quinta-feira, 23 de agosto de 2012

ARMANDINHO




He has been the most important guitar player of all times in Portugal. When you listen anyone of the performances recorded in the 78 rpm that survive till our days, it seems that he is not from this world!
The sound he gets from the guitar is magic and unique.
All the guitar players that use this instrument as a way of living are unanimous, saying that ARMANDINHO was unique!
As Armandinho there are other performers of the portuguese guitar that we will bring here in the next months.
We can give some names only for reference: EDUARDO ALVES, JOÃO MARIA DOS ANJOS, PEDRO D´ARAÚJO, JOÃO PEREIRA DE BARROS, ERNESTO BRANDÃO, ANTÓNIO BROJO, CARLOS CAMPOS, JOÃO DO CARMO and many others.

Here you can listen a track from one album that has been released some years ago, that is for many years out of stock.
You can get all those tracks in this site:www.tradisom.com





terça-feira, 21 de agosto de 2012

JÚLIA MENDES



This singer and actress born and died in Lisbon (1885-1911)
Since very young he shows special capacities for singing and acting. 
She start singing in the streets of Lisbon begging for some money, because she was very poor.
After some years of suffer she finally gets an opportunity to appear in the theater. She plays then important roles in some "revistas" as Ó da Guarda, P´rá Frente, Zig-Zag, ABC and Sol e Sombra.
AS JULIA MENDES there are much more singers which performances become unpublished for the public in general. We can here give you some names only for a reference: ADELINA FERNANDES, ALICE (do Porto), ALICE PANCADA, ISABEL COSTA, VIRGÍNIA AÇO, LUISA SATANELA,  FERNANDA ABRANCHES, ESTER DE ABREU, HELENA ALÃO, MARIA ALBERTINA, CECÍLIA D´ALMEIDA, ILDA DE ALMEIDA, ESTELA ALVES, MARIANNA ALVES, GUILHERMINA ANJOS, NATÁLIA DOS ANJOS, MARIA ASSALTADA, ALICE LEMOS ÁVILA, LUIZA BAHARÉM, JÚLIA BARROSO, BEATRIZ BATISTA, NATALINA BIZARRO,  LÍLIA BRANDÃO, JULIeTA BRIGUE. This are only a small part of the female singers that we will bring you, showing their records in this blog.



Because she dies very young (only at 26) becomes a kind of symbol for the fado lovers.
Here we give you a song about her in the voice of Maria da Nazaré:





DATA
SINGER - JÚLIA MENDES
TITLE - FADO CORRIDO MENOR
LABEL - ODEON
MATRIX - 43299
YEAR OF RECORDING - 1908/1911

LOMELINO SILVA



His complet name was Nuno Estêvão Lomelino da Silva  and was born on December 26th 1892 in Funchal, Madeira. 
He made his artistic debut in 1916, at the age of 24, when he sang at a charity performance. 
When Portugal entered World War I he enlisted and served in the military. 
Later on, in the early 20’s he went to Lisbon to develop his vocal abilities, and was a disciple of Professor Alberto Sarti. 
Some time later he was advised to go to Italy, the homeland of the bel canto, in order to further his opera studies with distinguished masters such as Giovanni Laura and Ercole Pizzi. 
After some time, he made his official debut as a tenor at Teatro Dal Varme, in Milan, on December 31st 1921, interpreting the main role of “Rigoletto”. 
On that day a new operatic star was born and from that moment onwards his artistic career grew from strength to strength. His golden voice received enthusiastic applause from different audiences and excellent reviews from the press.
For a few years in a row he performed for several Italian opera companies, both in that transalpine country and abroad, on several tours. During all that time he always returned to Madeira to visit his relatives and to rest in between seasons, and he always made a point in performing at Teatro Municipal do Funchal, where he was cherished by his countrymen. 
During the interval of a performance there in the summer of 1925, a tribute was paid to him by means of unveiling a marble plaque with his name, which still exists there. 

