The album Tecelã by Portuguese band A Cantadeira captured the first place on LIMúR, Lista Ibérica de Músicas de Raíz (Iberian Roots Music Charts) for Quarter 3, 2024.
A Cantadeira is led by a woman, who is also a mother, singer, gaiteira (bagpiper), and adufeira (hand percussionist). She seeks inspiration in the women of yesteryear and today. She celebrates our mothers, aunts, and grandmothers who, with their voices, cradled us, welcomed us, raised us and left us their strong and emotional feminine legacy. Notable, she performs solo in a show in which the vocals are the guiding thread.
Joana Negrão (A Cantadeira) said: “Tecelã is an album where I want to keep musical traditions alive, but also reinvent them, creating new traditions and new songs with the legacy of the old ones. In this work, I truly assume myself as a singer, immersing myself in my voice to find my own identity, but also that of the Portuguese singers of our collective memory. I wanted the ancestral tradition of the songs to blend perfectly with what I feel today and with the issues and dilemmas of my days as a woman, mother, and artist. My constant contact with people who still live the oldest musical traditions in their own context, from the Adufeiras of Monsanto, in Beira-Baixa, to the women in the center and north of Portugal, with their polyphonic singing, has given me an enormous cultural and emotional richness, which I always carry with me and which I hope comes through on this record and when I sing on stage.”
LIMúR Chart for Quarter 3, 2024
- A Cantadeira – Tecelã – Repasseado
- Vigüela – We – Mapamundi Música
- Ayom – Sa.Li.Va – Ayom / Believe
- Carla Pires – VaiVem – Ocarina
- Os do Fondo da Barra – BâNZô – Os do Fondo da Barra
- Adufe & Alguidar + Adufe & Máquina de Lavar – Quem canta um canto acrescenta um tempo – Adufe & Alguidar
- Balkan Paradise Orchestra – Nèctar – Calaverita Records
- Radizi – Cal y cemento – Liburia Records
- Brïme de Ürz – Brïme de Ürz – Lubicán Records
- Maré – Maré – Sons Vadios
- Lluís Gómez – Dotze temps – Segell Microscopi
- Carmen Souza – Port’Inglês – Galileo Music Communication
- Barcelona Gipsy balKan Orchestra – 7 – Satélite K
- Carmen Linares – 40 años de flamenco – Salobre
- Sandra Sangiao – SiS – Satélite K
More about LIMúR, limur.eu
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