Time: 48:19
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2010
Styles: Chanson, Contemporary Jazz, Fado, Folk
Art: Front
01. Retrato (3:24)
02. Cantigas Do Maio (4:45)
03. Lisboa Que Amanhece (6:02)
04. Gracias A La Vida (4:40)
05. Porto Sentido (6:02)
06. O Sol (5:23)
07. Foi Por Ela (4:17)
08. Avec Le Temps (4:58)
09. Quand On N'a Que L'amour (4:50)
10. Talvez Por Acaso (3:53)
Personnel:
Carlos Do Carmo: Vocals
Bernardo Sassetti: Piano
It's not an album of fado? It's not a jazz album? It's a fusion between the musical personalities of Carlos do Carmo and Bernardo Sassetti. A single line between the classic repertoire of Portuguese music and the timeless themes of the international repertoire.
This is an album with no secrets, at least as far as Carlos Do Carmo's voice (which comes up pure, without trapezoids, with no processing) is concerned. But it was a challenge because he was in danger of some monotony. And if this challenge is overcome with distinction and class, it is due to Bernardo Sassetti's superb and powerful performance: the pianist never puts himself above the voice, knows how to give him space and dynamic breathing and then at the moments when he assumes greater harmonic strength is brilliant, exemplary.
Then both musicians give themselves to the neighbor by welcoming him in return. Sassetti embraces a popular sense, while being exuberant and Carlos Do Carmo receives from the pianist a new adventure, which embraces as a young man, maintaining all its sophistication. It is a dialogue, which becomes touching, of mutual admiration this album, and also of admiration to the great authors of Portuguese music - these versions seem to me more passionate, those of Jacques Brel, "Quand On N'a Que L'Amour ", Léo Ferré," Avec Le Temps "and Violeta Parra," Gracias La Vida ", are emotionally more distant, but perhaps this is also a response of a lover of Portuguese music. A work that evokes a revival of Portuguese music in a erudite sense, maintaining the most important sensitivity of all: the proximity to the public. (From Portuguese)
Carlos Do Carmo: Vocals
Bernardo Sassetti: Piano
It's not an album of fado? It's not a jazz album? It's a fusion between the musical personalities of Carlos do Carmo and Bernardo Sassetti. A single line between the classic repertoire of Portuguese music and the timeless themes of the international repertoire.
This is an album with no secrets, at least as far as Carlos Do Carmo's voice (which comes up pure, without trapezoids, with no processing) is concerned. But it was a challenge because he was in danger of some monotony. And if this challenge is overcome with distinction and class, it is due to Bernardo Sassetti's superb and powerful performance: the pianist never puts himself above the voice, knows how to give him space and dynamic breathing and then at the moments when he assumes greater harmonic strength is brilliant, exemplary.
Then both musicians give themselves to the neighbor by welcoming him in return. Sassetti embraces a popular sense, while being exuberant and Carlos Do Carmo receives from the pianist a new adventure, which embraces as a young man, maintaining all its sophistication. It is a dialogue, which becomes touching, of mutual admiration this album, and also of admiration to the great authors of Portuguese music - these versions seem to me more passionate, those of Jacques Brel, "Quand On N'a Que L'Amour ", Léo Ferré," Avec Le Temps "and Violeta Parra," Gracias La Vida ", are emotionally more distant, but perhaps this is also a response of a lover of Portuguese music. A work that evokes a revival of Portuguese music in a erudite sense, maintaining the most important sensitivity of all: the proximity to the public. (From Portuguese)
Carlos Do Carmo & Bernardo Sassetti
