M-PeX - Phado
ARTIST........: M-PeX
TITLE.........: Phado
LABEL.........: Thisco / Fonoteca
URL...........: http://www.myspace.com/mpex
GENRE.........: Electronic / Fado
QUALITY:......: 191 kbps avg/ 44100Hz / Joint Stereo
RIP DATE......: 2008-05-01
RELEASE DATE..: 2007-12-00
Tracklist:
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01. Phado 3:32
02. Phado Menor 5:07
03. Hydheia 5:17
04. The Cloud's Whispering Song 5:05
05. Phadistikal 5:17
06. Melodia Perdida 5:08
07. Almathika 5:06
08. Melodia Da Saudade 2:32
09. Balada Do Tejo 3:43
Total 40:47
Release Notes:
Tradition embraces modernity in a relationship as promiscuous as it is fruitful
and truly interesting. M-PeX is a project that allies the Portuguese Guitar to
electronic music, and dares to explore musical landscapes never visited before.
A bold experiment that sets a test for our ears, that dares to break down
clichΘs and which proves that traditional music can also be modern, or
vice-versa. Imagine the crystalline sound of a Portuguese Guitar. Imagine a
laptop knocking out electronic rhythms. M-PeX is just that, electronic music
with Portuguese Guitar. Or maybe it's Portuguese Guitar with electronics. Either
way, the project mingles apparently irreconcilable music styles. But it is
possible after all. The result is neither Fado nor electronic music, nor even
the sum of the two, it's something more: it's something indefinable that is born
of the marriage of tradition and innovation.
Born in Lisbon in 1979. He began by playing the guitar to accompany Fado with
his grandfather Luφs Tomßs Pinheiro, who plays the Portuguese Guitar in Fado
houses, restaurants and private functions. For a birthday, his grandfather gave
him a Portuguese Guitar, and thereafter began to teach him some of his craft and
methods. In parallel, as result of an ongoing interest in producing electronic
music, in 1999 the project M-PeX is born, which allows the inclusion of the
Portuguese Guitar, attempting to create unusual atmospheres in the national
music scene, mixing sound aesthetics as different as Fado, Dub, Broken'Beat and
Drum'n'Bass. Marco Miranda is also responsible for the programme "Puntz!", on
Fridays at 00h to 01h on the Instituto Superior TΘcnico's Radio Zero -
www.radiozero.pt - wholly dedicated to Abstract / Experimental / Broken'Beat /
Ragga / Drum'n'Bass / Jungle. There some original themes emerge, national
projects are promoted and some sounds are disseminated that have dominated and
continue to dominate the Drum'n'Bass /Electronic scene.