Genre
Galician folk music. The album draws on the full breadth of the Galician traditional repertoire - including muiñeiras, pandeiretadas, romances, and foliadas - alongside settings of texts by contemporary Galician poets such as Marica Campo Domínguez and Xosé Luís Freire Rodríguez and adaptations of poems by the Portuguese poet Manuel Alegre.
Release
Released in 1981 on Ruada Records, Galicia's principal independent folk music label of the period. A reissue on the Edigal label followed in 1984 in a gatefold sleeve. It was the group's fifth studio album.
Production
Self-produced by Fuxan os Ventos, with arrangements credited to individual members for each track - principally Xosé Luís Freire Rodríguez and Xosé Luís Rivas Cruz, who also contributed compositions. Xosé Luís Freire Rodríguez served as arranger on the majority of tracks.
Reception
The album is regarded as one of the key documents of the Galician folk revival of the late 1970s and early 1980s, valued for both its musical and its political and cultural dimensions - the preservation and dignification of the Galician language through traditional song at a pivotal moment in Spain's transition to democracy.
Fuxan os Ventos
Fuxan os Ventos is a modern Galician folk music group, founded in 1972 in Lugo, Galicia, who sing in Galician. Their repertoire focuses on Galician traditional music, both strictly popular material and original compositions, and their commitment to the socio-political reality of Galicia resulted in the addition of songs denouncing the suppression of Galician identity - setting the poems of male and female Galician authors to music as a claim of a people, a language, and a culture. The group emerged from the broader Galician cultural movement of the dictatorial period, alongside contemporaries such as Milladoiro and Emilio Cao. They managed to rescue many songs from oblivion and to reach all strata of Galician society, and with more than nine albums published and more than forty years of music-making, Fuxan os Ventos has crossed borders and generations.
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