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Adalu, Moods and the Portuguese Consulate in Zurich present the “Lusosonic Festival” - an intimate festival with a strong musical presence. A powerful sound journey through contemporary lusophone music. The program brings together promising talents from Portugal, Cape Verde, Angola and Brazil and demonstrates the diversity and strength of the current musical landscape in the Lusophone world.

An unmistakable, expressive voice and expansive music based on fado: this is 'Fado Camões', the album by Portuguese singer and composer LINA_. Fado Camões' is a unique composition based on the classic poetry of Portugal's most famous historical poet, Luís Vaz de Camões. "I became curious, I wanted to know more, beyond the 'Lusíadas' or 'Sonetos'", explains LINA_, "and I discovered that his themes - change, childhood, love, heartbreak or the description of nature - fit into the context of fado and its metrics."The simple elegance of the recent past is still there, but now there is a new spaciality in which the voice stands out amidst the silence of guitar and violin. It's about language, writing, poetry and the structure of Camões' poems, combined with the expression and 'saudade' of fado.