| February 4, 2012 | 8:00 pm to 11:50 pm | ||
To say that Nancy Vieira is Cape Verdean could be one way to justify her innate musicality, but it would not leave everything said. From her way of living and interpreting things in life, with gentleness, subtlety, rhythm and strength, emerges a flow of emotions that reflects a “happy melancholy”, mirroring the Cape Verdean soul. Cape Verde is inspiration. It is cause and effect in its place. The world is the auditorium and part of a cultural miscellany that influences it. Based on traditional rhythms of Cape Verde, the singer supports her voice mostly through acoustic instruments, especially through the simplicity and good taste of the musical arrangements. Nancy Vieira presents herself in line with traditional Cape Verdean singers like Cesária Evora, who recently passed away – that similarity is apparent when she sings the morna. In Macau the artist will present her new album “No Amá”, where the melancholy and longing of the morna join the warm joy of the coladeira, which is a characteristic feature of the Cape Verdean people. The sweet and melodious voice of Nancy appears clear under the arrangements of producer Nando Andrade, in perfect symbiosis, as if in homage to the natural way of playing and typical of the serenades and tocatinas of other times. Rolando Semedo (guitar), Vaisse Days (guitar and cavaquinho), Costa Neto (bass) and Jair Pina (percussion) are members of the band that accompany one of the most promising new voices in the music of Cape Verde.
Andreia Dacal, singer and songwriter, was born in Niteroi and started releasing songs from her first album, “Caos Roots Controle”, online in 2005 on Myspace. The album was officially launched in 2007 and attracted attention right from the beginning, as well as new partnerships beyond Brazil’s borders. The design by Mr. Calavera Mexican drew invitations from groups and producers of dub and electronic music from Portugal, Italy and England. This intense artistic connection naturally promoted the work of the singer and songwriter who always produces her music together with talented people of avant-garde underground music. In March 2010 Dacal released her second album on the Internet “Afirmativa”, by the French net label Fresh`Poulp. The album is all about dub & urban music.
The musical project of David Santos, best known as noiserv, has established itself as one of the most creative and exciting of those arising in Portugal in the last decade. With a wide range of unusual instruments, noiserv creates a web of sound in real time that engages the audience and transports them into his world. Created in mid-2005, with the online edition of the EP “56010-92” on Internet label Merzbau, noiserv produced his first LP in 2008, “One Hundred Miles from thoughtlessness,” a well-received album and one that is currently in its fourth edition. In 2009, successful foreign stage appearances in Germany, Austria, England and Scotland culminated in the international edition of the single “Bullets on Parade” by Scottish producer Autumn Ferment Records. noiserv has shared the stage with names like Perry Blake, Camera Obscura, Bill Callahan, I Like Trains, Tara Jane O’Neil, Indies Halda, Your Ten Mofo, Julianna Barwick, The Swell and Damon & Naomi, among many others. In early July 2010 Santos released the EP entitled “A day in the day of the days”. In November of that year he completed his participation in the soundtrack of the documentary “José e Pilar” with 15 original songs. In April 2011 Santos returned to recording, compiling a double-disc of “One Hundred Miles from thoughtlessness,” the EP “A day in the days of the day” and even some extras. This year there is the promise of a new LP.
