"Amália Hoje"
(Amália Today) is an album released on April 27, 2009, by the Portuguese
pop project "Hoje" (today), led by musician Nuno Gonçalves. Was
presented at the Belém Cultural Centre on April 1, 2009, the year
on which completed a decade over the death of the diva of fado.
"Amalia Hoje" presents itself as an album of fado of Amalia Rodrigues in the light of current pop sound.
The debut single was the theme "Gaivota" (Seagull), with the singing voice of Sonia Tavares leading voice of the Portuguese band "The Gift".
Amália Hoje was described as "an epic album, very organic, but heavy in terms of production," as featured recordings in London with the London Session Orchestra and was mixed in Dublin and Madrid.
"Gaivota" (Seagull) - Lyrics Translation
If a seagull would come
Bring me the sky of Lisbon
In the drawing I would do,
In that sky where the look
It's a wing that does not fly,
Falters and falls into the sea.
What a perfect heart
would beat on my chest,
My love, in your hand
In that hand in which fit it
Perfectly my heart.
If a Portuguese sailor,
Wanderer of the seven seas
Whoever knows the first
To tell me what to invent,
If a shiny new look
In my gaze would tye up.
What a perfect heart
Would die in my chest,
My love in your hand
In this hand where perfect
Beated my heart.
(2x)
What a perfect heart
would beat on my chest,
My love, in your hand
In that hand in which fit it
Perfectly my heart. (3x)
"Amalia Hoje" presents itself as an album of fado of Amalia Rodrigues in the light of current pop sound.
The debut single was the theme "Gaivota" (Seagull), with the singing voice of Sonia Tavares leading voice of the Portuguese band "The Gift".
Amália Hoje was described as "an epic album, very organic, but heavy in terms of production," as featured recordings in London with the London Session Orchestra and was mixed in Dublin and Madrid.
"Gaivota" (Seagull) - Lyrics Translation
If a seagull would come
Bring me the sky of Lisbon
In the drawing I would do,
In that sky where the look
It's a wing that does not fly,
Falters and falls into the sea.
What a perfect heart
would beat on my chest,
My love, in your hand
In that hand in which fit it
Perfectly my heart.
If a Portuguese sailor,
Wanderer of the seven seas
Whoever knows the first
To tell me what to invent,
If a shiny new look
In my gaze would tye up.
What a perfect heart
Would die in my chest,
My love in your hand
In this hand where perfect
Beated my heart.
(2x)
What a perfect heart
would beat on my chest,
My love, in your hand
In that hand in which fit it
Perfectly my heart. (3x)
