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product_id: 42085212
title: "Post-Scriptum"
brand: "cristina branco"
price: "$19.38"
currency: USD
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reviews_count: 10
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region: United States of America
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# Post-Scriptum

**Brand:** cristina branco
**Price:** $19.38
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When Cristina Branco sings, she makes the pleasures of heartbreak and the aching beauty of desperation seem like something to long for. Her smooth alto has a timeless, haunted quality, marked by a vibrato that sounds like it's stifling a torrent of grief. Her emotive reading of fado classics has brought new life to the genre, a ballad form often called the Portuguese blues. Fado, like the blues, was born when African workers in Portugal adapted the guitar to their own music. The term probably comes from the Portuguese fadiado--"tired"--because this mournful, minor-key music was usually heard in the ghetto after sundown. When Europeans adopted fado they added elaborate lyrics to a style already full of unfulfilled passion. Branco's yearning vocals here are complemented by the melancholic work of guitarists Alexandre Silva and Custódio Castelo, who add unbearable tension to songs already dripping with overwrought emotion. --j. poet

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    serenity and passion
  

*by I***A on Reviewed in the United States on September 16, 2005*

It is unfortunate that such a gifted singer as Cristina Branco ends up compared to Amalia Rodrigues, or that her singing style is reduced to a category--fado. In fact, since the 80s, a number of new singers have appeared in Portugal who, while not repudiating the fado tradition, have done much to move it beyond the frozen state to which it had been reduced as Portugal's main official cultural export during the Salazar dictatorship. Unlike many fado singers, these younger artists are far better trained, sometimes abroad (listen to Carlos do Carmo, their predecessor, and in a sense spiritual father), and they have all incorporated a much more open sensibility. Listen to Camane, for instance, and you'll find the male equivalent of Cristina Branco: a voice so pure it hurts at times. The first song on this record is beautiful, but the last one is bound to make any Portuguese person cry. That tired cultural saw--saudade--is never mentioned, but the song is suffused with it, and absence lingers in one's mind and under one's skin long after the last note of the piano acompaniment has died out.

### ⭐⭐ 







  
  
    Consistent throughout
  

*by W***B on Reviewed in the United States on June 1, 2001*

On every track of this CD, Cristina demonstrates complete and precise chromatic control of every possible note throughout her range of almost a full octave.  Likewise, the production, style,  and presentation is consistent throughout this CD; listen to any track, and you've heard what the rest of the CD is like.  I admit I was seduced by a PBS puff piece about fado, featuring Cristina Branco, and I bought the CD expecting much more variety within the fado style, and also a broader range of performance from Ms Branco.  If you want one, I'll sell mine cheap.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 







  
  
    What an amazing singer
  

*by C***R on Reviewed in the United States on January 19, 2013*

Even though I'm a jazz-schooled musician I'd never heard of fado until six months ago.  Then on a trip to Lisbon last fall I stumbled into a music club in the Alfama district, Clube de Fado, where I heard an amazing fadista, Cuca Roseta.  I was instantly attracted to the purity, heart and melodic richness of this historical Portuguese acoustic folk music.  After returning to the states, I began a Spotify quest to learn all I could about Cuca, then Mariza, then Amalia Rodrigues, which eventually led me to Cristina Branco.I won't say that Cristina is best-of-breed in fado because they're all such amazing singers.  But Cristina's more liberal delivery, which can be jazz-tinged in one song to Sondheim cabaret-ish the next, touched me in familiar musical places.  That and Cristina's musicians are the best I've heard.I've turned a lot of people on to Cristina since.  Ai Vida on Post Scriptum in particular grabs female listeners, one of whom described it as the sexiest song she's ever heard.  I played some of Cristina's tracks for the owner of a Brooklyn wine bar and he said it was exactly the mood he was trying to set there.  My personal mission is to bring Cristina and fado in general to an American audience.  Maybe some day we'll have a Clube de Fado in NYC.

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