"Mother" - the sixth studio album by Rodrigo Leao, again with the Film Ensemble. The disc is not new, the date 2009, but an edition dedicated to mothers is almost mandatory recall this masterpiece of Portuguese music. Homage to the mother of musician and composer a universal music who reaches to all mothers everywhere.
Listen to "The Mother" is embarking on a trip around the world (several themes are inspired by the travels of the musician) and the deeper human being. Love, the purest and unconditionally all, between a mother and child, is present in some form in each of the songs in the most cheerful and mainly in the more introspective and nostalgic way.
Impossible not to feel a chill while listening to "Life So Strange," "Sleepless Heart," "Mother" or "Confidential." And what about "Cathy" with the unparalleled voice of Neil Hannon of The Divine Comedy, of "This Light Holds So Many Colours," sung by Stuart A. Staples of Tindersticks? Or "I don’t no nothing", with the participation of Argentine Daniel Melingo? All of them unique melodies, unforgettable, are arrows pointing to the heart.
Co-founder in 1982 of longing and pioneers Seventh Legion, and later of Madredeus, who he left in 1993 to devote himself exclusively to his solo career, which began to take off. "Ave Mundi Luminare", "Mysterium" and "Theatrum" were well received but it is with "Alma Mater" in 2000, he wins wings, winning new audiences thanks to an irresistible fusion of chamber music with pop.
Rodrigo Leão is synonymous with talent and success in Portugal and already all over the world. It was no accident that artists such as Ryuichi Sakamoto and Beth Gibbons (Portishead) agreed to participate in his disc - "Cinema" of 2004, an album that was considered by Billboard magazine as the best of years and reconnected the pop musician, keeping the classic record that is his trademark. A merger in "The Mother" gains even more strength. A disc an absolute must for music lovers. A disc that all mothers of the world should hear.
