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A beautiful fado performed by admirable Dolce Ponte.

A video wise crafted, offering memories of full emotions, eulogy of fishermen and sailors, remembering family stories and becoming, grace to use of sepia , a travel in past , as eulogy of lost lives, unique romances, freedom and adventure spirit and the sea itself, which color seems evoked by sepia tones.

The instrumental part is brilliant, suggesting, in fair manner, the fight against waves and the feelings of people on shore.

In short, one of beautiful crafted videos, proposing a touching story, powerful memories and a magnificent performance.

The classic Portuguese song "Canção do Mar" composed by Frederico de Brito and Ferrer Trindade in the early 1950's gets a special treatment on the voice of Dulce Pontes. If you don't know the song by name you definiely know by its classical dramatic arrangements or because of its inclusion on the 1996 film "Primal Fear" or the TV series "Southland" (a producer of both projects is a big fan of the track); here in Brazil is closely associated with the soap opera "Os Ossos do Barão" - thanks to a college friend and this information that I got acquainted with the song's title but I always remembered the instrumental section from the opening. So here we have this amazing video, shot in sepia color showcasing the melancholic yet beautiful locations in Lisbon (I think...) reflecting the song, the ocean (I mean, it's "Song of the Sea" the song title).

It's a very romantic song that combines the ideal of famous Portuguese sailors conquering the seas in distant centuries aligned with an idea of romance, love, affection in a poetry that mixes terms from both ideals to compose its whole. It's very good but I fell in love with the chilling instrumental part, pretty much like a classical music that can give you many feelings at the same time, it's quite dramatic, full of melody and it stays with you for a long time.

It's a beautiful video with the young Dulce performing the song (hard to believe she was in her early 20's when she recorded the song, you imagine a veteran singer performing it since she really had a lady's voice. Very beautiful), walking and dancing around the lonely beach, images of nature, the ocean, the distant lighthouse and some archive image of people waving goodbye to other people on a ship evoking the memories of navigators who faced brave oceans to conquer the new world. It's a quite poetic video and one that I keep revisiting a lot lately. Check it out. 8/10.