Red Bull Music Academy
Lusofonia: a (r)evolution (2006) by the Red Bull Music Academy
Portugal, 60′, Production: Red Bull Music Academy
In Portugal, we can find a new generation of musicians, producers and DJs that, focused on aesthetic and technologic mutations in music, preserve the distinctive traits of the “cultura lusófona”, which they are a part of. This movement in music sums up five centuries of history and through it Lisbon stands out as a stage of different musical elements that are part of the “herança (heritage) lusófona” : coladeras mixed with jazz, kuduro beats with hip-hop, reggae and crioulo. Lusofonia, a revolution is a way of looking at the creative enthusiasm that characterizes the music production in Portugal at the present moment.