Guitars, Whores and Sin: The World of the Fadista
di Manohla Dargis The New York Times
If you want a sense of the glorious emotional excesses that permeate fado, the soul music of Portugal, you need only listen to the legendary fadista Amália Rodrigues, who tremulously immortalized singing whores, weeping guitars, ashes and fire, pain and sin. “All this exists,” she sang. “All this is pain. All this is fado.”
Ms. Rodrigues, who died in 1999, was known as the Queen of Fado, but she has a number of majestic heirs, some of whom perform with tremendous force and feeling in “Fados,”Carlos Saura’s big-screen film about the musical genre. [...]
di Manohla Dargis, articolo completo (4129 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 6 marzo 2009
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