Your Kisses Are Like Roses: Fado Recordings, 1914-1936 by Various Artists - Death Is Not The End [DEATH076] FLAC download included with physical items

Your Kisses Are Like Roses: Fado Recordings, 1914-1936

Various Artists

A 16 track flamenco/fado album (48m 44s) — released April 19th 2024 on Death Is Not The End

#world #flamenco-fado

The definition of the word 'fado' is technically 'fate', though the Portuguese meaning bound up with this term is more complex. The music itself can be fairly closely compared with that of Greek rebetika - also the American blues or the original working-class tango music of Argentina and Uruguay - and similarly takes it's common subject matter from the various cruel realities of the world. Though perhaps what distinguishes fado in character is it's often poised acceptance of the pains of life rather than protestation or resistance - as writer Paul Vernon says "It speaks with a quiet dignity born of the realisation that any mortal desire or plan is at risk of destruction by powers beyond individual control"

Death Is Not The End compile here a spine-tingling collection of fado recordings, taken from records issued in the mid 1910s through to the 1930s. The fado's Lisbon and Coimbra variants are presented here by some of the music's earliest recorded stars - spanning a time period leading up to the emergence of the fado's all-conquering star, Amália Rodrigues.

Maria do Carmo - Beijos São Como as Rosas (1929)

Jose Paradela D'Oliveira - Fado de se Velha (1927)

Edmundo de Bettencourt - Crucificado (1929)

Madalena De Melo - Cantares (1930)

Luiza Baharem - Fado Mondego (1931)

Alberto Xavier Pinto - Fado Do Paraizo (1929)

Maria Victória - Fado Maria Victória Nº 1 (1914)

Maria Silva - Fado Alice (1929)

Adelina Fernandes - Misérias (1928)

Estêvão Amarante - Fado do Cauteleiro (1929)

Alfredo Marceneiro - Olhos Fatais (1936)

Ermelinda Vitória - Fado da Minha Aldeia (1930)

Dr. Lucas Junot - Triste (Fado) (1929)

Maria Alice - Quando o Meu Filho Adormece (1929)

Laura Santos - A Magia do Fado (1929)

Joao Rocha Jor - Fado Rocha (Unknown)
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