December's headline death probably is that of the great Cesária Évora , who emerged from the tiny West African island of Cape Verde, a former Portuguese colony. But as a soul fan, percussion maestro Ralph MacDonald is my headline departure of the month. He wrote some stone-cold classics and appeared on an impressive catalogue of soul and fusion albums, including those released in their heyday by Bill Withers, George Benson, Donny Hathaway, Ashford & Simpson, Brothers Johnson, Margie Joseph, Patti Austin, Grover Washington, Maynard Ferguson, The Crusaders, Michael Franks, Eric Gale, Bob James, Herbie Mann, [...]
Cesaria Evora : Sodade [ purchase ] The Cape Verde Islands are a chain of ten volcanic islands off the coast of Senegal. Much of the land is desert, there is a live volcano on one island, and the area has a particular kind of hurricane named after it. So it really isn't that surprising that the islands were uninhabited until the fifteenth century. At that time, Portugal established an outpost there to service their slave trade. The Cape Verde Islands remained a Portugese colony until independence came in 1975. Since [...]
REPOST from 2008 (with slight updating): - I remember when the Apollo 8 astronauts went into space, right before Christmas in 1968. That was a rough year - Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy were shot, Vietnam was a bloody stain on the other side of the world. Violence boiled over into the streets. As Christmas week opened, three men in a little metal capsule hurtled through space toward the moon. The astronauts of Apollo 8 were the first humans to reach the orbit of another planetary body. As they streaked across the dark side of the [...]
If it's December, then you know it's Mixmas time at You Ain't No Picasso! Each year I get a bunch of my favorite bands to contribute themed mixes and share their thoughts about each of the tracks. MP3: Daniel Martin Moore - The Trawlerman's Song (Vashti Bunyan cover) Kentucky's Daniel Martin Moore has been influential [...]
REPOST from 2008 (with slight updating): - I remember when the Apollo 8 astronauts went into space, right before Christmas in 1968. That was a rough year - Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy were shot, Vietnam was a bloody stain on the other side of the world. Violence boiled over into the streets. As Christmas week opened, three men in a little metal capsule hurtled through space toward the moon. The astronauts of Apollo 8 were the first humans to reach the orbit of another planetary body. As they streaked across the dark side of the [...]
por: cm O dia 17 de Dezembro de 2011 será, para sempre, lembrado pela despedida da vida da diva dos pés descalços , Cesária Évora . A primeira vez que entrei em contacto com a música de Cesária Évora foi em 1994, em Paris, mais concretamente no Louvre. De todos os pontos de escuta que existiam na loja de discos, um tinha o álbum de Cesária, de 1992 – Miss Perfumado . A carreira de Cesária Évora sempre esteve intimamente ligada a França. José Silva, cidadão francês, [...]
Filed under: News , R.I.P. Barbara Zanon, Getty Images Cesaria Evora , a Grammy-winning singer who brought the "morna" music of her native Cape Verde to the world, died today in her home country, the Associated Press reports. She was 70. Born on Aug. 27, 1941 in Mindelo -- a port city in an archipelagic nation located off the western coast of Africa -- Evora began singing as a teenager, after a [...]
Photo: Hotel Basico. Playa del Carmen. Belated summer / continental nostalgia. Andrew Sisters - Rum & Coca Cola Rum & Coca Cola (1944) Cesaria Evora - Sodade Miss Perfumado (Lusafrica, 1992) Os Mutantes - Bat Macumba Os Mutantes (1968) [...]
Cesaria Evora Cesaria Evora 's management company and record label Lusafrica announced this morning in Paris that the renowned singer from Cape Verde will be retiring effective today. Lusafrica's owner, José da Silva, who also produces and manages Cesaria Evora indicated that the Cape Verdian diva who turned 70 years old on August 27 had arrived in Paris " in a state of great weakness ." She will be unable to complete her French tour, including a tribute concert programmed on Saturday, October 15 at Fiesta des Suds in Marseilles. [...]
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On a damp, dank and despondent Wednesday in the periphery of London, the soulful croon of the "barefoot diva" Cesária Évora sounds altogether otherworldly, inconceivable that her Cape Verdean Creole originated just half the world away. A highly collaborative long player that despite its extensive length never slips into morna monotony, Cesária Évora & features anything and everything from the irrevocably French voix of Bernard Lavilliers to the weather-beaten falsetto of Salif Keita, with Évora's timeless vocals flowing resplendently throughout like glistening water snaking its way through El Dorado. Another staple of the record is the sublime guitar [...]
REPOST from 2008 (with slight updating): - I remember when the Apollo 8 astronauts went into space, right before Christmas in 1968. That was a rough year - Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy were shot, Vietnam was a bloody stain on the other side of the world. Violence boiled over into the streets. As Christmas week opened, three men in a little metal capsule hurtled through space toward the moon. The astronauts of Apollo 8 were the first humans to reach the orbit of another planetary body. As they streaked across the dark side of the moon [...]
Cesaria Evora - Angola (Carl Craig's Remix) [...]
Cape Town, South Africa. The sky is black but dotted with clouds and the road is slick with rain, but no matter, the city is gripped in the best of all fevers, World Cup fever. We don't live on the city proper so as we roll along on the highway, the city rises up in the immediate distance, and next to it, lit up with powerful lights, Table Mountain. Imposing, serene, beautiful, mesmerizing, all at once. The perfect companion for the Mother City. On the radio plays Club Sodade, that remix CD of Cesária Évora's [...]
Day 29 - I remember when the Apollo 8 astronauts went into space, right before Christmas in 1968. That was a rough year - Martin Luther King and Robert F. Kennedy were shot, Vietnam was a bloody stain on the other side of the world. Violence boiled over into the streets. As Christmas week opened, three men in a little metal capsule hurtled through space toward the moon. The astronauts of Apollo 8 were the first humans to reach the orbit of another planetary body. As they streaked across the dark side of the moon on Christmas Eve, they [...]
CD REVIEW Cesaria Evora: Nha Sentimento (Lusafrica) I doubt Cesaria Evora is capable of recording an album that doesn't drip with a sense of delicious melancholy. I don't understand a bit of the Cape Verde Portuguese in which she sings, but as Evora says, "Music is just the universal language. Even if you don't understand the language ... you listen because you like the rhythm of the song." Not only are the songs on this album are up [...]
This new album raises one obvious question: can she still do it? The legendary Cape Verdean singer famed for her pained morna ballads, with their stories of romantic disappointment and melancholy, is now 68, and this is her first recording since an illness last year. Her previous release, Radio Midelo, consisted of her earliest recordings from four and a half decades ago, and she is clearly keen
Filed under: Around the World It's a dream match: The creamy, husky voice of Cape Verdean singer Césaria Evora -- one of the essential world music artists of the last couple of decades - bathed in the orchestrations of Cairo composer Fathy Salama . His work with another international star, Senegal's Youssou N'Dour , transformed the 2004 album 'Egypt' into one of the most celebrated (and controversial, as documented in the 2008 film ' I Bring What I Love ') releases of recent years. This [...]
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