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Artist:	BANDA DO CASACO
Title:	Hoje Há Conquilhas Amanhă Sabemos
Label:	CNM (PORTUGAL)
Format:	CD
Price:	$21.00
Catalog #:	CNM 168CD

"For the first time, Portuguese prog folk outfit Banda do Casaco's third album is finally available on CD. Acclaimed in 1977 as best record of the year in its own country, Hoje Há Conquilhas Amanhă Sabemos has long been unavailable in any format. In more recent years, worldwide acclaim has been recognized to this masterpiece, which resulted in the original vinyl version changing hands for high values. Originally released in 1977, one year after Banda do Casaco's second LP, Coisas do Arco da Velha, this record marked the debut within the group of guitar player and flutist Tó Pinheiro da Silva (then-member of prog rock group Perspectiva). Basing part of their repertoire in the traditional folk songs of Portugal, Banda do Casaco presents here one of their best works in reinventing this rich legacy. The subversion of the canons of what we normally know as folk song reaches surrealistic edges in tracks like 'Geringonça' or 'Despique.' In other ones, like the great 'País: Portugal,' there are acute musical and lyrical portraits of Portugal and its capital city Lisbon (as the lyrics state, 'giant and poor-thinking head that is born between the legs of river Tagus'), as both entities keep drowned in their collective ghosts and fear to free themselves from this state of apathy. The complex sounds constructed here place Banda do Casaco among the best folk rock made internationally in 1977 -- Steeleye Span's Storm Force 10, Jethro Tull's Songs From the Wood, Gryphon's Treason or Brittany's cherished treasures like Malicorne's homonymous fourth album and Alan Stivell's Before Landing."

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