“Sento-me aqui nesta sala vazia e relembro. Uma luz quente de Verão entra pela varanda.(...)Olho(...) e escuto o indício de um rumor de vida, o sinal obscuro de uma memória de origens.(...) Tento, há anos, vencer a dureza dos dias(...)Tento descobrir a última face das coisas e ler aí a minha verdade perfeita.(...)Sinto, sinto nas viceras a aparição fantástica das coisas, das ideias, de mim, e uma palavra que o diga coalha-me logo em pedra.(...) Nada mais há na vida do que o sentir original. (...)”
Virgílio Ferreira
"Aparição"
Ao estudar as seis etapas da carreira do “Bodhissatava”, adoptou um nome que lhe diz muito, Dâna, ou seja “Dom da Partilha”. Adoptou-o como forma de agradecer a “Deus” a capacidade de cantar e poder partilhar com os outros falando de Luz, Esperança, Liberdade e Amor.
Dâna pertence à nova geração do Fado. Compositora e poetisa, ama as tradições.
Nascida no meio da cultura popular, herda do seu avô, Sebastião Mateus Arenque, poeta popular, escritor e mentor da cultura tradicional na região da Azambuja, um gosto nato pelas tradições e cultura Portuguesa, e através dos seus pais, nasceu embalada pelo fado. Mas foi apenas aos 21 anos em 2001 que, ao participar no Festival da Canção e obtendo o 3º lugar, que se entregou à música.
Lança o seu primeiro trabalho a solo em 2003 com o titulo “Cantar Português”, onde opta por uma fusão de música tradicional portuguesa, fado e electrónica. Foi editado no Japão, Países de Leste e Norte da Europa, e em colectarias juntamente com nomes como Deep Forest, Enigma e Air.
Aos 27 anos, Dâna decide gravar um álbum dedicado inteiramente ao Fado, nascendo assim ”Sei Finalmente”, que mostra a expressão de uma fadista em ascensão que pela voz vai colorindo poemas monocromáticos. O Fado nasce de um encontro entre a emoção e a razão, ou seja, a vida, esse mistério que acontece sem se ver apenas ouvindo e sentindo.
O seu terceiro trabalho a solo acontece em 2009 e reflecte um caminho percorrido, e é por entre muitos palcos e públicos percorridos, que finalmente se reencontra como artista e, acima de tudo, como fadista. “Fado que te amo” conta com fados tradicionais entre os quais, o fado alexandrino, o fado das horas, o fado menor, o fado cravo, entre outros e onde Dâna nos presenteia poemas da sua autoria e de Vasco Lima. É um albúm que nos mostra alma de uma fadista a nú, onde o fado se apresenta desprotegido, chorado, enjeitado, castiço e boémio.
Dâna was brought up in popular culture with traditions inherited from her grand father, poet, writer and mentor of traditional culture in Azambuja. Trough her parents she embraced Fado and Folklore, which explains her sensibility to Portuguese traditional music. In spite her 27 years of age she participated on Portuguese Song Contest in 2001 and in several music projects as a guest.
Fado appears from a fusion between emotion and reason, this is, life, that mystery that happens naturally only by listening and feeling. Dâna belongs to the new generation of Portuguese music, songwriter and poet that loves her roots.
This new album reflects Dâna’s self growing. “Sei Finalmente” is the expression of a “fadista” (fado singer) in evolution that with her voice gives life to poems.
Through fado we are taken on a journey that leads us to the typical streets of old Lisbon neighborhoods and thought the sentiment and emotion on Dâna’s voice we are embraced by the colors, perfumes and the traditional roots and that major essence of the Portuguese musical expression called FADO.
“Fado que te amo” is the new album of Dâna. This album reflects her encounter as an artist and as a fado singer. It..s an album where she exposes her soul and here she shows a unprotected, crying, waif, pure and bohemian fado.
After a year of concerts and public, of encounters, of having conversations with lovers and connoisseurs of fado, the path to a new album was easy to find. Among fado cravo, fado das horas, fado menor, fado alexandrino, and other traditional fados, going through names such as Max, Alfredo Marceneiro, Frederico Valerio, and words in the form of lyrics from Dâna and Vasco Lima.
And so, through a Portuguese guitar and an acoustic guitar, we are taken through the sorrow and by night on a journey through the depths of her soul and of its FADO.
Hello all, this will be our final release of 2009, and a great way to end the year... Pinklogik asked 10 artists and friends to remix her entire "Learning To Trust Higher Frequencies" album and what an eclectic and stunningly produced work this is. Each track has its own feel, thanks to the diverse range of artists involved in the project. A shimmering journey through ambient colours, broken beats, sweet melodies, a little bit of quantum physics, and is one hell of a trip....
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Also from S27...
