CLAUDIA AURORA
MULHER
DO NORTE
UK
TOUR 2016
Wednesday 05 October 2016
BRIGHTON
Komedia
Thursday 06 October 2016
LONDON
Union Chapel [with special guests]
Sunday 09 October 2016
BRISTOL
Colston Hall
Friday 14 October 2016
LEEDS
Howard Assembly Room
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Sometimes, you see a place most clearly
when it recedes from view...
Claudia Aurora's second album, Mulher Do Norte, translates
from Portuguese as Woman of the North. Written with a clarity that only
distance can allow, it is a homage to the city, the surrounds, the way of
living, that helped make her the woman she is. To all that she left behind.
It was 2003 when Claudia Aurora swapped
her beloved Porto for Bristol. Little did she know that what she began singing
in the kitchen as an antidote to homesickness would take her to some of the
biggest stages in the world.
She sung fado. Traditional Portuguese folk
songs once sung by her grandmother. In time, she wrote her own. Impassioned
songs of loss, love, longing. In short, songs of saudade, the emotion at the
very core of fado, perhaps best translated as 'the love that remains after
something is gone'. A lover. A comrade. A place.
"People don't understand what I'm
singing," says Claudia, "so I try to make them feel what I want them
to feel. Onstage, my heart is in my mouth, and I think maybe people will see it
beating."
If people didn't see Claudia's heart, they
certainly heard it. With her first album only a few months old, she was a
relative unknown before she played the BBC Radio 3 stage at WOMAD in 2012, yet
the reaction to her set ensured Silencio's sales were seventh highest of the
entire festival. Impressed, Radio 3 later broadcast Claudia performing live
from the Royal Festival Hall. Further broadcasts followed.
Claudia has since made London her base,
gone on to play shows in countries as far-flung as Poland and South Korea,
completed the UK's biggest tour ever undertaken by a fado singer, and been
awarded a residency at Green Note, Time Out's London Venue of the Year 2015.
When it came to recording the new album,
Claudia took her team of crack musicians back to the mother country, and the
tranquility of Alentejo. Guitars, double bass, cello, bouzouki, accordion, all
combining to create fado as it has never been heard before. Fado with arms open
wide, embracing those other grand old traditions of the Iberian Peninsula:
flamenco, tango, gypsy.
And above it all, Claudia's voice. Like
other voices, it is redolent of personal sadness. Yet it is evocative of so
much more. Just as surely as fado is handed down through the ages, then so are
the sentiments of which it speaks. Twelve songs evoking a collective folk
memory of all the love and loss that went before.
Twelve songs sung with a voice as poised
as it is fervent. The emotion Claudia communicates is not blue, necessarily,
but visceral. A melancholic ecstasy. A life forever lived, no matter where her
home, as a Mulher Do Norte.
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"All my London friends - if you see
only one music event this year - make it this one! Claudia is something else -
but don't just take my word for it - experience the beauty, power and emotion
of fado for yourself..." Simon Fry
"A heartfelt song... a talent
developed in exile..." Mary
Ann Kennedy, BBC Radio 3
"Every song is a winner, every
arrangement full of thought and energy, and Claudia's voice is majestic
throughout. This is modern Fado at its finest - if you have yet to discover
this remarkable music, Mulher do Norte would be as good a place as any to
start, and better than most!" Barry
Goodman, ShireFolk
"You may not see her beating heart
but you will certainly hear it." Simon
Rowland, R2 (Rock'n'Reel) Magazine
"Classy" Neil Spencer, The Guardian
"Tingling beauty" Simon Broughton, Evening Standard
"(Claudia) Aurora takes advantage of
a colourful instrumentation - with an almost chamber-like instrumentation - to
close in on a classical French chanson and blur her fado into something else,
nuanced by the great Edith Piaf." Gonçalo
Frota, Songlines
"Really rich and still crystal clear.
Love how honest and all woman she is. Entirely her own woman. Lovely
instrumentation and brilliant production!" Debbie
Golt, Resonance FM
"Fado
sensation" BBC Radio 3
"When her voice unfolds its full
force, bittersweet and blue, elemental and operatic by turn, she has the room's
ear tonight, and for life." Venue Magazine
"The musicianship was superb
throughout and came together for a climactic Gypsy (Cigana), whose rhythms
allowed Claudia to really show her vocal range, and inhabit the character with
a passion that needed no translation." Michael
Conaghan, Belfast Telegraph
"Claudia Aurora is an exponent of
Fado!" Belfast Music
"Wonderful music!" Lucy
Duran, BBC Radio 3
"Claudia's Fado style full of drama
and passion" Tony Benjamin, The Bristol Post
"Rising star of Portuguese fado" Songlines
Magazine
"A remarkable fado singer!" Peter
Culshaw, The Arts Desk
"Your new favourite fado
singer!" WOMAD
"The concert was breathtaking and
moved me greatly and I can't wait to share it with our listeners." Sam
Murray, Folk Off!, Liverpool Student Radio
"A beguiling voice! And her
instrumentalists are superb!" Michael Church, The Scotsman
"As she projected her voice across
the audience you could feel the power and soul in the performance; this gave me
goose bumps, and made me feel at ease and memorised by her beautiful
voice." Jonathan Frost, Norwich
Evening News
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CLAUDIA AURORA
MULHER
DO NORTE
UK
TOUR 2016
Wednesday 05 October 2016
BRIGHTON
Komedia
Thursday 06 October 2016
LONDON
Union Chapel [with special guests]
Sunday 09 October 2016
BRISTOL
Colston Hall
Friday 14 October 2016
LEEDS
Howard Assembly Room
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