Almost motionless on his throne of black, hair purple shining at the top and black dress beaded extended to the mouth of the stage, Elza Soares is alive, vivid in their almost eighty years. Elza Soares, the legend of samba, a legend of brazilian music, woman’s world, woman of the end of the world, landed in the Coliseu dos Recreios, November 26, and eclipsed everything around it. In the vicinity of room lisbon historical were carried out in various other stages many concerts of Vodafone Mexefest. As Friday, on the first day of the festival, as this Saturday, the concerts were in the tens. Good concerts, check-if, either before or after Elza.
The rock ‘n’ roll cloudy and dylanesco Kevin Morby, the soul and R&B of the Gallant voice impressive on the way to stardom, the detail of Mallu Magalhães, the surprise of receiving the Whitney in duo mode almost acoustic, the celebration of funk and hip hop of the track for track digable Planets, the rhythms broken by Branko, with Mayra Andrade, the output of your own concert, as a guest of surprise at the close of the festival. Everything good, everything worthy of distinct praise. But Elza Soares? Elza Soares gave a concert for the Story. Alive, vivid, lived.
Vodafone Mexefest is a festival, it’s a long walk
much has happened. We are already at the end of the encore when you go down the curtain for the last time and, while this happens, while the room applauds – for her, certainly, but also for us, privileged us to have found her and with her, Elza promises that he will return. Says and repeats that this is only the beginning, that the future will still reserve much more for her and her "brothers boys", that is, the group of musicians that accompanies it, led by drummer and composer Guilherme Kastrup. It was he who, in a report to the back of the Woman at The End of the World, his latest album and the one that performed at the Coliseum, told us a few months ago, "every time she sings it is as if you were singing for the first and for the last time". As witnessed the public that saw in the House of Music in Porto; as witnessed who accompanied her on Sounds in Transit, in Aveiro, as we have seen in the Coliseum in the last of his three concerts with Portugues e, Kastrup not lied.
The first time, the beginning and the end of it all, is that voice that imposes itself without any accompaniment, singing the beginning of the poem the Heart of the sea, of Oswald de Andrade, which starts the Woman at The End of the World. It’s that time ultimate, the end and the beginning of everything, the band in silence, his back to the audience and face to Elza almost at the end of the concert, in which she intones the verses of Me – "I Take my mother with me, because it gave me your own being". The first time and the last time, let’s say, is what they sang and how she sang, with the extraordinary band that accompanied her, along the about an hour and a half concert.
Heart pounding in samba, antennas tuned in the vast world, the young people of são paulo have created for the diva carioca music of a hybridity, a glorious and bewildering. Glorious because it calls to us, generous and popular, that we added to it. Disconcerting because it reflects a world convulsive where to live love and violence, noise and placidez, however, often hateful, and hugs fraternal. Putting, swing, samba and neurosis post-punk, electronic-corrosive and tropicalismo lush, the past and the future together until one becomes indistinguishable from the other. Already the feel to listen to the one who is, arguably, one of the albums of the year, but the concert makes it still more evident by the raw sensitivity of the interpretation of the band. And after, or better, before, Elza.
Elza Soares that puts a Colosseum full the sing the key phrase in this extraordinary song combat against domestic violence, Maria da Vila Matilde – "You will regret raising a hand p’ra me." Almost octogenária, tied to the armchair by the physical fragility, that, then, celebrates carnal love with fervor and naturalness – "Nails nailed/ in trance latejo/ clothes thrown on the floor", say the verses; "To fuck", says the chorus, two words stretched and distended until they become ballet phonetic in the throat of the singer.
António Zambujo gives concert surprise on the last day of Vodafone Mexefest
Elza Soares is one that denounces that "the black meat is the cheapest in the market," (song-the manifest withdrawal of the album from their last rebirth,
Elza Soares, a whole life behind you, and still seek, to risk, to want more. There is still so much to do, right? "Until the end, I’m going to sing/ let Me sing until the end", we hear it – and the concert was only beginning.
outside, in the streets open to the sky, the scenery had changed in relation to Friday. The hustle and bustle of the public in ambulation was the same, but the arrival of rain had made the public more homogeneous. The organization has released waterproof to whom it was caught off guard, and was to see the Rua das Portas de Santo Antão and the Avenida da Liberdade polvilharem people, covered in white plastic in the customary brisk pace.
Mexefest begins with a concert surprise free
Protected from the rain on the route, they saw Kevin Morby, the new fad of american rock, do justice to the condition. In the Rossio Station, packed space to hear the Dylan converted to the power pop of Dorothy or the beautiful Miles, miles, miles, that starts as a ballad spectral Roy Orbinson could have invented, and ends in a journey of self-road with Springsteen in place of hanging. The poignancy of singer-songwriter to the abandonment of jam rock ‘n’ roll is a small step that Morby and band show know give without any difficulty – it was a pleasure to see them doing it.
as we find before him, in the Coliseum, a singer, Gallant, doomed to stardom. The R&B is your language and voice virtue and the energy of the performance are impressive. The author of Ology, edited album this year, has learned the lessons of the seductiveness of Marvin Gaye’s late, you have Prince on the tip of the tongue and Drake or Miguel at gunpoint. It is a modern classic in the construction, thus able to moderate the fall in the occasional to the generic forms that enxameiam the industrial production of the R&B, contemporary.
throughout the night, it was confirmed also that the Whitney are the new favorite band of a lot of people – Julien Ehrlich and Max Kakacek played in version duo of voice and guitar in Tivoli crowded, they explained that walk through Lisbon to prepare the new album, and the brightness, said those who watched, was not lost with the removal of the presentation.
meanwhile, Mayra Andrade acted in the Capitol, Fuse, the history of MC dos Dealema, was the scene of his serious voice, and beats thick of the night hip hop in the Garage EPAL, and track for track digable Planets made redundant the presence of chairs in the audience of the São Jorge: everything together, all united in the beat of the band the Rebirth of slick (Cool like dat), all to celebrate hip hop as matter is built of particles and jazz groove funk unassailable.
The Vodafone Mexefest good-bye-went with the Brother Makossa the rolling in the attic of the Tivoli and with a Coliseum filled with the rolling also with Branko in charge of operations, and Mayra Andrade, even in the end, as a special guest. After the frenzy of rhythm (afro-house-kuduro-techno, kwaito-funk, all of this and none of it exactly), decreased rotations, and said goodbye to each other with the breeze tempered Reservation for the two.
In 2016, the Vodafone Mexefest was the festival that we know of. Opened a historic area of the city, its habitat since always, music and spectators that came out to hear. During two days, 15 thousand (numbers advanced by the organization) have rediscovered and discovered bands and musicians, re-entered in spaces normally frequented and discovered some new ones, such as the re-opened Capitol or the attic of the Tivoli. But, in 2016, the Vodafone Mexefest leaves a mark in your memory more deeply than all the others. It was in this year that we saw Elza Soares present the Woman at The End of the World. Will sing with her. Up to the end. As if it were the first and last time.
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