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Reviews (3)
RootsWorld
2019
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Marty Lipp
2019
"With Maria, Carminho returns to fado wholeheartedly, even if she adds some unconventional elements to the soulful music ... Though her music is artfully arranged, the centerpiece is her voice, or really, her delivery. She is a singer who grabs each word and sings the hell out of it, embracing each note seemingly with her entire body. While some singers make you worry about hurting their throat, she wrings out notes that make you worry about her kidneys. It's singing that isn't just jaw-clenching, but provokes an involuntary sympathetic physical response of tensing one's entire body ... Her Nonesuch debut shows her to be a mature artist in search of a mature audience that embraces the heartfelt emotions that pop often skims over".
LondonJazz news
d. 3. Feb. 2019
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Peter Bacon
d. 3. Feb. 2019
"Like bluegrass, like classic rock 'n' roll, the art of fado is to set one's own stamp on its fairly rigid - and rigidly-policed by its most ardent fans - rules, to extend its possibilities while remaining true to its spirit and strictures. Carminho achieves that feat with great style. A beautifully realised, remarkably varied yet uniformly gorgeous album".
Songlines
2019 April
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Julian May
2019 April
"Top of the world" - "Within the first few seconds of Maria, Carminho makes one of the boldest moves in her career so far: she single-handedly creates a new fado, getting rid of all the traditional instruments, singing "A Tecedeira" a capella. It's a challenge she addresses herself: How far can she allow herself to go while taking fado into its rawer nature? Does voice on its own qualify as fado, without the usually mandatory Portuguese guitar? It would amount to little more than a curious exercise if it wasn't for such a rapturous rendering ... Maria, her fourth fado album (...), also finds Carminho venturing into the electric guitar accompaniment of "Estrela" and adds a tasteful pedal steel to splendid tracks like "O Menino e a Cidade". And then there's the Baden Powell-inspired guitar she sings along to in the stunning "Desengano". Yes, she's done it again".