MONSANTO FEST 2017, 7/5/2017
AMOR ELECTRO WITH SIMONE DE OLIVEIRA
This year there’s no Monsanto Fest (a music festival with free entrance, in Benfica, Lisbon, Portugal), but last year there was, between 5 and 7 of May. I saw two concerts and photographed one, the last of the festival ─ Amor Electro with the participation of Simone de Oliveira. The band went through a great part of their most well known repertoire maintaining the quality we are used to hear. Simone de Oliveira was truly remarkable, both when she sang solo and when she sang in duet with Marisa (the voice of Amor Electro). Once again both proved very well that singing and emotions have no age or style.
“Soul music” is an expression long associated with black music and for very good reasons, because that’s the true origin of soul music. In soul music the interpretation becomes as important as the melody and harmony themselves. And the words deeply uttered don’t lose part of their meaning in the middle of the sound. Well, I find exactly the same kind of feeling in some Portuguese music that mixes tradition and new tendencies, but mainly preserving the importance of a perfect mingling between words and music. It’s from that combination that deep emotions arise and stay inscribed in the soul ears. Even if the rhythm was different and the instruments were absent, the soul chord would remain. The rhythm and the musical enfold just add more body and a spectacular dimension to the whole and in a live show that counts.
Neither Amor Electro nor Simone de Oliveira play / sing soul music but the result is similar. Along the last decade, Amor Electro have been mixing tradition and what we may call “electro-pop” in a new way, presenting, for example, some unexpected and interesting versions of Amalia’s fados.
Only a few know the pictures below, now they are public. They are just a glimpse to one more moment in time.
AMOR ELECTRO official site - http://www.amorelectro.com/
AMOR ELECTRO Youtube official channel - https://www.youtube.com/user/AmorElectroOfficial
AMOR ELECTRO official site - http://www.amorelectro.com/
AMOR ELECTRO Youtube official channel - https://www.youtube.com/user/AmorElectroOfficial
Amor Electro & Simone de Oliveira - Monsanto Fest 2017, photography by São Ludovino.
Amor Electro & Simone de Oliveira - Monsanto Fest 2017, photography by São Ludovino.
Amor Electro & Simone de Oliveira - Monsanto Fest 2017, photography by São Ludovino.
Amor Electro & Simone de Oliveira - Monsanto Fest 2017, photography by São Ludovino.
Amor Electro & Simone de Oliveira - Monsanto Fest 2017, photography by São Ludovino.
Amor Electro & Simone de Oliveira - Monsanto Fest 2017, photography by São Ludovino.
Amor Electro & Simone de Oliveira - Monsanto Fest 2017, photography by São Ludovino.
Amor Electro & Simone de Oliveira - Monsanto Fest 2017, photography by São Ludovino.
Amor Electro & Simone de Oliveira - Monsanto Fest 2017, photography by São Ludovino.
Amor Electro & Simone de Oliveira - Monsanto Fest 2017, photography by São Ludovino.
Amor Electro & Simone de Oliveira - Monsanto Fest 2017, photography by São Ludovino.
Amor Electro & Simone de Oliveira - Monsanto Fest 2017, photography by São Ludovino.
Amor Electro & Simone de Oliveira - Monsanto Fest 2017, photography by São Ludovino.
Amor Electro & Simone de Oliveira - Monsanto Fest 2017, photography by São Ludovino.
Amor Electro & Simone de Oliveira - Monsanto Fest 2017, photography by São Ludovino.
Amor Electro & Simone de Oliveira - Monsanto Fest 2017, photography by São Ludovino.
Amor Electro & Simone de Oliveira - Monsanto Fest 2017, photography by São Ludovino.
Amor Electro & Simone de Oliveira - Monsanto Fest 2017, photography by São Ludovino.
Amor Electro & Simone de Oliveira - Monsanto Fest 2017, photography by São Ludovino.
Amor Electro & Simone de Oliveira - Monsanto Fest 2017, photography by São Ludovino.
Amor Electro & Simone de Oliveira - Monsanto Fest 2017, photography by São Ludovino.
Amor Electro & Simone de Oliveira - Monsanto Fest 2017, photography by São Ludovino.
Amor Electro & Simone de Oliveira - Monsanto Fest 2017, photography by São Ludovino.
Amor Electro & Simone de Oliveira - Monsanto Fest 2017, photography by São Ludovino.
Amor Electro & Simone de Oliveira - Monsanto Fest 2017, photography by São Ludovino.
Amor Electro & Simone de Oliveira - Monsanto Fest 2017, photography by São Ludovino.
Amor Electro & Simone de Oliveira - Monsanto Fest 2017, photography by São Ludovino.
Amor Electro & Simone de Oliveira - Monsanto Fest 2017, photography by São Ludovino.
Amor Electro & Simone de Oliveira - Monsanto Fest 2017, photography by São Ludovino.
Amor Electro & Simone de Oliveira - Monsanto Fest 2017, photography by São Ludovino.
Amor Electro & Simone de Oliveira - Monsanto Fest 2017, photography by São Ludovino.
Amor Electro & Simone de Oliveira - Monsanto Fest 2017, photography by São Ludovino.
Amor Electro & Simone de Oliveira - Monsanto Fest 2017, photography by São Ludovino.
Amor Electro & Simone de Oliveira - Monsanto Fest 2017, photography by São Ludovino.
Amor Electro & Simone de Oliveira - Monsanto Fest 2017, photography by São Ludovino.
Amor Electro & Simone de Oliveira - Monsanto Fest 2017, photography by São Ludovino.
Amor Electro & Simone de Oliveira - Monsanto Fest 2017, photography by São Ludovino.
Amor Electro & Simone de Oliveira - Monsanto Fest 2017, photography by São Ludovino.
Amor Electro & Simone de Oliveira - Monsanto Fest 2017, photography by São Ludovino.
Amor Electro & Simone de Oliveira - Monsanto Fest 2017, photography by São Ludovino.
