Maria Monda - Maria Monda (2020)
BAND/ARTIST: Maria Monda
- Title: Maria Monda
- Year Of Release: 2020
- Label: Sons Vadios
- Genre: World, Folk
- Quality: 16-bit/44.1kHz FLAC / 24-bit/48kHz FLAC
- Total Time: 32:06
- Total Size: 164; 345 MB
- WebSite: Album Preview
Listening Post 283. Civilizations through the ages have paid homage to the Earth, but today planet reverence at best coexists with environmental abuse. And while the debut album by the Portuguese trio Maria Monda sounds like traditional wisdom and makes no mention of global warming, its very restraint makes a powerful, modern case for protecting Mother Nature. Sofia Adriana Portugal, Susana Quaresma and Tânia Cardoso met at Lisbon’s School of Theatre and Film (formerly the National Conservatory) and co-founded Monda Teatro-Música, an artist collective that extends the school’s collaborative and performing atmosphere into post-graduate life. Both the co-op and their group name are inspired by the verb mondar—to pare or weed, as in arranging ideal conditions for creation, be it biological or artistic. The women have diverse roots in classical music, Lusophone song, fado and theater; the album’s 10 tracks are polyphonic reinterpretations of works by seminal Portuguese and Brazilian poets and composers, including Fernando Pessoa, Zeca Afonso, Almada Negreiros, Chico Buarque, Tom Jobim, Vinicius de Moraes and Milton Nascimento. Album themes range from love and mystery to nostalgia and childhood, but the songs are suffused with the natural world—land and sky, sun and moon, mountain and river, bird and flower. O Cio da Terra (The Earth in Heat, video 1) conveys the taste of nature’s bounty, while Menino d’Oiro (Golden Boy, video 2) evokes the bounty of the womb. Group member Portugal animates Ser Gentia (Be Pagan, Apart, video 3) with wordplay that borders on mythology. A bittersweet anthem of letting go, Olha Maria (Look Maria, video 4) is from Buarque’s landmark 1971 album Construção, and Ó Sino da Minha Aldeia (O Bell of My Village, video 5) breathes saudade without using the term. With sharp glimpses and penetrating study, with timeless imagery and fresh sensitivity, Maria Monda paints a lush soundscape in Mother Nature’s true colors. (Sons Vadios)
Tracklist:
01 - Maria Monda - Rondel do Alentejo (3:12)
02 - Maria Monda - Ser Gentia (2:56)
03 - Maria Monda - Menino D'Oiro (2:41)
04 - Maria Monda - Ó Bento Airoso (1:54)
05 - Maria Monda - Que Amor Não Me Engana (5:37)
06 - Maria Monda - A Monte I (3:17)
07 - Maria Monda - Ó Sino da Minha Aldeia (4:35)
08 - Maria Monda - Olha Maria (3:27)
09 - Maria Monda - Cio da Terra (2:11)
10 - Maria Monda - Barqueirinho (2:16)
Tracklist:
01 - Maria Monda - Rondel do Alentejo (3:12)
02 - Maria Monda - Ser Gentia (2:56)
03 - Maria Monda - Menino D'Oiro (2:41)
04 - Maria Monda - Ó Bento Airoso (1:54)
05 - Maria Monda - Que Amor Não Me Engana (5:37)
06 - Maria Monda - A Monte I (3:17)
07 - Maria Monda - Ó Sino da Minha Aldeia (4:35)
08 - Maria Monda - Olha Maria (3:27)
09 - Maria Monda - Cio da Terra (2:11)
10 - Maria Monda - Barqueirinho (2:16)
Year 2020 | World | Folk | Latin | FLAC / APE | HD & Vinyl
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