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Cristina Branco, Ulisses
Audio CD
Disk ID: 538955
Disk length: 1h 2m 45s (16 Tracks)
Original Release Date: 2005
Label: Unknown
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Tracks & Durations
| 1. Sonhei que estava em Portugal | 1:28 |
| 2. Alfonsina y el mar | 4:05 |
| 3. Sete pedaços de vento | 3:23 |
| 4. Redondo vocàbulo | 3:17 |
| 5. A case of you | 4:55 |
| 6. Navio triste | 4:03 |
| 7. Oh! Como se me alonga de ano em ano | 2:33 |
| 8. Choro | 3:38 |
| 9. Liberté | 5:49 |
| 10. Cristal | 3:51 |
| 11. Porque me olhas assim | 3:43 |
| 12. E por vezes | 3:04 |
| 13. Circe | 2:36 |
| 14. Gaivota | 3:47 |
| 15. Fundos | 6:01 |
| 16. Hidden song | 6:23 |
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Review
One of the great fado singers working today, Cristina Branco returns with Ulisses, a lush-sounding album that now more than ever separates her from fado convention. Rather than the typical guitar trio backing, Branco adds piano throughout to a guitar quartet that is, as always, led by Portuguese guitar player Custodio Castelo. Between Castelo's pyrotechnics and the piano adding a richer harmonic element, the elegant music sounds more appropriate for classical music recital halls than the fado clubs. Branco's voice smolders with nuance throughout, soaring but never overpowering the backing. A reference to the title, the material here sometimes comes from poems and tunes far beyond her homeland--Branco even offers English speakers a not-at-all-stiff version of Joni Mitchell's "A Case Of You." The electronic-oriented "Fundos" ends the album on an odd note but serves as an emphatic reminder that Cristina Branco is not content to sail exclusively in traditional Portuguese waters. -- Tad HendricksonThe latest album by the Portuguese singer, Cristina Branco, star of last year's Melbourne Festival. Ulisses well deserves its name: Ulisses evokes voyages, adventure, wandering, love, leaving, returning . 2005.Each of Cristina Branco's Albums Contains, in a More Or Less Conscious Way, the Germ of the One that Follows It: Sensus, the Last Disk by the Portuguese Singer, was the Exploration of the Erotic Vein that Touched on the Field of a Song in the Work Before It, Corpo Iluminado. Ulisses Well Deserves Its Name: Ulisses Evokes Voyages, Adventure, Wandering, Love, Leaving, Returning. The Myth of Ulisses Could have Been the Origin of the Portuguese Saudade, this Fatalistic Nostalgia, Marked by Waiting, So Linked with the Sea and the Uncertainties it Generates.
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Tracks: 15 (-1 tracks), Disk length: 53m 53s (-9m 8s)
Tracks: 15 (-1 tracks), Disk length: 53m 53s (-9m 8s)
Tracks: 15 (-1 tracks), Disk length: 53m 49s (-9m 4s)
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