Best of...
This page collect
all the best messages of the Madredeus' fans. They are messages left on the
messageboard, on the guestbook, or sent to the various mailing lists which talks
about Madredeus.
I have chosen them on the basis of the emotional value. In all of these messages
the writers wrote about their feelings, their state of mind, with their own
styles, their own passion.
Corvinus
Andorinha
vieirat@magellan.umontreal.ca
Great site. Just wanted to add something to the definition of fado and I guess
saudade since the two are linked. I once heard that fado is about "the
presence of absence". As anyone ever heard this before??
Thursday July 15 21:37 (message in the guestbook)
Mexico City, May
17° 1999
Hola, extraordinary Madredeus!
I'm Carmen again, from Mexico. I write you because it is inevitable for me to
do, because I need to say once more "thank you" for the indescribable
experiences that we have felt toghether, especially in the night in which you
played in the Zocalo of Mexico City. Nobody imagined that something like this
could be possible: the music and voice of Madredeus among the four building
which resume the history of my country, of my city; with the wind of that night
that made dance the flag in the middle of all of us, of all the people who was
there (the most underestimated evaluations, we were almost 80000), with you,
listening, dreaming, filling our young mexican heart with moving and strong
hopes... This night was greater than every word that can be said on it, and
it is, toghether with your music, intended for all of the corners of the world,
accompanying me, like the immense desire and the possibility of a future, of
a better present.
THANK YOU to everybody and to each one of you for this moment of creation.
Carmen
P.D. Greetings to the little Inês ... and to the good Marush, who was
so amaible during his stay here in Mexico.
Return everytime here to this side of the Atlantic, because we will be waiting
for your sail, listening to the sea.
"Hasta siempre" dear Teresa, Pedro, José, Carlos Maria and
Fernando. Hasta siempre.
(Carmen Ayala Barbosa, Carmen, nothing more)
--
(Ciudad de México, 17 de mayo de 1999.
Hola, entrañable Madredeus!
soy Carmen de nuevo, desde México. Les escribo porque me es inevitable
hacerlo, porque necesito decir una vez más ´gracias´ por
las indescriptibles experiencias que hemos compartido juntos, especialmente
la noche en que tocaron en el Zócalo de la ciudad de México. Nunca
imaginé que algo así fuera posible: la música y la voz
de Madredeus resonando entre los cuatro edificios que resumen la historia de
mi país, de mi ciudad; con el viento de esa noche que hacia danzar a
nuestra bandera en medio de todos nosotros, de todos los que estuvimos ahí
(que según las estimaciones más reservadas, fuimos alrededor de
80,000 personas), con ustedes, escuchando, soñando, llenando nuestro
joven mexicano corazón de conmovedoras y poderosas esperanzas... Esa
noche está más allá de cualquier palabra que pueda ser
dicha sobre ella, está junto con su música, tendida a todo lo
ancho de los espacios del mundo, acompañándonos, acompañándome,
como el deseo inmenso y la posibilidad de un futuro, de un presente mejor.
GRACIAS a todos y cada uno de ustedes por ese instante de creación que
echan al aire, dejándolo volar.
Carmen
PD. Saludos a la pequeña Inés ...y al buen Marush, que tan amable
fue durante su estancia en México. Ojalá pronto volvamos a vernos.
Regresen siempre a este lado del Atlántico, que aquí estaremos
aguardando su barco, a la orilla del mar.
Hasta siempre querida Teresa, Pedro, José, Carlos María y Fernando.
Hasta siempre.
(Carmen Ayala Barbosa, Carmen, nada más))
June, the 7th
Dear Madredeus,
by a collegue I heard (by luck) that you are going to be and play in the Netherlands
in February. When I heard that, my heart got a shiver. At home, I immediately
called some of my friends, you should have heard their screams and surprise!
I have been calling with the two theatres you will play in. Unfortunately, one
only had tickets for people who had an year-cart, for free tickets we have to
wait until the end of August (will I survive?). Though the other will send me
a reservation-list, if their are no tickets left for that list, we will have
to wait until September. So, now I hope that the list will be on the stairs
this afternoon, when I come home. And when I hopefully will have the tickets,
I only have to try to keep this a secret, until the 21th of July, so that I
can give them to my girlfriend, who has made me discover the beauty of your
music, for her birthday.
Thank you for coming, your sincerely,
Carole Brouwer
the Netherlands
(cnm.brouwer@stu.med.vu.nl)
Felix Arcila
cronos@eldish.net
I have had the opportunity to live the experience of being to a concert of Madredeus.
It happened in June 30° of 1999, in Mainz Germany, in a place called Volspark,
for more than two hours Teresa Salgueiro taught us what beauty is thanks to
her voice and feeling. The sobriety and the playing of the musicians, generated
a magical atmosphere which goes beyond the barriers of language and put us in
a place of peace for every human being.
