An
Audio Portrait:
We spent two months in and around Porto, Portugal
looking for sounds of folk life. Searching out florid and fluid
sounds in cafes, seaside villages, bakeries, wine-cellars, social
clubs, churches, mountain slopes, shopping centers, (and so much
more), we selected the final tracks with great care. There are two
opposing spirits visibly at work here: the old idealized past of
the port city that gave its name to the country, and the new budding
european metropolis whose football club F.C. Porto became only the
second team to win the UEFA Cup and European Cup in successive seasons.
READ MORE:
4
page review on the porto project in Die
Zeit
Tracks
1:
Haircut. 
2:
Lavadouro.
3:
Fishing in Foz.
4:
Vegetable Seller, Mercado do Bolhao.
5: Amolador, Mercado do Bolhao.
6: Bugiadas in Sobrado.
7:
Mouriscada in Sobrado.
8:
Boat Horns in Afurada
9:
Procession in Povoa de Varzim.
10. Celebration and/or Protest in São João de Frende
11:
Santo Padroeiro, Ajuda-nos!
12:
Portugal Beats England.
13:
Rosario.
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"This combination
of directness, eloquence and aphoristic manner is miles ahead of
the majority of contemporary sound design; sound design and
"experimental" music that primarily achieve one of these qualities
at the expense of the other two, or two at the expense of a third.
The album
opener: a recoding made in a
barbershop: quick and rhythmic clicking of scissors, plus soft drone of cars
passing by outdoors, plus a sentimental pop ballad from the radio; this track
is disclosing the essence of the whole lot of "click and cuts" production
that swarmed the world, spitting on its face at the same time!
Having heard this track only an idiot will continue to believe in "clicks and cuts". The sonic environment of the barbershop
is a laconic and graceful aphorism that successfully neutralizes the whole
style. This is not limited to the first track only. Later listening to the
disc we
encounter a handful of similar situations when a trend in contemporary music
is questioned, if not neutralized and shamed, by one short audio aphorism
from "folk life"."
-Andrij
Orel
14:
Joaquim Nogueira e Filho.
15:
Domingos Martins Machado.
16:
Domingos Plays Cavaquinho.
17:
Broa de Avintes.
18:
Tile Factory in Aveiro.
19:
Wine Testing.
20:
Filling an Oak Barrel
20: Bottling.
21:
Rita and Adriano.
23:
Sericoté
24:
Domingos Plays Cavaquinho.
Total
time: 58 minutes
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