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*Eduardo Nascimento - O vento mudou*

A set of romantic and whimsical ballads by Eduardo Nascimento. Side B is heavily inspired by the french chanson, especially the melancholic "Um homem só" filled with the charming longing of solitude and lost love. What is interesting is the balance between melancholy and hopefulness between sides A and B. Side A features the popular "O vento mudou" a song released in 1967 and that won the portuguese eurovision national contest.Eduardo Nascimento represented Portugal in the festival and reached 12th in the competition. The theme was eventually recorded in later years by bands like UHF and Delfins. 

"Eduardo Nascimento was also an important figure in portuguese popular music, being the first black man to win the RTP song festival and therefore representing Portugal in 1967 in the Eurovision. At the time, the RTP song festival was an event of great prestige, media recognition and a place where national prestige was shown. The fact that Portugal's representative was a black man attempted to reverberate the alleged portuguese multiracialism , even though there were other factors, such as the song lyrics and formal inovations that exposed the limits of a more nationalistic approach.

Eduardo Nascimento was also the vocalist of Os Rocks, a band that participated in the Yé Yé contest 1966/67, sponsored by the National Feminine movement that intended to turn the event into a mirror of imperial ideology, but it ended up being a moment of juvenile euphoria." 

in Fado Tropical by Marcos Cardão

The music on both sides is rather mellowed out tradicional pop infused with chanson and the lyrics express a very familiar kind of portuguese longing that is typical of another genre of music: Fado.

 

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