Peninsulas & Continents is the name of the new album that actress and singer Maria de Medeiros will present at the Municipal Auditorium of Olhão, on September 17th, at 21:30 pm.
This show is part of the Allgarve programme, a partnership between the Municipality of Olhão and Algarve Tourism.
Let's take a musical journey between the Iberian and Italian peninsulas and the American and African continents. With the Discoveries, exchanges, alliances, cinema, music traveled through the centuries. From the Latin peninsulas of Europe came poems, melodies, talents, feelings, as well as from the immense African and American continents, which bequeathed rhythms, dynamics, nostalgia and influences. Peninsulas & Continents explores these mutual echoes.
The poem by a medieval troubadour in Valencian language responds to an Angolan lament in Kimbundu, which finds an echo in a ballad by the Portuguese composer José Afonso, who in turn seems to have a direct dialogue with the Chilean poet Victor Jara.
You can visit the classics of Italian Nino Rota written for North American films and masterpieces of universal cinema. Resistance songs intersect with African fado and Brazilian and Spanish rock, with compositions by Lenine and “El last de la fila”.
In addition to music, the languages themselves create a melodic web: Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, Catalan, English… Languages of the peninsulas and continents. Messages, murmurs, screams, sighs, laughs form a fabric of feelings in an intercontinental journey provided by Maria de Medeiros.
Many of the concerts from The Little More Blue they were also an opportunity to collaborate with musicians from the countries visited, to discover repertoires.
Thus, Peninsulas & Continents it is also a reflection of this trajectory, of the musical and personal encounters that have been produced. That's why the base trio was joined by trombonist Itacyr Bocato and percussionist Rubém Dantas do Brasil and Spanish cellist Manuel Martinez del Fresno.
Through the artist's second musical work, Peninsulas & Continents, you can hear themes like La Dolce Vita (Nino Rota) you won't tell (Sergio Godinho), the man came back (Zeca Alfonso), Who to Window (Amelia Muge), the old girl (Valdemar Bastos) or Aixi with cell qui es veu prop de la mort (Raimon / Ausias March) in the voice of Maria de Medeiros.
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