[S27-030] MIN-Y-LLAN : Dark Days (Downtempo, Ambient)
We are fast approaching the last days of 2009, so what better way to celebrate than this release from Welshman "Min-Y-Llan" who offers us this collection of atmospheric ambient pieces, the melodies within are dark and cavernous, being the perfect listening for the walk home on a frozen winters evening. Each track has a very melancholic feel as if looking towards a future that isn't as bright as we hope for, but nevertheless are powerless to escape. Free download!
After you've finished here, you may like to hear this folk-carol on myspace... Poem 230 of 230, WalkaboutsVerse (see my blog for details): CHRISTMAS SUNG SIMPLY
As gospellers have said, Beneath signalling skies, On land dusty to tread, A trough in a stable Was the strawy first-bed Of a divine baby - The forgiving Godhead.
A season for new hope - There then and here now; The yuletide of goodwill - There then and here now.
In respect of this chance, Beneath bright or dark skies, Faith's the star that we glance Attending Christ's churches And trying to enhance, With singing and ritual, Our God-loving stance.
Adviruz is the artist psedonym of Istanbul’s Pinar Gurcan, whose growing passion for sound is translated through her music. Since an early age, she has been listening and mimicking opera singers, writing melodies, songs and poems in which she spoke her mind and reflected her soul. All of which are evident on "Nightly Sounds", an 8 track album which is the equivilent of having a glimpse into a diary, learning of love lost, gained, a snapshot of the human condition from which we can all draw experience... All of these things are developed musically into minimalistic glitch, noise, idm, experimental music and microsounds, its influences reminiscent of work by artists like Tujiko Noriko, Mira Calix, Plaid and Björk.
Adviruz and Section 27 present "Nightly Sounds", an intricately woven and rewarding musical tapestry. Available now for free download.
To celebrate our first 27 releases on Section 27 Netlabel, we proudly present to you "Sectioned", a compilation of 27 tracks, amounting to 2 hours across two discs of twisted electronic beats, discordant melodies, haunting passages, broken ambience, bending senses of time and space, microscopic glitches, pounding bass frequencies, sounds between sounds, the human voice and the audible sensation of music dissolving in acid. This is the sound of your mind's eye. This is the sound of the Sectioned... Strap yourself in and enjoy the experience.
Also features a 75 minute bonus disc "Sectioned : Nonimxs", including 9 remixes of selected Section 27 artists by Nonima and 2 original tracks created by Silent Snow and Nina Kardec using existing Nonima tracks.
Almost Tomorrow is the third full length collaboration album from Section 27 Netlabel founders Tam Ferrans and Andrew Paterson, under their Nonima & theAudiologist guise. This time around the sound is more melodic, and has a definite feeling of a complete and more mature sound than heard on the previous LP's "Dystopian Battle Hymns" and "Ceremony After Amputation". If you are familiar with their individual projects you may even be in for a slight surprise, as the tracks are not as beat driven like before, but are more atmospheric and sound, well... "bigger". In its 75 minutes, Almost Tomorrow takes you on a trip from the digital rain-soaked cavernous scraping in "Thoughtograph", the ethereal beat jittering of "The Colour of Rain", intercepted transmissions from unknown places in "Com-Intercept", "Ganzfeld"s huge yet strangely insect-like beats until everything you knew comes crashing around you in "Almost Tomorrow". Burning pianos, glitched out soundscapes and intricately programmed beatplay, this may well be their best work to date. Consider it the soundtrack to a rainy overcast day, but with just that glimmer of sunshine peeking from the clouds. "Almost Tomorrow" wears its heart on its sleeve.
Colocámos mais um tema do "Arquétipos da Alma" em escuta no myspace. É um tema acústico e por isso diferente de todos os outros que compõe este trabalho. Chama-se "Não quero mais" e gostávamos mesmo muito de saber a tua opinião sobre ele. Bons flirts!
I just popped in to let you know that I now have a website and to invite you to drop by.
You can also download my book for free, details are on my site blog, there are also 24 videos, games to play, and you can become a member and share your thoughts.
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After you've finished here, you may like to hear this poem sung on myspace...
Poem 162 of 230, WalkaboutsVerse (please see my blog): TEES TO TYNE: FIRST IMPRESSIONS - SUMMER 2001
Where traditions are not so rare; Sea, country and works scent the air; A multitude of monuments, Planted tubs and patterned pavements.
The longish pedestrian malls; The remnants of defensive walls; Historic buildings are a gauge Of the respect for heritage.
Wheat, rape and pines in the fields; Estuaries guarded by shields; Long sandy beaches and wide scenes; Romantic-ruin go-betweens.
Rivers in parts licked by trees, Or fringed by boat clubs, wharfs, gantries, And crossed by practical delights - Varied spans, forming pleasing sights.
Fine churches headed at Durham; Football kits ad infinitum; Kept castles - one for study; Masonry behind masonry.
And, with moulding-works out that way, It’s somewhere for a longer stay..?
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