Mariza - Mariza

Size: 125,4 MB
Time: 53:25
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2018-05-25
Styles: Fado, World
Art: Front

01. Trigueirinha (2:39)
02. Quem Me Dera (4:16)
03. Amor Perfeito (3:41)
04. Oraçao (3:13)
05. Sou (Rochedo) (3:30)
06. E Mentira (2:57)
07. Semente Viva (Feat. Jaques Morelenbaum) (3:40)
08. Por Tanto Te Amar (4:20)
09. Nosso Tempo (4:39)
10. Verde Limao (3:06)
11. Quebranto (4:14)
12. Oi Nha Mae (3:56)
13. Fado Errado (Feat. Maria Da Fe) (3:25)
14. Fado Refugio (3:04)
15. Trigueirinha (Feat. Carolina Deslandes, Jorge Palma, Mafalda Veiga, Marisa Liz, Ricardo Ribeiro & Tim) (2:37)

In less than twelve years, Mariza has risen from a well hidden local phenomenon, known only to a small circle of admirers in Lisbon, to one of the most widely acclaimed stars of the World Music circuit.

No Portuguese artist since Amália Rodrigues has experienced such a triumphant international career, accumulating success after success on the most prestigious world stages, raving reviews from the most demanding music critics worldwide and countless international awards and distinctions. As usual, her musical partners are simply only the best: Jacques Morelenbaum and John Mauceri, José Merced and Miguel Poveda, Gilberto Gil and Ivan Lins, Lenny Kravitz and Sting, Cesária Évora and Tito Paris, Carlos do Carmo and Rui Veloso. An her repertoire, while firmly rooted in classical and contemporary Fado, has grown to include occasional Cape Verdean mornas, Rhythm and Blues classics or any other themes she holds dear to her heart.

In the past twelve years, Mariza has long passed the stage of a mere exotic episode in the World Music scene, ready to be replaced by whatever new colourful phenomenon appears in another geographic corner of the recording industry’s market. She proved to be a major international artist, strongly original and immensely gifted, from whom much is yet to be expected in the future. The young girl from Mozambique, raised in the popular Lisbon neighbourhood of Mouraria, has mastered the roots of her musical culture and developed into an universal artist who is able to open herself to the world without ever losing her heartfelt sense of Portuguese identity. And Portuguese audiences are the first to acknowledge this triumph and pay her back with unlimited love and gratitude. ~Rui Vieira Nery

Mariza

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Mariza - Live In London

Size: 173,9 MB
Time: 75:57
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2004
Styles: Fado, World
Art: Front

Personnel:
Guitar (Portuguese) – Luis Guerreiro
Acoustic Guitar – António Neto
Bass (Acoustic) – Fernando Baptista De Sousa
Piano – Tiago Machado
Trumpet – Guy Barker

The new queen of the Portuguese folk music known as fado shines in the impressive Mariza Live in London, a 2003 concert recorded at the Union Chapel in London. The twenty something Lisbon resident has been hailed as the successor to fado legend Amália Rodrigues; now, after two well-received CDs, comes Mariza's first filmed concert performance, and it is stunning.

No wonder fado has been compared to the blues: the actual musical content is different, but in terms of both origin (both come from a variety of cultures, in this case including strains of Spanish, Brazilian, and African sounds) and lyrical bent (with its constant element of saudade, roughly translated as yearning or longing, fado, like blues, is mournful, soulful music), it's every bit as deep.

Mariza is backed primarily by acoustic guitar, acoustic bass guitar, and "Portuguese guitar," a 12-string instrument that looks something like a lute and sounds a bit like a Greek bouzouki; there is some piano as well, and Guy Barker's muted trumpet provides "O Deserto" with a pronounced jazzy feel. But the singer is the main attraction here, and the power and passion of Mariza's delivery on "Barco Negro" and nearly all the others in the 16-song set, including more upbeat, celebratory numbers like "Oica La o Senhor Vinho" (the introductions are in English, but the tunes are all in Portuguese) are undeniable. Add to that Mariza's black cloak and clothing, her stylish, peroxide-blonde perm, and her highly theatrical movements and expressions, along with the darkened chapel and superb lighting, and you've got an audio-visual experience so dramatic and moving that it easily renders the language barrier irrelevant. ~Sam Graham

