Brand: Virgin

Format: import

Release Date: 23-04-2002

Details: Amazon.ca Espiritu Vivo--"Living Spirit"--is in many ways an apt title for Susana Baca's new album. It was recorded in downtown Manhattan in the week following September 11, and though a heavy sadness hangs over it--presumably caught from the mood of the studio audience--it's nonetheless a powerful affirmation of life. Susana Baca has long been the first lady of Afro-Peruvian music, but her unique artistry, which is on a level with that of Silvio Rodriguez and Mercedes Sosa, has now brought her deserved global fame. Her soft timbre is intimate, but here it communicates a wide range of emotions, from revolutionary fury to sisterly tenderness to surreal psychological dislocation. In strictly musical terms, this CD is clever: the ambient sound is often spacily electronic, but as the instrument in close-up is a guitar--sometimes handled with Elizabethan delicacy--and as the voice is as earthy as hers, the total effect is remarkably harmonious. --Michael Church

UPC: 724381194621

EAN: 0724381194621

Binding: audioCD

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood