Taking Luís de Freitas Branco’s book A Revolução Antes da Revolução as its starting point, Músicas de Lá para Hoje offers a sonic journey through a particularly intense period in Portuguese history, from 1969 to 1974. It was a time of unrest, change and expectation, marked by political, social and cultural shifts that often quietly anticipated a different future.

More than a musical retrospective, the session listens to the spirit of an era through songs, sonic experiments and other musical expressions that bear witness to the desires, tensions, contradictions and imagination of a country in transformation. It connects what people listened to then with what we can still recognise in those sounds today: music that belongs to its time yet continues to speak to the present.

Visual artist and illustrator Hugo Oliveira, who is connected to Matéria Prima — an independent space in Porto dedicated to music, publishing and contemporary culture —, leads the first session of the Cravo e Canela listening series.

The session takes place at Hakko as part of Bom(Barda) Natal 2026, presented by Associação Quarteirão Criativo.