Ana Moura - Aconteceu [2 Disc]
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Album Details: Aconteceu [2 Disc]
- Release Date:
- 01/01/2004
- Label:
- World Village Usa
- UPC:
- 713746805326
Pro Reviews: Aconteceu [2 Disc]
| EXPERT RATING: From AMG Reviews Nearly two centuries old, Portuguese fado comes as close as any to being a national folk music. But it wasn't always that way. Fadoliterally, fateflourished during the first half of the 20th century, particularly in the hands of Amalia Rodrigues, who died a national heroine in 1999. In the postWWII era, fado's dominance began to wane, though, and it became increasingly frowned upon, considered a music of the lower classes, unfitting of a nation pushing its way into modernity. That's all changed in recent years, though, as a few young fadistas have revived the soulful style. Singersmostly womensuch as Mariza, Misia and Cristina Brancohave held onto fado's aching, keening melodies and sorrowful lyrics of loves lost and forgotten. Indeed, nearly every song on Ana Moura's divine, alluring second album finds the singer heartbreaking. In "Cumplicade" (Complicity), one of several tunes copenned by producer/guitarist Jorge Fernando, Moura laments, "When I call for you no one's listening/No one else has the power to hear me/You are the love within me dissolving in the water of my aging soul." In "Hoje Tudo Me Entristece" (Everything Makes Me Sad Today), she's at the end of her rope: "Today my sadness won't relent/Leaving deep marks in my unkempt face." In a fullbodied, commanding voice, with minimal, guitardominated support, Moura (singing in both Portuguese and Spanish) deftly displays the requisite overthetop emotionality of fado, sounding utterly natural doing so. There's a sense of foreboding here, yet an undeniable sweetness as well. Count on Ana Moura to be among those elevating fado back to its onceevacuated spot as something for Portugal to be proud of. - Jeff Tamarkin, All Music Guide |
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Fado vocalist Ana Moura was born in the historic city of Santarem, on the Tejo River north of Lisbon. As a girl Moura was steeped in fado and it's traditions, brought up in a family where the music was valued and loved, sung at home and at family gat...Full Ana Moura Biography
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