descant to bass BEADGC.

Flat back Bouzouki made by Fylde and tuned DADG from descant to bass.

Portuguese mandolin made by Fernando Meireles and tuned from descant to bass EADG.

 

 

Thanks to:

Alzira Arouca for great help, tips and motivation.

Domingos Morais for kindly sharing folk music archives and recordings from last century.

Joaquim Balas for suggesting the contact with Liana.

 

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Distributed in Portugal by Ocarina

(www.ocarina-music.pt)

 

Sweden and rest of the world contact CDA

(www.cda.se), +46 84 42 11 20

 

 

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