I am up in Vienna again - this time for Christmas, or Xmas as I prefer to call it - and I didn't bring that much music with me. But, I did bring 'O Premiero Canto' by Ducle Pontes . Dulce is from Portugal and theoretically sings Fado, which is a form of music 'native' to Portugal. But, this isn't like any Fado you hear in a bar in Lisbon.
The album - and it's the only album of hers I have - is nothing short of a miracle. It contains amazing vocals and beautiful sounds, transforming the music into something haunting.
When walking through the streets of old Vienna it turns a simple trundle home into a scene from a movie. I can say this has only really happened on such a level to me once before. That was back listening to King Crimson's Larks Tongues in Aspic while walking through Canatara Woods. Suddenly the woods were not the woods, they were a copse in another world.
She is award winning - and not your usual Grammy-type awards. She wins awards (like for this album) for "best reflect[ing] Portuguese culture and history". She's had tracks on film scores and has worked with the Italian master of film music, Ennio Morricone. They have appeared together several times at classical music festivals in Italy, where she won another of these incredible awards as:
"ìcultural operatorî, for reviving the works of JosÈ Afonso and Am·lia Rodrigues, for her sensitive and genuine interpretation of the best musical and poetic portuguese traditions, and for her collaborations with celebrated international composers. At the award ceremony Dulce was introduced as "inventor of the new fado""
And she is 3 years younger than me.
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