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-by Mark Keresman
Later for those scholarly "purist" types that approach world music (or any music, anyhow) as if officiating over a museum treasure. One can over-scrutinize and over-venerate something to a point where any joy is sucked out of it. The lovely singer Lura, from Cape Verde (off the northwestern coast of Africa), has no use for that jive, either. She might likely feel music is all about anti-purity. While she sings solely in her native Portugese tongue, M'Bem di Fora, her second American release, is a sumptuous and tangy stew of Brazilian samba. Spanish flamenco, Tex-Mex conjunto, Portugese fado, and aspects of folk and pop styles from West Africa and North/South America. Lura's voice is dazzling -- throaty but clear, worldly-wise and self-assured but devoid of melodramatics. Her music -- a mixture of traditional and original tunes, featuring acoustic & electric guitars, acordion, harmonica, and bubbling percussion -- alternates moods suave and wistful, sleek and exultant. And I double-dog-dare you to sit still during the title song. timessquarerecords.net 05/01/07
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