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Menina

by Cristina Branco

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1.
E Às Vezes Dou Por Mim 03:32
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2.
Alvorada 02:44
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3.
A Meio Do Caminho 02:52
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4.
Deus À 03:42
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5.
Não Há Ponte Sem Nós 03:24
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6.
Luto Mudo 02:22
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O Gesto Dela 03:16
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8.
Boatos 02:58
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9.
Quando Eu Canto 02:39
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Saber Aqui Estar 02:42
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11.
Ai, esta pena de mim 03:57
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12.
Quando Julgas Que Me Amas 03:47
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In January 2017, a new album by Cristina Branco will be released on o-tone music/edel kultur. The woman who so far is considered "one of the most successful fadistas of our time". Which we have to talk about the term "fadista" in this context: Well, there is a fado on the new CD. A very strong, intimate version of "Ai, Esta Pena De Mim" by Amália Rodrigues. But it remains the only one.

On "Menina" Branco ventures almost completely beyond the world cultural heritage of Fado for the first time in her career and we get such a profound insight into the artistic (music) scene of Portugal, so poignantly rendered, as a broad audience beyond the Iberian peninsula has probably never heard before.

A look at the composers and lyricists of Portugal's current music scene makes this clear: Here, (blood)young pop stars are lending a hand to established grand masters: with settings of poems by the world-famous writer Anónio Lobo Antunes or the spoken word art of the avant-garde rap star Kalaf Angelos', with music by Pedro da Silva Martins, Luís José Martins or Mário Laginha. Also, André Henriques of Linda Martini, Luís Severo and Ana Bacalhau of Deolinda have contributed to "Menina".

It combines the new with the old; Portugal's modernity with its tradition-rich history.
"Menina" is the "young girl" she tells about, a kind of travelogue of a Portuguese woman who was discovered as a fadista in a Dutch television programme, but as such has always gone her own way. This young girl has as a gift her unique voice, her creativity and expressiveness, which she uses to share the discoveries of her journey with us. Told from the heterogeneous perspective of a "menina"... dancing, singing, mourning, laughing, loving, dreaming, brooding.

Cristina Branco sees herself more deeply rooted in the Portuguese tradition than she could limit her musical work to fado alone.

Branco remains true to her tried and tested instrumentation with concert grand piano (Luís Figuereido), Portuguese guitar (Bernardo Couto) and double bass (Bernardo Moreira). And so what we hear on the new album remains folkloristic jazz. However, with an undeniable tendency towards the tradition of American songwriting and with a classical attitude. Not much different from what we have heard so far in their live concerts, except that the pathos of fado has been largely supplemented with their stories. But saudade, the untranslatable Portuguese melancholy, cannot be written out of Branco's work. It has more than just one face.

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released January 6, 2017

Line up live:

Cristina Branco – Stimme
Bernardo Moreira – Bass
Bernardo Couto – Portugiesische Gitarre
Luís Figueiredo – Klavier

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As far as the life and music of Cristina Branco are concerned, one could say that she lives and breathes fado, because she creates all the emotions that this musical style, with its intimate relationship between voice, poetry and music, has to offer. Cristina Branco began to find her own way, where respect for tradition goes hand in hand with a desire for innovation. ... more

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