Guarda-Me a Vida Na Mao: Keep My Life in Your Hand [Import]

Ana Moura | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 8, 2005)
• Original Release Date: 2005
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: World Village USA
• ASIN: B0007GP6ME
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #168,269 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Guarda-Me a Vida Na Mão (Keep My Life in Your Hand) [Fado Carriche]

2. Desculpa (Forgive Me) [Seria Quase Voz]

3. Nasci P'ra Ser Ignorante (I Was Born to Be Ignorant)

4. Sou Do Fado, Sou Fadista (I Belong to Fado, I'm a Fadista)

5. Vou Dar de Beber À Dor (I'll Offer Pain a Drink)

6. Preso Entre O Sono E O Sonho (Caught Between Sleep and Dreams)

7. Não Hesitava Um Segundo (I Wouldn't Hesitate for a Moment)

8. Porque Teimas Nesta Dor (Why Do You Insist on This Pain)

9. Meu Triste, Triste Amor (My Sad, Sad Love)

10. Endeixa (Elegy)

11. Quem Vai Ao Fado (Whoever Goes to Fado)

12. Flor de Lua (Moon Flower)

13. Guitarra (Guitar)

14. Às Vezes (Sometimes)

15. Lavara No Rio Lavava (I Went to the River to Wash)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Lovely modern Portuguese ballads, February 24, 2005

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DJ Joe Sixpack (...in Middle America) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Guarda-Me a Vida Na Mao: Keep My Life in Your Hand (Audio CD)

A beautiful, melodic set of modern Portuguese fados. Vocalist Moura takes a much softer approach to the music than the traditional, keening style popularized by Amalia Rodrigues and her generation of fadistas. She's no less passionate, however, and this is quite a lovely album... Recommended!

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars just listen to a few tracks!, October 1, 2005

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Robert Reid (Chicago, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Guarda-Me a Vida Na Mao: Keep My Life in Your Hand (Audio CD)

There's not a bad track here. And though Ana Moura is strictly classified as a fado musician, there's quite a range here, from the mournful ballads (e.g. tracks 4) to some upbeat and danceable tracks (e.g. track 5). The common thread is a singer with a remarkably controlled voice (compared to other singers, if not fadistas) and beautiful guitar melodies.

Not sure how to articulate this, but you can always identify sincerity in a voice, a real connection to the music- the lead guitar hitting the notes just hard enough, vocalist singing just loud enough, etc. I hear that here.

I've often heard it said that Portuguese is the most beautiful languages in the world, and I'd have to agree. And while I've always been hesitant to learn Portuguese because I was afraid that the lyrics wouldn't hold up, the liner notes include the English language translations to these traditional fados... you won't be disappointed.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Anna Moura, March 1, 2006

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T. Schreiber "studio mole" (Seattle) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Guarda-Me a Vida Na Mao: Keep My Life in Your Hand (Audio CD)

Portuguese Fado has an irresitble mingling of passion and loss. We are told that it has waned in popularity and its great artists have become relics. Just listen to this fine young woman trace a sampling of its styles, its flavors on this remarkable CD, and you'll hope for it to stay - as it sounds - forever.