It's the musical compilation of poems by Nobel laureate Jose Saramago, in 1966.
Manuel Freire is a little known singer of the younger Portuguese audience, but he recorded throughout his career many Portuguese poets with his music by or not, that became classics of Portuguese music. On this album he pays tribute to the writer and also the man of April, Jose Saramago.
The album "possible songs" was commissioned for the 25th anniversary celebrations of the April 25th, 1974. But is much more than that, is a collection of twelve poems written by José Saramago that were adapted to music sung by Manuel Freire, the arrangements are from Carlos Alberto Moniz. It is a pearl due to the beauty of the texts, this being one of the lesser known facets of the author, and also by the apparent simplicity of music. The poems cover a decade in which the writer was more connected to journalism, as a literature critic and columnist and it was first compilation dedicated solely to poetry.
"Speaks the old Restelo to the astronaut" is one of the themes of this album is not more than a glance at the world around us: "Here in the land, hunger persists / misery, mourning and famine again." "Circus" is another song that deserves special attention, talk about poets, "... it is not a person is an uncommon animal that escaped from its cage."