This song has been published in the CD which cover we show here:

You can get this CD at www.tradisom.com

Here you can listen one of the songs in the CD "questo o quella":

DATA
SINGER - LOMELINO SILVA
TITLE - MÃESINHA
LABEL - VICTOR
MATRIX - 79487
YEAR OF RECORDING - 1926


JOSÉ AFONSO




He is considered the most important popular singer of all times in Portugal.
This song "O SOL ANDA LÁ NO CÉU", that we can translate as "The sun is in the sky", has been recorded for the first time by him in 1953.
This was one of the recordings made by him for the label Alvorada, lately reproduced by the brasilian Continental, as shown here.

The lyrics of the song are:

O Sol anda lá no céu
Tão pertinho atrás da Lua
Também trago a minha alma
De castigo atrás da tua
Eu fui lavar ao Mondego
As penas da minhas mágoas
Minhas mágoas eram negras
Negras ficaram as águas
Oh estrelinha do Norte
Espera por mim que já vou
Ensina-me o caminho
Já que o luar me enganou.


Here we have the sound of this record:



DATA
SINGER - JOSÉ AFONSO
TITLE - O SOL ANDA LÁ NO CÉU
LABEL - CONTINENTAL
MATRIX - 17475
YEAR OF RECORDING - 1953


EDUARDO BARREIROS
 BEATRIZ PEREIRA



This is a very popular song in the south of Portugal.
In this region of Portugal the poliphonic coral singing, usually only with mans, is very popular. Hundred of groups still exist, specially in the districts of Évora and Beja.
They have a very powerfull presence in stage.
The style of those coral groups is known as Cante and very recently this tradition is preparing to be niminated as Cultural Heritage at Unesco.
Here, in this record the song "Vas te embora Passarinho", which means "Go way little bird" sounds very different because we can listen only two voices, one male singer (Edurado Barreiros) and one woman (Beatriz Pereira).

DATA
SINGER - EDUARDO BARREIROS, BEATRIZ PEREIRA
TITLE - VAS TE EMBORA PASSARINHO
LABEL - DISQUE POUR GRAMOPHONE
MATRIX - G. C. 62284
YEAR OF RECORDING - 1908

JOSÉ BACALHAU



Fado Bacalhau has beem composed by José António Augusto da Silva (1880-1935), know as José Bacalhau. The "Fado Bacalhau" has been writen in the begining of the XX century.
Many "fadistas (or fado singers) perform this fado, as Maria Amélia Proença, Alfredo Marceneiro, Vicente da Câmara or Amália Rodrigues.
The record we publish here today is a very rare item, really very hard to find. We are very lucky because we have samples of it.

We include here a video of this song, recently played by the singer Fernando Maurício:






DATA
SINGER - JOSÉ BACALHAU
TITLE - FADO BACALHAU
LABEL - ODEON
MATRIX - 136.209
YEAR OF RECORDING - 1925 
MAX



MAX is the nickname for Maximiniano de Sousa. It was one of the most famous singers, popular in radio and television for many years. Some of the most important songs he make very popular are "Bailinho da Madeira", "A Mula da Cooperativa", "Noites da Madeira".
He was born in January 20th 1918 ans died in May 29th of 1980.
Here we publish a list of some of the most important songs that he leaves us on his voice:


  • Noites da Madeira/Bailinho da Madeira,
  • Bailinho da Madeira/Noites da Madeira 
  • A Mula da Cooperativa / A Coisa / O Magala / O Homem do Trombone 
  • Porto Santo
  • 31
  • Sinal da Cruz
  • Pomba Branca, Pomba Branca/Quando a Dor Bateu à Porta 
  • As Bordadeira
  • Casei com uma Velha
  • Júlia Florista
  • Maria Rapaz
  • Maria tu tens a mania
  • Mas sou fadista
  • Mula da Cooperativa
  • Nem às paredes confesso
  • Noite
  • O Magala
  • Pomba Branca
  • Porto Santo
  • Rosinha dos Limões
  • Saudades da Ilha
  • Sinal da Cruz
  • Vielas de Alfama
Here we include a video with Max singing BATE O PÉ.



