Moura

Leva-me aos Fados (in English: Take Me To The Fados) is the fourth album by Portuguese fado singer Ana Moura, the successor to the multi-award winning "Para Além da Saudade" (2007). Leva-me aos Fados features participations of José Mário Branco, Lisbon Bagpipes, Manuela de Freitas, Amélia Muge and Toze Brito. Like its predecessors, has the production of Jorge Fernando. Ana Moura made a few concerts in Europe after the album's release, to promote its sells. The album has been very well received by critcs and its also been a big commercial success.

Brazilian Paulo Moura displays a number of talents on this new release. He's a tasteful saxophonist (alto and soprano) and clarinetist, ascending gracefully over fluid jazz-pop rhythms dabbed with Brazilian accents

Para Além da Saudade is the third studio album bu Portuguese Fado singer Ana Moura. It was released in 2007 and published by World Village and Universal. Contains 15 tracks, with the opening theme, "Os Búzios," it became Ana Moura's most commercial single to date. The album met with favourable reviews. Rascunho gave the album a favourable review and said: "Leafing through the pages of the small book that accompanies this third record of original, never fail to jump out at you names like Faust, Amélia Muge, Patxi Andeon or Tim Reies - the latter surely the most unsuspecting strangers, but also not sounding that the oddness of names.

Even though instrumental choro has been jazz-influenced for decades, reedsman Moura really falls somewhere between choro and jazz-samba. The jazz elements are very strong, the local ingredients more varied and more Afro-Brazilian than usual, and he is fond of a big-band sound and a somewhat staid avant-gardism, both of which are foreign to the mainstream idiom. But the spirit and the underlying sound are choro rather than anything else, even if they do stretch the boundaries. And Moura is a fine player with a fine group.

Ana Moura is universally acknowledged as one of the finest fado singers of the present generation. Her plaintive, smoky vocals has garnereda loyal European following, including members of The Rolling Stones. Whether starkly declaiming or swirling into filigreed crescendos of emotion, Ana's burnished alto personifies fado's darkly sensual credo of wisdom born of pain, grace, and futility, and secual passion perpetually on simmer, despite repeated and increasingly bitter betrayals.

Between 2005 and 2009, Paulo Moura created and recorded music with the Carioca group Teatro do Som, founded in 1985 by the flutist Paulo Martins, his friend and disciple. Alento became the first posthumous title of Paulo Moura's phonographic work and presents four themes from the musician, composed in partnership with Alex Meirelles and Ricardo Feijão, both members of Teatro do Som (Sound Theater): "Abertura 3D", "Road Movie," "O Portador do Segredo," and "Dia de Festa." It is an experimentation around modified music, which,the conductor and clarinettist spent many years working on among friends and experts such as Leandro Verdeal.