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Written in fRoots issue 358, April 2013


SEBASTIÃO ANTUNES & QUADRILHA
Com Um Abraço
Vachier Associados V&A201223 (2012)

A more interesting album than the MOR-folk-strum opener suggests.
     Blind singer, songwriter and guitarist Antunes is a colourful veteran of the Portuguese scene with an attractive light voice that sails effortlessly into high tenor. He’s joined by the fiddle, frets, bass and drums of the current members of his band Quadrilha and guests including Sara Vidal, newish singer with Galicia’s Luar Na Lubre, Cape Verdean Tito Paris and the gutsy vocals, bagpipes and drums of Mirandês quartet Galandum Galundaina. Mingling with catchy Portuguese popular-folk styles there’s a gamut of influences and inputs, such as Cajun/Québécois, Irish uilleann pipes, Scottish/Irish jigging and reeling, North African gnawa on the traditional Senhora Do Almortão which he leads on ngoni, and a jam with Touareg musicians and singers recorded outdoors in the Sahara. Nevertheless somehow the result is very Portuguese.
     The label has also released the remix of the number with Galandum Galundaina, Cantiga Da Burra, which also appears on the CD, as a transparent vinyl single in rather striking transparent packaging.

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