BATE O PÉ - MAX

DATA
SINGER - MAX
TITLE - BATE O PÉ
LABEL - COLUMBIA
MATRIX - D.C. 708
YEAR OF RECORDING - 1948

A PROCLAMAÇÃO DA REPÚBLICA



This record is the other side of "A Impantação da República" that we just publish today. Like the above  mentioned has an inscription "disco patriótico", which we can translate as "patriotic record". This is easy to understand because it has been made to commemorate the revolution that takes place in 1910 on October 5th in Lisbon.
The name of the recording "A Proclamação da República" is easy to understand for the english speaking reader, because it means "The Proclamation of Republic".

DATA
SINGER - VARIOUS
TITLE - A PROCLAMAÇÃO DA REPÚBLICA
LABEL - ODEON
MATRIX - 143024
YEAR OF RECORDING - 1911

A IMPLANTAÇÃO DA REPÚBLICA




As I previously mentioned the first sessions of recording made in Portugal take place in the year of 1900 in the city of OPORTO, in the north of Portugal.
Ten years later Portugal has become a Republic, after almost 900 years of kings ans queens. This records has been released to commemorate the revolution that takes place on the 5 of October of 1910.
The name in the record "A Implantação da República"can be translated to "The Implantation of Republic". This a reproduction of what happens in that day. 
We can listen the voices of the revolutionary militars during the combat.
We have the intention of release a serie of CD´s bring to the public all this sounds that have been kept in the private collections.
This is not an easy task because of all the work envolved, specially if we want to make a good digitalizations. This envolves a lot of money and we need to get some support from the instituions. 
This blog pretends to show many of the records we have in our archives to see if we can get attention to get the necessary funds to go ahead with our main proposal.

Here we have a video about the Implantação da República:



DATA
SINGER - VARIOUS
TITLE - A IMPLANTAÇÃO DA REPÚBLICA
LABEL - ODEON
MATRIX - X-143026
YEAR OF RECORDING - 1911

domingo, 19 de agosto de 2012

AMÁLIA RODRIGUES




BARCO NEGRO is one of the most known fados in the voice of AMÁLIA RODRIGUES, the most famous portuguese interpreter of FADOAMÁLIA RODRIGUES has recorde more than 800 LP and EP around the world and his for sure the most important portuguese singer of all times.We have in our collection quite all those LP and also EP. We have a project to publish a book with all those covers and the history behind each one of those records.But for know we only want to start publishing some examples of the most important interpreters of FADO between the years of 1900 and 1960.

Amalia speaks about BARCO NEGRO and sings the famous song in this video:


And here the complete song by AMALIA RODRIGUES:

BARCO NEGRO - AMÁLIA RODRIGUES II



DATA
SINGER - AMÁLIA RODRIGUES
TITLE - BARCO NEGRO
LABEL - COLUMBIA
MATRIX - BF 685
YEAR OF RECORDING - 1955

DUARTE SILVA




The image you see here is one of those 82 records.

We know that many of those records are in good condition and we be released in the next future. When that happens we will come here to give you news about that.
We have two more records of this session which photo will be published later in this page.

Here is a video with this song where the singer is another famous interpreter os Coimbra Song, named Alberto Ribeiro:



DATA
SINGER - DUARTE SILVA
TITLE - FADO HYLARIO
LABEL - BERLINER
MATRIX - 62647
YEAR OF RECORDING - 1900
PORTUGUESE FADO RECORDS 
ON 78 RPM



FADO has become WORLD HERITAGE!
Our aim with this blog is to start listing portuguese fado records on 78 rpm, specially the names of the singers, the dates of the recordings, publish the images of the labels.
This work will take several months, but will start in the next days.
We want to give all the details about the discography of portuguese fado records on 78 rpm.
Our collection is about 6500 records and we will need some time to complete this job.
We hope this could help people from other countries to understand that fado has been very important since 1900, year of the first session of recordings.