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Fado Mudança Da Maré
03:17
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Cano
06:00
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A Trova Lusiada
12:02
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O wave of the swelling sea
My love has gone from me
Please God may he soon return
Meu amor é marinheiro
E mora no alto mar
Seus braços são como o vento
Ninguém os pode amarrar
Meu amor disse que eu tinha
Na boca um gusto a saudade
E uns cabelos onde nascem
Os ventos e a Liberdade
Meu amor é marinheiro
E mora no alto mar
Coração que nasceu livre
Não se pode acorrentar
Ondas do mare de Vigo
Se vistes meu amigo
E ai Deus! se verrá cedo?
Ai ó meu São João
Ai ó meu belo marinheiro
Lovai-me na vossa barca...
O milho da nossa terra
É tratado com carino
Ai é a riqueza do povo...
Eito fora, eito for a
Ai e ó ai e ó ai...
Blow the wind southerly, southerly, southerly
Blow bonny breezes my lover to me...
Great sea, winds and great weather
Call me
They call me...
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O Céu, A Terra
02:23
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O céu, a terra, o vento sossegado
As ondas, que se estendem pela areia
Os peixes, que no mar o sono enfreia
O nocturno silêncio repousado
O pescador Aónio, que deitado
Onde co vento a agua se meneia
Chorando o nome amado em vão nomeia
Que não pode ser mais que nomeado
Ondas dezia, antes que amor me mate,
Tomai-me a minha ninfa, que tão cedo
Mi fizestes a morte estar sujeita
Ninguém lhe fala, o mar de longe bate
Move-se brandamente o arvoredo
Leva-lhe o vento a voz, que ao vento deita
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Rivermouth
11:49
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Mi Com Rio – Rivermouth
Hold me
One week out of Macau
The sea rising, the wind shrieking
The lightning striking down
Mother-rage of ocean
Pitching us overboard
The ship wrecked in the gulping wave
This is me drowning
This is you swimming away
Mi Com Rio – Rivermouth
Hold me hold me
This is you swimming away
You with your sea-soaked words
Your necessary empire
Mi Com Rio – Rivermouth
Hold me in memory
Love nights in Macau
How they possessed us dissolving us into
The spaces of our bodies
Mother-rage of love
Pitching us overboard
Our stars wrecked in the gulping wave
This was our drowning
Here I am slipping away
Mi Com Rio – Rivermouth
Hold me hold me
Here I am slipping away
Me with my love-soaked tongue
My necessary empire
Mi Com Rio – Rivermouth
Hold me in memory
Dezia, antes que amor me mate
Tomai-me a minha ninfa
This is me writing
Watching you swimming away
Me with my mother’s tongue
A postscript written on the back of nowhere
Writing to tell you
Truth is continual loss
And sexual love makes strangers of us all
One death we all share
Calling it Babel in every language
One lightning strikes us own
Mother-rage of child-bed
Pitching us into speech
Our birth-wreck in the gulping wave
This is our drowning
This is us following through
Mi Com Rio – Rivermouth
Hold me
Hold me in memory
Ninguém lhe fala, o mar de longe bate
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Rag Mumbai
08:03
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Já teu pais foi uma flor de verde pinho
País em terra (e semeá-lo uma aventura)
Depois abriu-se o mar como um caminho
Depois o bosque se fez barco e o barco arado
Desta nova e fatal agricultura
Colher no mar o fruto nunca semeado
Depois o bosque se fez barco
E ramo a ramo foi remo e quilha
Era um povo a perder-se por seu armo
Que perdia o seu povo de ilha em ilha
Depois o bosque se fez barco
E ramo a ramo foi remo e quilha
E terra a terra perdeste a pãtria por achar
E Guerra a Guerra por tuas armas perdeste
Eras tu que morrias no morte das lavras
Depois o bosque se fez barco...
