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
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - LISTEN / WATCH - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ABOUT - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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.
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - PRESS - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
"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
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - MORE INFO - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - UK TOUR - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
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
Litoral
Centro – Comunicação e Imagem
faça
a sua subscrição gratuita
_________________________
INFORMAÇÃO
SEM FRONTEIRAS!
