Canto

M?sia - Canto

Canto
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Artist: M?sia
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2004-02-10
Music Label: Warner Bros / Wea
Soundtracks:
  1. Press?gios de Alfama
  2. Sem Saber
  3. Lamento das Rosas Bravas
  4. Tia Minha Gentil
  5. Ah N?o
  6. Can??o de Alcipe
  7. Nenhum Sonho Se Entrega ? Chegada - Misia, Godinho, S?rgio
  8. Horas de Breu
  9. Valsa das Sombras
  10. Verdes Anos - Misia, Tamen, Pedro
  11. Tim Tim Por Tim Tim
  12. Ah N?o II - Misia, Paredes, Carlos
  13. Balada de Coimbra - Misia, Eliseu, Jos?

Free Music Notes for Canto

Free Music Review: an altered state
Hit: 5 Stars

The haunting strains of this cd immediately transport me to another realm. I am American and don't speak any Portuguese much less write poetry, but in this album Misia served as my muse inspiring me to try and write a fado poem - or at least what I thought such poems might be like - in English. So I offer it here as both a review and a tribute to her artistry in this excellently conceived recording.

The siren of heartbreak sings songs to cajole
Drawing me further into the treacherous shoal
I search for the route that would lead towards my goal
All the time not knowing it rests in my soul

Are those thundering hooves I hear from behind?
Chasing me into a corner in which I can't hide
Everywhere I turn the truth surrounds my mind
Have I no choice but to live the fate of my kind?

Swallows circle the belfry exulting in joyous flight
The owl solemnly contemplates the middle of night
Only in the truth of my soul's invisible sight
Can I live the swallow's joy - and know the owls plight

Coda:
To embrace a wounded soul
Is the most beautiful love of all
Allowing what once could have been
To become possible again

Canto Poster

Miraculous & mysterious, stirring & poetic, attractive & luminous... such is Misia, an exceptional fado singer who, since her first album release under Detour label, Garras Dos Sentidos, then followed by her passage at the Olympia in October 1998 & January 1999 (14th & 15th of January), has imposed herself as an essential figure of the international musical scene. 'Canto' is an original & ambitious project, resulting from the meeting of different artistic languages, inspired by the Portuguese composer Carlos Paredes. 13 tracks. Warner. 2003.
Known for her deliberately artsy live performances and, of course, her exceptionally graceful take on Portugal's fado music tradition, M?sia is one of the leading lights of the music since the great Amalia Rodrigues passed away. She toys with tradition in a different way on Canto, taking on the music of challenging Portuguese composer Carlos Paredes. Since these are not folk songs, the singer augments (and sometimes supplants) fado's traditional acoustic guitar trio with a classical string quintet. The results are stunning: the music here sounds like wildly passionate versions of baroque classics, particularly on the opening song "Press?gios de Alfama." The singer maintains her fadista's soul throughout as she sings the dramatic lyrics of poet Vasco Gra?a Moura and others. As her voice soars, violins and the Portuguese guitar of Jos? Manuel Neto compliment with delicate refinement. One of the more unique sounding efforts to come out of the fado tradition, Canto is a work of rare and tender beauty. --Tad Hendrickson

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