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The diatonic accordion – known in Portugal as the concertina – is an instrument designed in the first half of the 19th century and subsequently perfected by various European builders, which even today echoes memories of another way of inhabiting the musical space: a time before discs and radio. It remains, however, a machine for building dreams, and therefore a machine for inventing possible futures, for making meaning.

In May 1989, Artur Fernandes, Filipe Cal, Filipe Ricardo and Francisco Miguel organised themselves around a dream: to develop their skills as performers while investigating the possibilities of moving the instrument away from the conservatism of folklore, respecting what they then understood as the ‘will of the concertina’, but making new music for it. These times led to a name for the quartet and the first disc of the same name, Danças Ocultas (1996).

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