Post by petrolino on Mar 14, 2021 1:42:55 GMT
Brazilian multi-instrumentalist Dom La Nena is releasing a new album, 'Tempo' (2021), on Six Degrees Records. She's been living in France for some time now, where she's worked with Jane Birkin and the late Jeanne Moreau among others. She plays numerous instruments well, but the cello is her chosen instrument; one of her music teachers was cellist Christine Walevska.
"It wasn’t until I had listened to ‘Tempo’ several times that I’d then read that Dom La Nena had moved from Brazil to Paris. The best way to describe her music is a chirpy blend of Brazilian folk realised through Parisian instrumentation. It is a unique sound but one that makes you smile.
‘Tempo’ is brief, with 13 tracks in 35 minutes but each piece manages to put a unique spin on chamber music. It might be the dreamy waltzes of ‘Doux de Rever’ where bouncy strings and Theremins twinkle. It may be the Camille-esque vocal montage of sounds that make up the delightfully fluffy ‘Quien Podra Saberlo’. Even the short plucked string and harp interlude of ‘Esperando Alma’ has tons of heart – literally. The percussive background sounds like a heartbeat in the womb."
‘Tempo’ is brief, with 13 tracks in 35 minutes but each piece manages to put a unique spin on chamber music. It might be the dreamy waltzes of ‘Doux de Rever’ where bouncy strings and Theremins twinkle. It may be the Camille-esque vocal montage of sounds that make up the delightfully fluffy ‘Quien Podra Saberlo’. Even the short plucked string and harp interlude of ‘Esperando Alma’ has tons of heart – literally. The percussive background sounds like a heartbeat in the womb."
- Simon Smith, Higher Plain Music
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'Tempo'
I don't know if she has any collaborators on 'Tempo'. Her collaborators in the past have included Julieta Venegas and Rosemary Standley. Reviews I've read of 'Tempo' have described it as the perfect album for the change of seasons from spring to summer.
"Now 31, Dom La Nena’s singing retains its youthful charm, alternately dreamy and lark-like. This third album takes on the weighty subject of time with winning lightheartedness (few of its songs exceed three minutes), skipping between styles: a jaunty waltz for Valsa, sighing chamber-samba for Samba Para Você. Todo Tiene Su Fin (All Things Must Pass) fears what time will do to her ravaged homeland, soaring against an almost doo-wop coda (“Before everyone is gone/ All I ask is love”). La Nena’s cello sings too, while she precisely orchestrates knocks, piano flourishes, bells and vocal parts. An enchantment."
- Neil Spencer, The Guardian
Dom La Nena
'Oiseau Sauvage'
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“I was very lucky to grow up in the two hemispheres because I got the structure and the “exigence” [rigours] of Europe and the pleasure of South America. In fact, it was very important to start my life in Brazil where you learn to be happy and to do things as you like to do them.”
- Dominique Pinto, Sounds And Colours
'Cello Song' ~ Nick Drake