Savages - Silence Yourself - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Savaging Spires - Savaging Spires [COMPACT DISCS] Digipack Packaging date 10/11/2011

Cesária Evora's Live à Paris is a celebrated live album released in 1996. Recorded during her live performance in Paris on 12 & 13 June 1993, this album captures the soulful and emotive voice of Cesária Evora, the renowned Cape Verdean singer often referred to as the InchBarefoot Diva.Inch The live recording highlights her mastery of morna, a traditional Cape Verdean music style often compared to blues or fado for it's melancholic tone and themes of longing and nostalgia. Evora's voice carries an intimate and heartfelt quality, drawing audiences into the stories embedded in the songs. The album features morna and coladeira styles, with lyrical themes often revolving around love, loss, and the struggles of Cape Verdean life. The recording captures the energy of the live performance, the audience's reactions, and the interplay between Evora and her band, creating a vivid and immersive experience.

The Kraken Consort was born in 2021 from the imagination of three musicians, friends and colleagues theorbist Bruno Helstroffer, soprano Chantal Santon Jeffery and tenor Robert Getchell, a Celtic music enthusiast. They share a taste for traditional oral and improvised music, and were keen to team up with instrumentalists with in-depth experience of traditional music Ronan Pellen (cistre), Brewen Favrau (piper), Sylvain Barou, David Lombardi and Laurene Durantel. For their debut album, Kraken Consort revisit the Irish and Scottish musical tradition.