Post by teophrastusbombastus on Nov 14, 2023 22:05:12 GMT
Lena d'Agua was a friend of António Variações who recorded 5 themes he did not have the time to leave in publishing order.
This album includes those 5 along with covers of other artists themes.
So, its presence may seem a little forced on this board but it ends up being much more interesting than the compilation on previous thread.
In terms of Variações' history... to me is if he was singing himself...
António Variações themes are numbers 1, 2, 4, 5, 7 and 9 (9 is a 6th previously published theme).
(From memory this playlist lacks a cover of a Zeca Afonso theme: "Redondo Vocábulo - maybe copyright issues...)
She says it is from her previous album but I remember downloading from her site as being from this one.
For sure one of the most intricate lyrics of Zeca Afonso, our leading protest singer / anti fascist resistant:
This last track is a version of "A culpa é da vontade" without the hand clapping.
Some of these last Variações themes are filled with a sense of "end".
It is quite clear he had already understood his time to go was near.
Without any technical knowledge of music he left a short but outstanding body of work that was a refreshing shock to the Portuguese musical panorama. And a never ending source of inspiration for the following artists. Talking pop / rock segment...
Not only he composed everything he recorded except "Povo que lavas no rio", a Fado standard, but also wrote all of his outstanding lyrics with the exception of "Canção" for which he used a Fernando Pessoa poem.
To me, "A culpa é da vontade" is the most beautiful lyrics ever written in Portuguese language.
This album includes those 5 along with covers of other artists themes.
So, its presence may seem a little forced on this board but it ends up being much more interesting than the compilation on previous thread.
In terms of Variações' history... to me is if he was singing himself...
António Variações themes are numbers 1, 2, 4, 5, 7 and 9 (9 is a 6th previously published theme).
(From memory this playlist lacks a cover of a Zeca Afonso theme: "Redondo Vocábulo - maybe copyright issues...)
She says it is from her previous album but I remember downloading from her site as being from this one.
For sure one of the most intricate lyrics of Zeca Afonso, our leading protest singer / anti fascist resistant:
This last track is a version of "A culpa é da vontade" without the hand clapping.
Some of these last Variações themes are filled with a sense of "end".
It is quite clear he had already understood his time to go was near.
Without any technical knowledge of music he left a short but outstanding body of work that was a refreshing shock to the Portuguese musical panorama. And a never ending source of inspiration for the following artists. Talking pop / rock segment...
Not only he composed everything he recorded except "Povo que lavas no rio", a Fado standard, but also wrote all of his outstanding lyrics with the exception of "Canção" for which he used a Fernando Pessoa poem.
To me, "A culpa é da vontade" is the most beautiful lyrics ever written in Portuguese language.