LINA_ announces "Saudades de Coimbra", the first single from her forthcoming album COIMBRAS, to be released November 20. Once again, the new work is produced by Justin Adams, with John Baggott on piano and keys.

With COIMBRAS, LINA_ continues along an artistic path that has become unique in the Portuguese music scene: revisiting Fado from a restless, contemporary and creatively open perspective, while never losing sight of its historical and emotional depth.

Following Fado Camões, which blended Camões's poetry with Fado and contemporary musical languages, LINA_ now turns to the Fado of Coimbra, not to reproduce a tradition, but to reveal new ways of listening and reinterpret it as a living, ever-changing territory.

Composed in 1920, "Saudades de Coimbra" is a song of longing written for the city as much as for a person — its saudade a collective memory of student life, farewells and the Mondego River as constant witness. The recording begins and ends with the University of Coimbra's tower bell, A Cabra: a sound that marked generations of students both the time to get up and the time to leave.

LINA_ on the song:

"Saudades de Coimbra" is a song born of memory, yet one that looks towards the horizon. I draw on the spirit of Coimbra's Fado to open up new landscapes, new sounds and new destinations for it. I want this song to break free from its roots, travel the world and find the freedom to become something else — while never ceasing to be itself!