(Cape Verde, Batuku, Morna, World) [WEB] Lura (ft Elida Almeida, Nana Vasconcelos, Richard Bona) - Herança - 2015, FLAC (tracks), lossless

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Лура (порт. Lúra; родилась в 1975 году в Лиссабоне) — португальская певица, настоящее имя Мария де Лурдеш Пина Ассунсан (порт. Maria de Lurdes Pina Assunção). Родители Луры родом из Кабо-Верде, отец выходец из Сантьягу, а мать из Сан-Николау. Лура была балериной, когда певчая звезда африканской музыки в Лиссабоне, Juka, попросил, чтобы она появилась на его новом альбоме. Ей было семнадцать. Она должна была петь бэк-вокал, но Juka настоял на дуэте с ним. Это было блестящее начало и вскоре другие африканские португалоязычные знаменитости предложили Луре работать с ними. Среди них был Бонга из Анголы и её соотечественники Тито Пэриш, Пауло Флурэш и Паулиньу Виейра.
Свой первый альбом Лура записала в 1996 году с португальскими производителями. Он был выпущен в коммерческих целях и нацелен был на дискотеки. Но, несмотря на это, композиция Nha Vida (Моя Жизнь) вызвала более широкий интерес и была показана на фестивале Red Hot + Lisbon, посвященному кампании против СПИДа. В то время Луре был 21 год. После дуэта с Бонга молодую певицу заметила Luzafrica и продюсировала выход её второго альбома в 2002 году. В 2004 Лура записывает настоящее посвящение Кабо-Верде — Di Korpu Ku Alma (Души и тела), а в 2005 Di Korpu Ku Alma переиздается с четырьмя ранее не выпущенными песнями (и DVD).
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B0

Lura was quietly studying sports education (her speciality was swimming) in Lisbon, when Juka, a successful singer originally from São Tome and Principe, asked her to appear on his new album. “I was seventeen. I was supposed to be sing backing vocals, but in the end, Juka asked me to sing a duet with him. I’d never thought about singing, but he insisted,” remembers Lura. It was then that she realized she had a voice, with a deep, sensual tone. Juka’s zouk was a hit when a Portuguese producer helped her record her first album, a dance record for her generation. She was then 21. “The record was mainly meant for clubs,” she explains, but despite the album’s commercial flavour, one song, “Nha Vida” (My Life), drew a great deal of attention when it was included on the Red Hot + Lisbon album the following year, in 1997.
Lusafrica took an interest in the young singing prodigy when she sang a duet with Bonga, “Mulemba Xangola”, and in 2004, the label produced Di Korpu Ku Alma (Of Body and Soul), Lura’s real Cape Verdean record, whose reputation was boosted back home and among the diaspora by the success of “Na Ri Na”. In 2005, the album was released in more than 10 countries, including the USA, Italy (where it was one of the top-selling records of the summer) and the UK (where it was nominated at the “BBC World Music Awards”). About Di Korpu Ku Alma, Portuguese journalist José Eduardo Agualusa wrote, “as I have constantly told anyone who would listen, the future of Cape Verdean music already has a name, and that name is Lura”, while UK daily The Independent promised, “When her international career gets going, this girl will fill stadiums.” With this album Lura was nominated in France at the “Victoires de la Musique”, in 2006, for “Best World Music album”.
For her next album, M’bem di Fora (I’ve come from far away) in November 2006, Lura travelled the world, winning over audiences who proved ever more loyal and attentive to her music. Three years later, she launched Eclipse which confirmed the immense talent of Lura, jewel of the new Cape Verdean generation. Yet she modestly admits: “My career has been a continual surprise to me since I discovered my voice in my teenage years up until now. I take it one day at a time, but I’ll be a singer for the rest of my life. I’m positive about it. I don’t know why.”
In 2010, Lusafrica releases The Best of Lura, an album gathering her best recordings and “Moda Bô”, recorded with Cesaria Evora in the early weeks of 2010 which is a tribute song to the Barefoot Diva, written by Lura. The album also includes a DVD containing a concert shot by the Portuguese television, as well as bonus videos.
Like every other Cape-Verdean artist, Lura was distraught when Cesaria passed away in December 2011. A year later, she paid tribute to the Barefoot Diva’s memory with the song “Nós Diva”, released on YouTube. Taking a step back, the singer decided to return to her roots in Praia, Cape Verde, but still continued to perform, regularly appearing all over the world to the delight of her fans. Empowered by her contacts with the archipelago’s musicians and composers, Lura returned to the studio at the start of 2015 to make a new album, due for release at the end of the year. Vibrant, tremendously danceable and so very Cape-Verdean, Herança (Heritage) focuses on the archipelago’s energizing up-tempo funana beat with songs that include “Maria di Lida”, “Sabi di Más” and “Ness Tempo di Nha Bidjissa”.
Herança gives us a chance to reconnect with the intensity of Cape Verde and its people, traditions and music, all reflected in the art of the most melodious, charismatic singer of an entire generation of Cape-Verdean performers. Lura’s singing and each of the album’s tracks remind us just how the essence of multiculturalism and traditional Creole music have given rise to a universal vocal genre at the heart of Africa’s best-kept secret: Cape Verde.
http://www.lusafrica.com/4_1.cfm?p=5-lura-cap-verde-world-music-label-lusafrica

Lura - album “Herança”
“Over these spirited, powerful tempos, Lura continues to express the silent tears of ancient songs, the secrets of batuque and the rebel prayer she carries in her heart.”