(He tenido la fortuna de vivir la experiencia de estar en un concierto de Madredeus.
Esto sucedio el 30 de Junio de 1999, en Mainz Alemania, alli en un sitio llamado
Volspark, por mas de dos horas Teresa Salgueiro, nos aproximo a lo que es la
belleza hecha voz y sentimiento. La sobriedad en la ejecucion de los integrantes,
generaron un ambiente magico que va mas alla de las barreras de idioma y nos
acerca a un espacio de disfrute y paz para todos los seres humanos.)
Sunday July 4 05:45 (message in the guestbook)
Federico Lieberck
Hernández
zenobit_u2@yahoo.com
Hello Madredeus fans,
first of all I would like to thank Corvinus for this fantastic site....we waited
so impatiently to visit, because his work is really invaluable and we owe him
a lot, thank you Corvinus for your faith, your heart, and everything given to
our heroes....Madredeus, then....well....what can I say about them....? about
Teresa? about Pedro?
I don't think I could really express my feelings in these few words, I would
say that Madredeus has given me so much peace in my life, so much passion, many
times, when I have failed, and done things wrong, felt so sad, and so hopeless....and
just listen to their message of peace, with my deepest feelings, with all my
heart, everything, just there, and then, sitting in another place, in another
time, and another situation, listening in my mind that wonderful sound beyond
music, beyond everything....
Music....beautifull music, the rhythm, the melody, the passion, and then....over
everything....a miracle in portuguese...the voice of an angel.....ahhh.....gostei
de conhecer tua voz Teresa.......I still remember the moment when I heard her
voice for the first time....and then increasing my passion for Madredeus....every
album...a new history....everything....and then.....Madredeus in Mexico....I
couldn't believe it.....oh lord....I was so excited....
Went to "Teatro Metropólitan" and Zocalo concerts.....that
was one of the best moments in my life... looking all my people, together, women
criying....men smiling and feeling la verdadera saudade.....teenagers (like
me) who were fighting for justice in the University....everyone, there, to hear
the miracle.... the hope, in peace....thank you Madredeus.....
Favourite Madredeus Song: Alfama, O pastor
Favourite Madredeus Album: O Porto
Madredeus in three words: "a portuguese miracle"
Monday July 12 21:00 (message in the guestbook)
Madredeus, I am
a great fan of yours since a quite long time, more or less since your first
cd. I have all of your cds, I buyed your book and I saw the film "Lisbon
Story" by Wim Wenders, which I think is fantastic also because it has Madredeus
as actors. I still miss to see one of your concerts but I still miss the necessary
time and money.
Regarding your music it is beautiful, relaxing, quite spiritual and it transmits
us a great energy and leave us renewed. Up to now I have liked immensely every
cd of yours and all of the music, and even if it is a style of music not everybody
likes, it is really the best things produced in Portugal in this musical genre.
My friends and parents are not great admirers of this kind of music because
they think that it is classical music, but that was the things that attracted
me to your music, apart from the voice of Teresa Salgueiro which is the best
one of Portugal because it has an exquisite timbre which enters our hear at
the first listening.
I would like to say, in the end, that I play music and this passion of mine
is completed by the one for you which many times makes me relax and inspire
for my work at the university, and if I will be able to play music professionally
I would like immensely that my group could be like Madredeus, the best group
of Portugal and of the world.
(Eu sou uma grande fan vossa já à bastante tempo, mais ou menos
desde que editaram o vosso primeiro CD. Tenho todos os vossos Cds, comprei o
vosso livro e vi o filme "Lisbon Story" de Win Wenders, o qual achei
fantástico nem que seja pelo facto de ter como intérpretes os
Madredeus. Aquilo que me falta mesmo é ir assistir a um concerto vosso
mas a falta de tempo e a falta de dinheiro incapacitaram-me.
Quanto à vossa música ela linda, relaxante, bastante espiritual
que nos transmite uma grande energia e nos deixa como renovados por dentro.
Até agora gostei imenso de todos os Cds e de todas as músicas,
pois embora sendo um estilo de música que nem todas as pessoas gostem
e apreciem, ela é realmente aquilo que de melhor se faz em Portugal dentro
desse género musical.
Os meus amigos e parentes não são grandes apreciadores deste estilo
de música pois acham-na parecida com a chamada música clássica,
mas a mim é precisamente isso que me atrai na vossa música, para
além de gostar a voz da Teresa Salgueiro a mais bonita actualmente em
Portugal, pois tem um timbre de voz fantástica e que nos entra nos ouvidos
logo à primeira.
Para finalizar gostaria de dizer que toco música e que esta minha paixão
por ela é completada pela vossa que muita das vezes me faz relaxar e
até inspirar para os meus trabalhos universitários, e que se alguma
vez tocasse música profissionalmente gostaria imenso que o meu grupo
fosse como os Madredeus, o melhor grupo de Portugal e do Mundo.)
