* Mísia's new album Ruas takes the form of a diptych on two CDs
On the first CD, Lisboarium, Mísia dreams of Lisbon far away, her thoughts coloured by saudade after three years spent in Paris. Lisboarium is a subjective poetic inventory of the city, a choice of music and poems that reflects and narrates this urban world and delves into its secrets. The main genre is fado - although two other sounds from the city are also explored: the Marchas de Lisboa (neighbourhood parades held in June from 1932 on) and Mísia's personal take on a song by Portugal's Vitorino Salomé, Joana Rosa, a morna - one of those Cape-Verdean laments so similar to fado in their subject matter.
& Tourists, the second CD, reflects the journeys that have shaped Mísia's musical sensibilities over twenty years.
& Tourists brings together the work of artists from a wide range of musical backgrounds, even the most unexpected: hypersensitive individuals cut to the quick by the world around them, whose tragic relationship with life and music she shares - each in their own culture, each on their own path. They are her clan.
Whether she turns to Nine Inch Nails (Hurt), Joy Division (Love will tear us apart), flamenco singer Camaron de la Isla (Como el agua), Barbara (Attendez que ma joie revienne - Wait for my joy to return), Dalida (Pour ne pas vivre seul - To not live alone), Cuco Sanchez (Fallaste corazon) or Peppe Servillo of "Avion Travel" with a Neapolitan song, or fellow artists who feature in duets (Agnès Jaoui, ney player Kudsi Erguner or accordionist Daniel Mille) or simply provide her with songs from their repertoire, Mísia forges ahead on her chosen path, exploring these new landscapes shaped by the same feelings as fado and reminding us that although there are endless musical genres, ultimately, there is only one song: the song of the soul, universal song.
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On the first CD, Lisboarium, Mísia dreams of Lisbon far away, her thoughts coloured by saudade after three years spent in Paris. Lisboarium is a subjective poetic inventory of the city, a choice of music and poems that reflects and narrates this urban world and delves into its secrets. The main genre is fado - although two other sounds from the city are also explored: the Marchas de Lisboa (neighbourhood parades held in June from 1932 on) and Mísia's personal take on a song by Portugal's Vitorino Salomé, Joana Rosa, a morna - one of those Cape-Verdean laments so similar to fado in their subject matter.
