Rua da Emenda

"Vurdering: Top of the world" - "Rua da Emenda sounds as if Zambujo is moving sideways, taking the time to enjoy the place all that work took him to. It sounds effortless and it maintains a loose pace, maintaining the African, Brazilian and South American flavours without making a big fuss. It's clear that he has proven himself and is claiming the right to lay back a little bit and sing like he would do among friends. He's telling us that this time it's just for fun. The fact that he's so good is all the justification he needs".

"António Zambujo emerged as a promising fado talent at age sixteen (...) and [later] took home the Amália Rodrigues Foundation's best male fado artist award. But Zambujo is hardly a fado traditionalist, blending in the cante alentejano male a cappella tradition of his home region, along with strains of jazz (think Chet Baker), French chanson, Latin, and the unrequited longing known by Brazilians as saudade (think João Gilberto). To wit, along with his own compositions, Zambujo reinterprets Jorge Drexler, Serge Gainsbourg, and the early samba strains of Noel Rosa. His remake of popular singer Miguel Aráujo's Pica Do Sete (...) conveys the picaresque, tragically hip sentiment that runs through the Zambujo œuvre".