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Altoona Mirrow, CD Reivew >>
SARA TORRES
'BALANCE'
TIMES SQUARE
On Portuguese pop singer Sara Tavares' third album, she lets one song hint - not too heavy-handedly - at reggae, another at Rickie Lee Jones. And her voice can caress phrases with the breathy ease of a Brazilian pop singer or take on a sharper African edge. But she never forces anything. Fusions that could easily turn out to be self-conscious and contrived turn out sounding supple and spontaneous instead.
Tavares not only produced "Balance" herself, she also picked and plucked many of the layered, syncopated acoustic guitar vamps that make the music dance. The songs glide by with the cosmopolitan poise of a woman who can find the world in her hometown.
Jon Pareles, New York Times News Service
06/30/06
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