Live In London

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Mariza - Mundo

Size: 113,5 MB
Time: 48:11
File: MP3 @ 320K/s
Released: 2015
Styles: Fado, World
Art: Front

01. Rio De Magoa (3:14)
02. Melhor De Mim (4:05)
03. Alma (3:10)
04. Saudade Solta (3:28)
05. Sem Ti (4:57)
06. Maldiçao (4:45)
07. Padoce De Ceu Azul (3:47)
08. Caprichosa (2:33)
09. Paixao (2:58)
10. Anda O Sol Na Minha Rua (2:24)
11. Adeus (2:52)
12. Missangas (3:36)
13. Sombra (3:49)
14. Meu Amor Pequenino (2:28)

Personnel:
José Manuel Neto - portuguese guitar
Pedro Jóia - acoustic guitar
Charlie Mendes - acoustic bass guitar
Alfonso Pérez - piano and keyboards
Israel Suárez 'Piraña' - drums and percussion
Joel Pina - acoustic bass guitar on “Maldição” and “Anda o Sol na Minha Rua”
Rui Veloso - piano on “Meu Amor Pequenino”
Javier Limón - guitarra flamenca em “Alma”
Carlos Leitão - viola em “Maldição” and “Anda o Sol na Minha Rua”

Produced by Grammy award winner Javier Limón, “Mundo” is her first new album in five years.

Once you have traveled all around the world, what's left to do, to discover?
14 years ago, a young singer released her debut album. Few would have ventured the journey she was then beginning would take her so far away from home for so long. Not even after that record, 2001's Fado em Mim, became a runaway success.

The journey encompassed all that followed. Four other albums (Fado Curvo, Transparente, Terra e Fado Tradicional), three live recordings (Live in London, Concerto em Lisboa e Terra em Concerto), atriumphant greatest hits album (Best Of), countless international tours and concerts in some of the most prestigious venues around the world, numerous global awards and decorations... And in so doing, Mariza's journey took her beyond her wildest dreams. You don't come home the same person you were when you left.

Or do you?

Mariza answers that question with the opening track on her new album: “Rio de Mágoa”, a classic Fado that sets in stone who Mariza is, where she came from. And once you know your roots, you can go on a journey –and it's that journey that is chronicled in this new album, her sixth studio recording and her first of entirely new material in five years.

The record is called “Mundo”. “World”. It's an appropriate title to describe all the world that fits inside it –a world that Mariza already had within herself, in her voice, but also the world whose doors opened to her as she traveled around it through the years.

Mariza is a Fado singer and she will never let go of, never forget, this music she heard from a young age. But Fado can be many things, as many as the singer wants it to be. And because Fado is always in Mariza's voice, it's always there even when it doesn't conform to its traditional image.

It's there in her voice, in the soul, in the passion she puts in every single track on this record, whether she is singing new material written by her producer, the Spaniard Javier Limón, or covering classics by the legendary Amália Rodrigues or the mythical Tango singer Carlos Gardel. Mariza's remarkable voice builds a bridge between many different kinds of music under the all-encompassing umbrella of Fado. Not yesterday's Fado, not a purist, traditionalist Fado; but a modern, contemporary Fado, open to the world, as befits a song that began as a sailor's lament.

Mariza's Fado is a different, adventurous Fado, that expands beyond the Portuguese borders in search of a new cosmopolitan identity. A new beginning, if you like, carried by a voice who always keeps her roots in her home country but knows that you need to learn and move on to soar higher, farther.

“Mundo” is a travelogue,a diary, a record of a journey, from Cape Verde to Spain, from Argentina to Portugal. All of it is present in Mariza's astonishing vocal and emotional range, a voice that shortens distances, folds time, makes the world smaller and brings it closer. Her voice, her songs, tell of “our” world, the world of music, of emotions, of Fado and all the styles swirling around it. But they also tell of her world–a world that has grown in the past five years, enriched by new landscapes, new places, new people, new influences. This is the world “Mundo” gives us.

It's Mariza's world. We're lucky to be living in it.

Mundo

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