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-by Britt Robson
M'bem di Fora expands the back-to-the-roots aesthetic of Lura's 2004 disc, Di Korpu Ku Alma, offering up a stylistic porridge of Creole, African, Latin, and Western-pop influences and sealing the 31-year-old singer's place as the heir to Cesaria Evora, the musical matriarch of Cape Verde. Although Lura's parents left the 10-island archipelago west of Senegal before she was born, she has immersed herself in its musical landscape. More free-ranging than the stately Evora, Lura revels in the jubilant melody of "Festa Di Nha Kumpadri," gracefully prances through the dipthong-heavy lyrics and sharp beats of "Galanton" like a stone skimmed over a pond, and wends her voluptuous voice alongside the lilting rhythms of "No Bem Fala." Only the brooding "As Agua," about the wait for rain in a dry August, disrupts a dozen musically diverse declarations of joy. 06/01/07 >> go there
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