Physical edition of Porembela's first EP, with beautiful artwork by Michał Poręba. Includes unlimited streaming of the EP via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download.
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This is our first version of this very popular Galician song. One which has been previously versioned by quite many others, but surely most well known on Leilía's version of it from their second album, "i é verdade, i é mentira" (leilia.net/discografia/disco-3/), where two towering figures of Galician folk, Antón Seoane and Nando Casal, contributed most of the music and the arrangements.
We will certainly go back over this beautiful song in the future but, in the meantime, featuring Gerardo's broken voice and Michał's very first attempt ever to sing in Galician.... we really hope you like "Manuel"!
Michał Poręba and Gerardo Albela have lived in seven different cultures, speak seven different languages… and could well
know seven thousand tunes!
Together they are Porembela, and they take you on a journey from the melodies of their different folklores, through to their own compositions, flowing from the simple to the elaborate....more
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