"Bendito das Trovoadas" is a traditional song from Beira Baixa. "Bendito" means "blessed" and "trovoada" means "thunder" in portuguese, and it's said that this song was played as a kind of a prayer to keep the thunder away.

Bendito Das Trovoadas

"O Meu Rapaz", which in portuguese means something like "my boy", is a song that expresses the hurt that can be caused by love. The person that sings this song is somehow waiting to be found by their loved one. It's a traditional song from Beira Baixa, where there are groups of women that sing songs along with adufe, a square drum played with two hands which is typical from this region of Portugal. We took the inspiration for this track from one of this groups.
For the back vocals on this track, we had the help of our friends Sebastião Antunes (Sebastião Antunes e Quadrilha, Gaiteiros de Lisboa) and Stela Silva (B'rbicacho), who helped us to make this track sound so great. Thank you so much, guys!

O Meu Rapaz

This is an original song composed for the so called Trás os Montes bagpipe ("Gaita Transmontana" in portuguese). For this song, instead following the traditional models for bagpipe songs, the goal was to try to do something with a more modern sound to it.

Perfeito Desconhecido

"Jota de Rio de Onor" is a traditional song that was played and sung by Juan Prieto Ximeno, a bagpiper that used to live in Rio de Onor, which is a village placed in the region of Bragança, Trás os Montes. Half of this village is portuguese and the other half is spanish, which explains why the lyrics are half in portuguese and half in spanish. This man remains a huge inpiration for portuguese bagpipers.

Jota De Rio De Onor

They come from the North, South, East and West. The winds that make us spin come from our country and others, bringing us the inspiration for the sounds that we create and re-create. They come from tradition but also from modernity.
Cataventos presents as a portuguese identity music project in which many different influences get along through the sensitivity and experience of its musicians: portuguese and other countries traditional music get together with other modern genres through portuguese traditional instruments such as bagpipes, traditional precussions, cavaquinho and campaniça guitar, to which the vocals are added, to create original compositions and re-create songs and music that already exist.
Cataventos. Anywhere the wind blows.

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