Rodrigo Leão, one of the most prominent Portuguese musicians with a sound international career, has just launched “Songs”, a record featuring all his songs in English and recorded with the collaboration on vocals of interatinal stars such as Divine Comedy’s Neil Hannon, Portishead’s Beth Gibbons and Scott Mathew. To mark the occasion, Rodrigo Leão invited these three musicians and other guests to take to the stage with him and his band in Lisbon and Oporto of which we give you one video with the king of coll Neil Hannon.
This founding member of the iconic Portuguese band Sétima Legião would later be also one of the founding members of Madredeus, having embarked on a solo careers and released a dozen of remarkable records mixing electronica with classical music influences and tones and tunes from different parts of the world, e.g. Brazil or Argentina.
Aside from the collaboration with the three aforementioned artists, Rodrigo Leão worked together with Ryuchi Sakamoto, in “Cinema”, an album considered by the magazine Billboards as one of the best of 2004.
Listen to “Songs” to listen to “Cathy” with Neil Hannon and other songs in this album and check his bio and work at www.rodrigoleao.pt to have a clearer picture of the work by this composer.
Converse teams up with the dysfunctional Simpson family
Converse has just announced a new addition to its wide range of sneakers. America’s most dysfunctional family formed by Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie are the new stars of The Simpsons Chuck Taylor All Star Collection featuring colourful graphics depicting the characters of this TV series.
Fans of The Simpsons, whose makers are just finishing the 25th season can now buy sneakers in blue and black with Homer image and a caption saying “D’oh!” on one side and “Woo Hoo!” on the other, or go for a model depicting Bart writing: “I will not waste chalk,”. But should you wish to get a pair of Converse featuring the whole family, just go for The Family sneaker showing all members of this mad family in their cosy environment.
