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Lyric video featuring Portuguese lyrics and English translations. Taken from Elza Soares 'The woman at the end of the world (A mulher do fim do mundo) album. Praise for the album:
Pitchfork 8.4/10
The Guardian 5/5 ★★★★★
Songlines 5/5 ★★★★★
The Arts Desk 5/5 ★★★★★
Mojo 4/5 ★★★★
Financial Times 4/5 ★★★★
‘One of the year’s most original and exhilarating listens’ Pitchfork (BEST NEW MUSIC)
‘A daring, experimental album . . . magnificent’ The Sunday Times
‘A devastating, late-career, vanguard-pop masterpiece’ The New York Times
'World album of the month' Mojo magazine
‘A monumentally great album’ The Arts Desk
‘Surely the Brazilian album of the year’ The Guardian
Over a sprawl of distorted guitars, squalling horns, taught strings and electronic shards, Elza sings, spits and screams tales of a life in Brazil that is anything but a tropical paradise.
On The woman at the end of the world Elza has teamed up with the cream of São Paulo's avant-garde musicians for an album of apocalyptic, experimental samba sujo (‘dirty samba’)where samba is savaged by rock ‘n’ roll, free-jazz, noise and other experimental music forms.
The Woman at the end of the world is Elza’s 34th studio album and her first to feature previously unrecorded material, exclusively composed for her. Voted ‘Best Album of 2015’ by Rolling Stone Brazil it was released worldwide by UK based label Mais Um Discos on May 20.
A true legend of Brazilian music Elza has an incredible musical oeuvre that stretches back over seven decades mixing samba with jazz, soul, funk, hip hop and electronica, whilst her life-story is a rags-to-riches-to-rags rollercoaster of triumphs and tragedies that has made her a voice for Brazil’s repressed female, black, gay and working class populations.
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Video produced by Fabrice Robinson
