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Pitchfork, Artist Review >>
Cesária Évora is the queen of morna, the melancholy national music of her home country of Cape Verde. She's long been the music's international ambassador, and at 68, her voice is full of suave gravity. This track and the album it comes from, Nha Sentimento, play around with the boundaries of the centuries-old style, acknowledging the jazz and Cuban influence that seeped in during the 20th century and bringing in some stately strings to enliven the organic, acoustic arrangements. Here, her verses, sung in Cape Verdean Creole, mingle with a bit of subtly employed Egyptian violin, while the 12-string viola (it's more like a guitar than the English-language viola) parts quiver in a way that meets the outside influence halfway-- Egyptian oud players often flutter through a song in a similar manner, though they work in a different tonal system. All together, it's slow and beautiful, unfolding languidly, inviting you into her world. 11/30/09 >> go there
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