Sétima Legião
Sétima Legião was a Portuguese pop band from Lisbon.
History
The name in German means " Seventh Legion" and refers to the Roman army, which was sent to the area of today's Portugal, the former Roman province of Lusitania. The group was founded in 1982 under the influence of New Wave bands, especially Joy Division, and mixed them with Celtic folk music, especially from the North of Portugal and Galicia from. The influence of the New Wave went to the first album in favor poppigerer sounds back, the melancholy mood but remained preserved and the traditional folk music, emphasizing it. Thus reinforced traditional variants of bagpipes, drums and flutes were used. After their album Mar d' Outubro reached in 1987 with over 15,000 copies sold silver status in Portugal, the following De -selling To speed Ausente (1989 ) then more than 25,000 units and was awarded a gold record. The singer Tereza Salgueiro of the band Madredeus was one of the guest musicians on the album. The following O Fogo did not reach such high sales figures.
Rodrigo Leão left the band in 1993, and then also the co-founders of Madredeus, in favor of his solo career. Sétima Legião were considered to be dissolved in the music scene of the country, and the album Fé de car with live recordings in 1994 was regarded as a farewell album. However, in 1998 they surprised with a new album, which contained an unusually high proportion of contemporary electronic music and also a number people orphans samples from television programs Povo que canta of ethnomusicologists Michel Giacometti from the early 1970s. The album received good reviews, but remained from earlier sales success, even on the basis of the few activities of the band, about appearances. In 2003 she came last with a concert and an accompanying exhibition of the group in appearance.
Her 30-year -anniversary appeared in 2012 with Memórias a compilation of their most important songs together with a DVD with old concert footage and video clips of the band. In the summer of the year the band played a series of concerts in Portugal, with a planned final farewell with the final concert on October 11, 2012 at the Coliseu do Porto.