Cristina Branco - Post-Scriptum
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Artist: Cristina BrancoEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2001-03-13
Music Label: L'empreinte Digitale
Soundtracks:
- Ai Vida
- Manto De Acucenas
- Post-Scriptum
- Toada Em Realejo
- Palavras Proibidas
- Abalara
- Nao Oicas A Minha Voz
- Sem Abrir Caminhos
- Preludio
- Aspiracao
- Primavera
- Lisboa De Paixoes
- Ausente
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Free Music Review: serenity and passion
Hit: 5 Stars
It is unfortunate that such a gifted singer as Cristina Branco ends up compared to Amalia Rodrigues, or that her singing style is reduced to a category--fado. In fact, since the 80s, a number of new singers have appeared in Portugal who, while not repudiating the fado tradition, have done much to move it beyond the frozen state to which it had been reduced as Portugal's main official cultural export during the Salazar dictatorship. Unlike many fado singers, these younger artists are far better trained, sometimes abroad (listen to Carlos do Carmo, their predecessor, and in a sense spiritual father), and they have all incorporated a much more open sensibility. Listen to Camane, for instance, and you'll find the male equivalent of Cristina Branco: a voice so pure it hurts at times. The first song on this record is beautiful, but the last one is bound to make any Portuguese person cry. That tired cultural saw--saudade--is never mentioned, but the song is suffused with it, and absence lingers in one's mind and under one's skin long after the last note of the piano acompaniment has died out.
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When Cristina Branco sings, she makes the pleasures of heartbreak and the aching beauty of desperation seem like something to long for. Her smooth alto has a timeless, haunted quality, marked by a vibrato that sounds like it's stifling a torrent of grief. Her emotive reading of fado classics has brought new life to the genre, a ballad form often called the Portuguese blues. Fado, like the blues, was born when African workers in Portugal adapted the guitar to their own music. The term probably comes from the Portuguese fadiado--"tired"--because this mournful, minor-key music was usually heard in the ghetto after sundown. When Europeans adopted fado they added elaborate lyrics to a style already full of unfulfilled passion. Branco's yearning vocals here are complemented by the melancholic work of guitarists Alexandre Silva and Cust?dio Castelo, who add unbearable tension to songs already dripping with overwrought emotion. --j. poetInternational Music CDs
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