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Release Date: 2020-12-04Label: Redgold Records
A musical adventure “through seas never navigated before”, inspired by the epic poetry of sixteenth century Portuguese writer Luís de Camões.The music is symphonic, with melodic phrases, rhythm patterns, musical textures, and harmonic sequences resurfacing and developing through the album.
Featuring extraordinary musicians from Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissaue, Mozambique, and Portugal alongside the regular Grand Union Orchestra members from the UK, China, India, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Australia, and St Lucia.
Words from Camões himself and celebrated contemporary Portuguese writer Manuel Alegre are set to music by Tony Haynes, along with original lyrics by David Bradford.