We Are Not Alone: Madredeus and Banda Cósmica with "Não Estamo Sós"

Today's random song, Não Estamo Sós, is by Portuguese band Madredeus & Banda Cósmica. Madredeus combines traditional Portuguese music with contemporary folk, creating melancholy songs that often, like fado, refer to the sea, traveling or absence. This may sound like fado, but fado is a subgenre of the type of traditional music of Portugal that Madredeus draws from. The band was largely unknown for a long while outside of Portugal, but became internationally known when filmmaker Wim Wenders asked them to perform for the soundtrack of his movie Lisbon Story and the soundtrack received rave reviews. Banda Cósmica is a portion of Madredeus that brings in new instrumentation, such as African instruments and percussion. They have released twenty albums to date. Não Estamo Sós is from their 2009 album A Nova Aurora.

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Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madredeus