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Penguin Eggs, CD / DVD Review >>
The stately, melancholic sounds of fado. Portugal's distinctive urban folk music, haven't been taken up as widely as other Latinate music, partly because its practitioners tend to treat it with a reverence that precludes tarting it up with programmed heats and other world music influences. Once the rest of the world does catch on to fado, Mariza is a cinch to become its biggest star.
Captured in concert in 2005 with the Sinfonietta de Lisboa behind her, Mariza displays the powerful pipes, supple phrasing and piercing sadness earned through a lifelong devotion to the form's traditions. Better yet, the CD comes bundled with a an hour-long documentary, Mariza and the Story of Fado, which provides historical context, gorgeous footage of Lisbon, and a tour of some of the city's fado bars, where you get to hear Mariza and other fado singers in appropriately intimate settings.
- by Scott Lingley
07/01/07
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