Author: Baca, Susana

Brand: Baca, Susana

Features:

• Eco of Sombras (Echo of Shadows)

Format: Import

Release Date: 2000-02-29

Details: Product description In her Spanish-language songs about love, heritage, and slavery days, Susana Baca elevates the nearly extinct Afro-Peruvian blues--its sambas, landos, and alcatraz rhythms--to high art. Like Bahia diva Virginia Rodrigues or Cape Verde morna singer Cesaria Evora, Baca is part of a new generation of international female vocalists who take an almost chamber-music approach to their respective styles. On this album, that means augmenting her usual band with such musical guests as keyboardist John Medeski (of Medeski Martin & Wood) and electric guitarist Marc Ribot (Los Cubanos Postizos), who add almost imperceptible instrumental shimmers to her band's understated yet undeniably robust ( and often Cuban-flavored) grooves. Like the blues, Baca's resonant lamentations, sung in a voice reminiscent of ancient bamboo, transcend sadness with deeper and subtler emotional flavors. --Richard Gehr Amazon.ca Signed to David Byrne's world-music label, Peruvian singer Susana Baca mines her Afro-Peruvian heritage to create sparse, jazz-tinged soulful pop, and there's hardly a trace of the panpipes that have become an unfortunate cultural cliché of her country. Eco De Sombras, the follow-up to her self-titled 1995 debut, features Baca's subtle adaptations of poems and traditional songs. She sings with steady, sensual focus, her sweet voice accompanied by stark percussion or cool acoustic guitar. There is a hint of Cape Verde singer Cesaria Evora in Baca's rich yet restrained mix, and a versatility of mood, moving from the reflective opener "De Los Amores" (About Love) to the edgy "El Mayoral" (Slave Driver), to the joyful rhythmic Christmas song "Panalivio/Zancudito". -- Lucy 'Brien

UPC: 724384891220

EAN: 0724384891220

Languages: Spanish

Binding: Audio CD

Item Condition: New