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.
Come to the Daftside
Nicolas Jaar and David Harrington, two Djs and musicians also known for their work under the name Darkside, have released their own remixes of entire Daft Punk’s most recent album “Randon Access Memories”. Under Daftside they came up with their own remixes, thus granting a more 21st century to the rather 1970’s sound by the French duo. These 14 remixes provide a wide range of new proposals to the original album, staying true somehow to the mood of the album, but with pints of dub and downtempo and new sound proposals. For those who can’t stand “Get Lucky” anymore and prefer the more muscular sound of Daft Punk without the funky vocals, this set of remixes comes with an instrumental version.
Some claim this is a parody, others claim this is just a comm DJ exercise. This saga has just begun as Daft Punk themselves are expected to launch their own remixes to “Random Access Memories”. Don’t miss the Daft sequel in a club or radio near you. Meanwhile hear the full Daftside remixes here: https://soundcloud.com/#daftside-2
