Customer Reviews

Mammas

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Exotic rhythms, beautiful blending of earthy women's voices, passionate and lyrical. Makes you want to plug a ruby in your navel and dance.

I love the music, the voices and the raw power of grown women on disply.
Rich colors, textures, emotions, language.

No waifs here.

Makes me feel proud to be a strong woman.

Glorious voices; awesome, hair-raising harmonies -- my favorite album of all time.

Mammas are great! I have hundreds of CDs, and I pull this one out and listen to it frequently--great for the highway, too. It's hard to believe this CD has been so overlooked and allowed to go out of print. The music is an exhilarating blend of Eastern and European flavors and the passions of four women from divers regions.

One may find fault with the music for one reason or another, but the voices alone warrant five stars and a serious listen, especially (for me) the rich, vibrant, and powerful voice of Italian singer Lucilla Galeazz. Her voice you can can also be heard on the more traditional "La Tarantella: Antidotum Tarantulae." She also appears on another Phillipe Eidel production, the excellent "Renaissance: Les sonnets de Michel-ange" (Naive), evidently not available on Amazon US (though it is available at Amazon Canada).

If you can get a copy of "Mammas," don't miss this beautiful CD!

This album by 'Mammas' is one of the best I have ever listened to: beautiful harmonies, great voices, simply magical! Highly reccommended to all music lovers.

My only regret with this albumn is that I can't sing along. The melodies and vocal harmonies leave me wishing to learn a new language, just to join in.

This is an album of four amazing women beautifully collaborating and soloing--I wold love to find solo albums of each of them! blows our american divas out of the water. If you like Celine Dion, Susanna Baca, Cesoria Evora,Aretha or Whitney get this.

You may want to buy this if you are interested in the development of modern folkloric music, and it may be enjoyable to listen to if you don't know the languages being sung. However, if you know Spanish, Portuguese, or Italian, I wouldn't recommend it. I find it disconcerting that the lyrics are not set to the music according to the natural rhythm of the words. It seemed an interesting but ultimately failed experiment at cross-cultural pollination; a mish-mash rather than a harmony. For me, this album certainly didn't live up to the rave reviews of previous reviewers.