Your country once was a land of trees
Till one day the sea opened up like a road
Then tree by tree became ship and ship a plough
To harvest a crop that you did not sow
As ship by ship stole through the oceans
And time slipped the anchor of your soul
As war by war a stronger power you sought to gain
You lost your country and yourself from island to island...
Eras tu que morrias nas batalhas
Enredado nas armas que tecias
Malhas onde sem glória te perdias
Eras tu que cantavas dentro das palavras
Tecendo desarmado o canto e as armas
It was you who were dying
Tangled up in ambition
Losing self without honour
Music and war, music and war
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As Colunas De Madrugada
08:21
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As colunas partiam de madrugada
Para o norte partiam para a morte
Partiam de Luanda flor pisada
Levavam morte de Luanda para o norte
Dumb as an ox the country conscript turned
On his narrow bed as if to say
This is enough, Goodbye Sirs Ah! Goodbye
Then raised his gun and shot his face away
And six hours later I would wish him dead
De Luanda partiam flor pisada
Colunas que levavam
Luanda para o norte para o morte
De Luanda partiam madrugada
Summoned by phone back at the base
I drive up the dust road north
I heave a sigh
Another bad night in a losers’ war
Morphine and swabs, the dressings pail and gauze
Which four hours later would have proved no worth
De Luanda madrugada para o norte
As colunas partiam
Levavam de Luanda a flor pisada
Para a morte do norte para a morte
Iron the cot to which they had him tied
As he writhed it groaned
Seemed to describe
The agony he had no voice to own
Nor could I still by any means his limbs
Which flailed and flailed the two hours till he died
Partiam de Luanda madrugada
Colunas para o norte
Levavam morte de Luanda
Para o norte da morte flor pisada
Candles at night improve the wine and food
In a Lisbon house illuminate
An empire’s trophies, as the admiral lifts
His nightly anise in a crystal glass
Which sixty seconds later will explode
De Luanda partiam as colunas
Para o norte partiam flor pisada
De Luanda levavam para o norte
A morte de madrugada
Horror of war beyond what words can say
Or a picture graph
For this we bow
In lying silence at the cenotaph
But now I thank God for your death and now
You’re screaming out the truth in heaven at last
Partiam as colunas de Luanda
Levavam para a morte
A madrugada: flor pisada
Ao norte
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A Country Conscript
07:30
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10. |
Song Of Reconciliation
02:55
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11. |
Music At Last
09:18
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Music at last
After the caravels
After the slave ships
After the ironsides
After all that – the music
Music at last
After the mission schools
After the trade wars
After the empires
After all that – the music
We are the mariners now
The navigators, os marinheiros
Por mares do imaginário
The navigators, os marinheiros
Invisble ships slip out from the harbours of history
Hugging the cost of dreams
Or daring the ocean of an open future
We are all strangers now
Somos todos deste tempo
One human family
No mesmo mundo
Music at last
After the voyages
After the compass
After the atlas
After all that – the music
Music at last
After the armies
After the war zones
After the guns and flags
After all that – the music
We are the mariners now
The navigators, os marinheiros
Por mares do imaginário
The navigators, os marinheiros
Invisble ships of sound swiftly crossing all frontiers
Following the rhythm of tides
Or hearing the deep notes in the tides of rhythm
We are all strangers now
Somos todos deste tempo
One human family
No mesmo mundo
Music at last
After the caravels
After the mission schools
After the voyages
After the armies
After all that – the music
Music at last
After the telegrams
After the signals
After new Babel
After all that – the music
We are the mariners now
The navigators, os marinheiros
Por mares do imaginário...
And from the eye of brightness comes
A new map
A new justice
Because of all that – the music
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Grand Union Orchestra London, UK
Grand Union Orchestra is a multicultural world jazz ensemble based in London. It has been performing, touring and recording large-scale shows for over 30 years and is well known for its educational work. Grand Union specialises in large-scale musical performances that reflect the backgrounds of its performers and often invites participation from amateur musicians and community groups. ... more
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