Music
Filipe Raposo is considered by many a veritable alchemist of sounds, a reference of portuguese music, having worked with such notables as Sérgio Godinho, José Mário Branco, Janita Salomé or Amélia Muge.
In Viseu, the pianist presents Øcre to the audience. The first part in a trilogy of records based upon an artistic reflection on a ternary system of colours - red, black and white. For the musician it has always been of paramount importance to understand, anthropologically, what kind of symbolism colours hold, and in what way are they represented in paintings, cinema, literature or in theatre.
The album's dramaturgy was shaped around the different symbols, that the artist uncovered, related to the colour red/ochre: its connection to the birth of art, ambition, passion, life and death, its mystic relation to divinity, to blood and fire. Ochre, being intimately associated with the earth, gives this record a clear connection to the roots of our traditions and culture.
In Viseu, the pianist presents Øcre to the audience. The first part in a trilogy of records based upon an artistic reflection on a ternary system of colours - red, black and white. For the musician it has always been of paramount importance to understand, anthropologically, what kind of symbolism colours hold, and in what way are they represented in paintings, cinema, literature or in theatre.
The album's dramaturgy was shaped around the different symbols, that the artist uncovered, related to the colour red/ochre: its connection to the birth of art, ambition, passion, life and death, its mystic relation to divinity, to blood and fire. Ochre, being intimately associated with the earth, gives this record a clear connection to the roots of our traditions and culture.
Additional information
Piano and composition Filipe Raposo
© António Marinho da Silva
© António Marinho da Silva