'O fado', so there is no doubt
From any branch of music that goes through his eclectic style, a cutting always emerges that is as delicious as it is implausible.
PalmSeeing and listening to Marco Mezquida is always a new experience. From any branch of music that passes through his eclectic style, a cutting always emerges, as delightful as it is implausible. Therefore, seeing him perform fados is like gathering the delicious fruits of a previously unknown tree. He arrives accompanied by Lisbon singer Lina Rodrigues, with whom they have given a small twist to the sad genre par excellence, starting with the piano, the instrument over which the songs are veiled. This circumstance alone is quite significant, and I'd like to think that, in some way, it also requires small changes in the way they sing. In any case, the concert they gave in Pollença, within the framework of Sondenitide 25, in the legendary Claustro de Sant Domingo, and with which they began the tour to present the album they have recorded and which will be released in September, was completely encouraging, and with the public, which almost filled the venue, right to say goodbye to the couple.
The fado, so there's no doubt about what's on it, is the title of the album, as well as the concert, and naturally one of the songs. A composition by both of them, although like almost all of them, because, after all, Mezquida's selection transforms everything in such a way that nothing is as it was. Everything acquires its own personality. So do the accompaniments, which could certainly be listened to without the lyrics and we would enjoy them with the same intensity, but in a different way. Highlighting this circumstance does not detract from the secondary role that Mezquida has indisputably given himself. He is completely at the service of the voice of a Lina who is also a composer and can set to music poems by Miquel Torga and Luis Vaz de Camões, the great Portuguese poets, as well as, together, they can make a suggestive version ofMy mother's rosary, by Mario Cavagnaro, who immortalized María Dolores Pradera and pay tribute to the great fado singer, Maria Teresa de Noronha, with The fado of defense. It was not missing Raindrop, from Lina… And so on for two hours of concert.