Argvs, the New Album from Luisa Amaro

This album is to be launched on digital platforms on 17th May

ARGVS, THE NEW ALBUM FROM LUISA AMARO

Luisa Amaro, interpreter and pioneering composer of the Portuguese guitar, has a new CD called ARGVS, to be launched on 17th May and presented in two concerts at the Museu do Oriente in Lisbon on 22nd and 23rd May, followed by a concert in Porto and a tour of various venues in Portugal. A disciple of guitar master, Carlos Paredes, whom she accompanied in hundreds of concerts all over the world, and the first woman to record as interpreter of this emblematic national instrument, Luisa Amaro is accompanied on this new album by Portuguese musician Gonçalo Lopes (on bass clarinet), Italian pianist Enrico Bindocci (on piano) and Cypriot singer Kyriacoula Constantinou. ARGVS brings us the sound of the Portuguese guitar in an international quartet. Kyriacoula Constantinou, who won the 2010 Anguissola-Scotti Chamber Music Prize in the folk music category (as a member of the Krama Ensemble), reinforces the cosmopolitan quality of this work as she sings in various languages (Italian, Greek and Cypriot). ARGVS uses words and music to illustrate episodes from the meandering journeys of Ulysses through the Mediterranean and its cultural ambiences. It is a musical adventure created around the mythical quest of the Odyssey, but is not limited to it. After her CD, Meditherranios (2009), Luisa Amaro is now returning to propose a musical journey through the great inner sea of Antiquity, which has always been and continues to be a place of cultural crossing, material exchange and the trafficking of dreams, where the movement of men merges with the vibration of myths: both a frontier and a point of contact for questioning about the past, it is also a call to the future of Europe. At this time of uncertainty and turmoil, nothing could be more contemporary than these Mediterranean themes which correspond so well with the identities of Southern Europe. This is Luisa Amaro’s fifth CD, and follows Canção para Carlos Paredes (Artemágica, 2004), Meditherranios (Altvs, 2009), Geração do Novo Cancioneiro, in which she accompanies poems recited by Maria de Jesus Barroso (Althum.com, 2010), and A Raiz da Pele, in which music by Luisa Amaro accompanies the recital of unpublished poems by Guilherme de Melo by Victor de Sousa (Ovação, 2011).

1 The album has the following tracks: 1 - Argvs 2 - Xácara 3 - Tirésias 4 - Cacilda 5 - Circe 6 - Desideri 7 - Odisseia 8 - Triantafylleni 9 - Cardaes 10 - Penélope