Tradisome

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Tradisome
Active years since 1992
founder José Moças
Seat Vila Verde
Website www.tradisom.com
Genre (s) Folk , world music , fado , traditional music , classical music

Tradisom is a music label from Portugal that publishes traditional music , fado , classical music and folk in particular . It also operates as a book publisher . It is based in Vila Verde and has been operating since 1992.

The label was founded primarily to document musical traditions and historical recordings from Portugal and to make them known. Tradisom's publications are accordingly accompanied by supplements which, in addition to accompanying texts and photos, often also contain musicological contributions.

history

Originally from the Alentejo , José Moças founded Tradisom in 1992 while working for radio in Macau . He was on vacation in London, buying an old Portuguese shellac record from a fado recording at the His Master's Voice store on Oxford Street . He was surprised at the quality of the recording and played the record on the radio. Subsequent inquiries aroused his interest, so that from then on he collected shellac records. From then on, he published a large number of Portuguese recordings from 1900 to 1950 on his newly founded Tradisom label.

Since then, Tradisom has focused on historical recordings and traditional music from Portugal and its former colonies . This orientation is also reflected in the chosen name, which is formed from the Portuguese words Tradição (German: tradition) and Som (German: tone, sound).

Founder José Moças, who is now considered one of the most important collectors of shellac records in Portugal, has published part of his collection with a number of important Tradisom editions, including early Fado recordings, for example by Ercília Costa , which the genre in the 1930s and 40s First made internationally known years ago. The retrospective of the forgotten, formerly world-famous tenor Lomelino Silva (1892–1967) is one of them.

Publications (selection)

CDs

Books

  • José Alberto Sardinha: A Viola Campaniça - O Outro Alentejo , book about the Viola Campaniça , a traditional guitar instrument from the Alentejo
  • 2004 Paulo Lima, Augusto Brázio (photos): O Fado Operário no Alentejo , with two CDs
  • 2005 Carlos Clara Gomes: Auto da Fonte dos Amores - Pedro e Inês , book and CD recording of the opera about the tragic love story of Inês and King Pedro
  • 2010 José Alberto Sardinha: A Origem do Fado , with four CDs
  • 2012: Judite dos Santos Correia da Cruz: As tradições portuguesas em França , book about the traditions lived in the Portuguese diaspora in France
  • 2015: Amália no Mundo , book edition with two CDs and an LP with international recordings by Amália Rodrigues

DVDs

  • 2011: Filmografia Completa , the filmography of the French ethnologist Michel Giacometti with the complete television series "Povo que canta" from the 1970s for the Portuguese public television RTP , edition of 12 books with 10 DVDs or two CDs, in collaboration with the Daily newspaper Público .
  • 2016: O Povo Que Ainda Canta , the complete television series by the director Tiago Pereira for the public television RTP2, edition with book and 8 DVDs.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Entry of the Tradisom label on the website of the world music fair WOMEX , accessed on July 28, 2016
  2. ↑ Self Portrait of the label on the website of the label, accessed on July 28, 2016
  3. ↑ a b Article about José Moças and his label Tradisom on the website of the University of Aveiro , accessed on July 28, 2016
  4. ↑ Statements in the documentary Música em Pó (2015, directed by Eduardo Morais), can be seen a. a. on YouTube under Documentário "Música em Pó" (eng subtitles) , accessed on July 28, 2016