Marta Martins
It all started
about 7:00 o'clock when the desperation of seeing one of my favorite grous forced
me to depart from my house an hour and a half before the concert started, I
arrived there about an hour later, because the traffic was very heavy, anyway,
I was there and that's what mattered anyway. When the place was completely packed,
everybody was expecting, none of my friends showed up, but that really doesn't
mattered, at least for me, I was gonna see MADREDEUS, and I'm not talking just
about Teresa Salgueiro, I mean I think she is beatiful too but Madredeus is
a group, not a solo artist's project. In fact, Pedro Ayres is most important
in my opinion, because he is the principal songwriter in it.
Anyway, the group came in to the stage, I was really excited, and when they
hit the racks with "Haja o que Houver" it was like the best extasis
of my life at that time, I couldn't believe I was there when they played "Coisas
pequenas" or "A andorinha da primavera" Because those are great
songs played by a great group as well. When they played "Guitarra"
I had to shut my mouth off because I screamed as most of the people in my section
did, but It was because that song really got us, and when they closed the show
with "Alfama" I was completely excited but the nigth of the concert
was about to finish, but I got out completely impressed because I couldn't believe
I saw Madredeus.
Because of that and many other reasons It was like a dream come true for me
to see the group in front of me on April 12 1999 giving me and my female cousin
an autograph each, I just believe that wasn't a dream when I see the picture
that I have with Teresa Salgueiro in my back smiling to the camera, and when
I see the autograph in the "O Paraíso" cd book, specifically
in her picture that says "Para Daniel con muito carino TERESA SALGUEIRO"
Medina Daniel
I am an admirer
of Madredeus and particularly of Teresa Salgueiro.
My meeting and relative folgoration born, as always, from a prejudice.
One year ago I made a working travel to Lisbon and some of my collegues invited
me to go listening "fado". I declined because I imagined a "weighty"
music and I preferred the city of Lisbon during the night, fantastic!! One day,
in my city of Gaeta, toghether with the daily "La Repubblica" there
was a cd with musics from Portugal and I buyed it. The listening of the song
"Haja o que Houver" was schocking, I listened it so many times without
growing tired and the more I listened to it, the more it entered into me. My
sons Andrea and Matteo, remained enchanted as if an enchanter had conquered
their souls. I hurried up to buy the cd "O Paraíso" and recently
"Ainda" and the film "Lisbon Story".
I remained astonished not only by the artistical capabilities of the group but
also of the contents of their songs which are of an eemplar sensitivity, vitality
and deepness. The 16° of July I went to Caserta to see them playing and
the emotion and the waiting have been followed by two hours of celestial music.
I thank Madredeus, Teresa Salgueiro, Pedro Magalhães because they have
offered and they continue to offer a music which strike the heart and elevates
the soul
Thank you
Mimmo Mallardi
Marco Ortega
mortega77@yahoo.com
As always, Corvinus is giving us his spirit full of Madredeus, full of peace
and love made of words and images, images that are the mirror of ourselves and
that goes to our minds and sensitiviness. Thanks for giving us that mirror.
Favourite Madredeus Song: Andorinha da Primavera
Favourite Madredeus Album: O Paraiso
Madredeus in three words: Light, Love, Peace
Thursday August 26 17:14 (message in the guestbook)
Miguel Scaramozzino
decades@iname.com
August 9, 1999: I will remember this day. I was listening to Madredeus for the
first time, and to my surprise, I suddenly felt happy. I love music, but I had
never listened to something like this. Thank you Madredeus, wherever you are.
P.D.: Corvinus, your site is so wonderful...
Madredeus in three words: Sadness, Happiness, Life
Monday August 9 19:40 (message in the guestbook)
Shoaib Siddiqui
asiddiqui@msn.com
Thank you for your site. I am speechless. I just can't express myself. If I
start saying then I will run out of all adjectives in the english language.
Thanks again.
Monday August 9 19:07 (message in the guestbook)
Waldemar Burgos
margonal@yahoo.com
Since my first hearing of this group I've found myself discovering the beauty
of its music and Pedro Ayres Magalhães' ability to transmit a wide arrange
of scarcely experienced moods through his compositions and Teresa's voice. She
is definitely a treasure capable of singing the truths of solitude and the weird
joy that can be derived from mishap and from the mere contemplation of nature.
No other music group can subdue my emotions like this one does whenever I lend
myself to the high treat they offer the world in their songs. I eagerly expect
to attend one of their concerts.
I'm very happy to have found this site and congratulate whomever is in charge
of it for it's the best of its class.
Favourite Madredeus Song: A Cidade, Alvorada, Ao Longe o Mar, À Margem,
( It's too difficult a choice ! )
Favourite Madredeus Album: AINDA
Wednesday May 26 08:56 (message in the guestbook)
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