Herança (Heritage) perfectly follows the natural progression of Lura’s discography after Di Korpu ku Alma (2004), M’Bem di Fora (2006) and Eclipse (2009), as well as her Best of (2010) parenthesis, where she notably duetted with Cesaria Evora on “Moda Bô”. Reflecting Lura’s constant return to her roots, the latest opus plunges us us into the vital essence of the singer’s identity. The album explores the most sublime, sacred facets of batuque and funaná as Lura brings her own special universality to those traditional Cape-Verdean beats.
Nothing has been left to chance on the record. Its chosen subjects and words are a perfect reflection of the history of popular music in the archipelago. The singer examines three classic themes of Cape-Verdean tradition. Embracing and expressing the heritage of an entire nation, she continues to develop and hone her art. For instance on “Somada” (written by Kaka Barbosa), an old favorite of Ildo Lobo and his group Os Tubaroes. Then Lura’s mellow timbre adds a whole new depth to “Sema Lopi”, whose heartbreakingly sweet melody tells the story of the people of Cape Verde. Next, written by Zezé di Nha Reinalda (from the band Finaçon), “Ambienti Más Seletu” retraces the history of funaná, originally the music of the colonial era’s poor, blacks and backyards, but which then became the genre symbolizing the culture of the island of Santiago. Lura unerringly chooses beats that perfectly showcase her vocal genius. On “Ness Tempo di Nha Bidjissa” (written by Tcheka) and the volcanic “Sabi di Más”, she embarks on a whirl of funaná, and then lifts the batuque of “Maria di Lida” – a tribute to Creole women laboring from dawn to dusk to protect the dignity of their family and children – to anthemic heights. Over these spirited, powerful tempos, Lura continues to express the silent tears of ancient songs, the secrets of batuque and the rebel prayer she carries in her heart.
The album Herança’s historical dimensions and rich, quasi-biographical Cape-Verdean cultural vein are intrinsically linked to the tracks “Gorée”, “Herança” (superbly produced by Naná Vasconcelos) and “Cidade Velha”, written by Mario Lúcio. These three subtly poetic songs describe the miraculous journey of the Cape-Verdean people, shaped in mid-Atlantic by a chemistry of different populations, cultures and traditions, and diverse dreams, variances, sufferings and hopes. Mario Lúcio – musician, composer, poet, musicologist and currently the Republic of Cape Verde’s Minister of Culture – also wrote “Mantenha Cudado” and “X da Questão”, which reflect the impulsive, mischievous, sensual nature of Cape Verdeans.
Herança is a gift to those who are familiar with Cape Verde and its universal soul, but also a celebration of Lura’s songwriting talents. On “Sabi di Más”, she celebrates the islands’ festive saudade, exploring the old Cape-Verdean dilemma of “wanting to stay but having to go” and “wanting to go but having to stay, while paying tribute to Achada Falcão, her father’s native land. The deliciously melancholic “Di Undi Kin Bem” is the lament of an exile still deeply attached to their roots. And one of the album’s most engaging songs is “Barco de Papel”, written by Lura and sublimed by Richard Bona. Like a bridge spanning cultures, “Barco” explores the link with mainland Africa that has always inspired Cape Verde’s rhythm and energy, the insightfulness of its music and the universality of its population. The symbiosis of voices and the symphony of emotions that rise from the melody make it the finest possible tribute that Lura could have paid to Africa and a world constantly striving for peace and harmony. Another type of heritage is Lura’s nod to a new generation: her cover of “Nhu Santiagu”, a magnificent song by 2015’s rising musical star in Cape Verde, Elida Almeida.
Herança’s power and universality are enhanced by the participation of four great names in world music today: Toy Vieira, Hernani Almeida, Naná Vasconcelos and Richard Bona handled the artistic production of its different themes. Toy Vieira provided a continuity with Lura’s previous work, while Hernani Almeida introduced the sound and vision that a new generation of Cape-Verdean musicians and producers has brought to the archipelago’s traditional music. On the “Herança” theme, Naná Vasconcelos successfully created a truly harmonious marriage between the mysticism of his creative world, Mario Lúcio’s writing and Lura’s powerful voice. Finally, Richard Bona produced “Barco de Papel”, a soulful duet whose essence could only have been distilled through the synergy of two great artists.
Herança gives us a chance to reconnect with the intensity of Cape Verde and its people, traditions and music, all reflected in the art of the most melodious, charismatic singer of an entire generation of Cape-Verdean performers.
New album Herança – CD Lusafrica 762352 – release 16 October 2015.
http://www.lusafrica.com/30_2.cfm?i=155-heranca-lura-cap-vert-cd-album-vpc-world-...-label-lusafrica