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Transparente: CD Review
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Rolling Stone, Transparente: CD Review >>
Fado is the traditional music of Portugal -- proud, austere and deeply melancholic. Mariza is the music's biggest star for a reason: She sings it not as musty nostalgia but as exuberant twenty-first-century pop, with a low, mesmerizing alto that's as commanding as any pop singer today. On her third album, recorded in Rio de Janeiro with Caetano Veloso producer Jacques Morelenbaum, Mariza stretches beyond fado's rigid guitar arrangements, adding gentle Brazilian rhythms, classical strings and horns to give the songs a quiet expansiveness. Even the most traditional songs, like "Fado Portuges de Nos" ("Our Own Portugese Fado"), are vibrant and alive -- remaking fado's ancient sadness into a majestic modern sound
-by JASON FINE
11/03/05
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