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Lura's music and her dvd, come together in a slick and alluring package entitled Pi Korpu Ku Alma (Lusafrica/ Escondida 1-2). Much has been written about the sex-appeal marketing of this package and it's all true. This young, doe-eyed Cape Verdean beauty's disc has pretty much nothing directly in common with Cesaria Evora's music and why should it? Expect harder beats, buoyant international pop music influence and a tremendous amount of steel-string African guitar to give more than a little relief from the melancholy nylon- stringed morna monopoly. Evora branded Verdean music as indelibly Iberian, tragic and care-worn: Lura's just shaking things up and that's a good thing. Hey young people/ don't say anything to me/Today, at least I just want to have fun... Hey you, Bitori de Praia/ don't look so glum/ 's no point/ We're going to have fun. There's more depth to this young singer than one might immediately assume. One Billie Holiday notion is for a black woman to have a good time is a revolutionary act in this world that 'bukes and scorns her continually from morning to night. So go ahead and party. Lura. that's ail I can say. There's an accompanying dvd in this package, but I think readers of this column will either buy the album or not based on the musical side and view the col lection of videos as something that takes up an extra disc space on the shelf, so I'm not giving it any ink. Highly recommneded. 11/01/05
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