Lisboa Orchestra

In the maze of the streets of Lisbon, Lisboa Orchestra gathers the crossed destinies of individuals who express themselves by the sound. Those paths of lives, which usually don’t come across, encounter in the film through the prism of music. Between tradition and modernity, Lisboets take us for 24 hours in the depths of the city, at a corner of a street, in unexpected districts, in mythic places, up to the roofs where resounds the rumbling of the city. By the music, the film reaches out the flow of sound that is broadcasted and spread into the streets of the city of the seven hills. The film makes play the Church of São Vicente’s bell in concert with the Baroque chords of an organ player, the noise of the rails of the famous yellow tramways, the ¬´kuduro¬ª rhythm by the Orelha Negra band’s drummer, the snaps of dominos in a café in Mouraria, a fado singer in a block party at Alfama and moreover the voice of an Angolan origin young rapper in the northern suburb of Amadora. Together they compose a fusional, hypnoticand improbable music and build up a new kind of orchestra.