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Duarte - Só a Cantar (2018)

Duarte - Só a Cantar (2018)

BAND/ARTIST: Duarte

  • Title: Só a Cantar
  • Year Of Release: 2018
  • Label: AVM | Duarte
  • Genre: Fado
  • Quality: FLAC (tracks)
  • Total Time: 31:58
  • Total Size: 171 MB
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Duarte is a fado purist, making no concession to other genres, just Portuguese and acoustic guitars, bass and his sensitive, expressive voice. Literally and figuratively, he takes pains to be authentic as he explores the nuances of loss and makes Só a Cantar (Singing Alone), his fourth album, more hopeful than some of his earlier work. He laments warmed-over fado for tourists: “We’ve lost the dark side,” he said in an interview with Public Radio International—referring to fado’s nineteenth-century origins, when sailors, bohemians and prostitutes sang in alleys, taverns and brothels about who slept with whom and who stabbed whom. Duarte doesn’t have a sailor’s experience to draw on (in his day job he’s a psychologist), and he can only go so far back in time, but he more than compensates with first-hand melancholy, performing his own songs with classical precision, with poetry and style suspended—like Lisbon’s narrow lanes—between past and present. In Covers, he observes, “Those who try to live/What others have lived/End up getting lost…They are fado no longer” (video 1). He takes us on the carousel of life—the destiny at the heart of fado—in the bittersweet Vai de Roda (Go Round), advising us to hang on until the end (video 2). The lightness of Doméstica Solidão (Home Alone), flows from somber lyrics paired with a sprightly arrangement, suggesting sadness as transition (video 3). Less is more in the artist’s terse and rich scenes and monologues: The silent observation of Rapariga da Estação (Girl in the Station, video 4); the retort to demeaning gossip in Dizem (They Say); and the love-from-afar story Maria da Rocha, the album’s only traditional track, from Duarte’s native Alentejo region. Everything works superbly on Só a Cantar, and it’s because of how adroitly the fado master takes pains. (AVM Music Editions)

Só a Cantar/Singing Alone
Duarte: vocals
Paulo Parreira, Pedro Amendoeira: Portuguese guitars
Rogério Ferreira: guitar
Daniel Pinto: acoustic bass

Tracklist:
01. Duarte - Vai de Roda (3:16)
02. Duarte - Dizem (3:18)
03. Duarte - Rapariga da Estação (3:43)
04. Duarte - Doméstica Solidão (2:42)
05. Duarte - Rimbaud (2:28)
06. Duarte - Covers (2:38)
07. Duarte - Às Tantas (4:09)
08. Duarte - Sobretudo Cinzento (2:33)
09. Duarte - Mordi a Tua Mão (2:14)
10. Duarte - Que Fado é Este Afinal? (2:23)
11. Duarte - Maria da Rocha (2:37)

Year 2018 | World | Folk | Latin | FLAC / APE

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