Elza Soares:

 The Woman at the End of the World review – Brazil's samba queen still rules 

Barbican London Jazz Festival

13 November 2016 / 19:30

The unmistakable queen of Brazilian music performs her new album The Woman at the End of the World, with special guests to be announced.

Ushering in a new wave of Brazilian music while honouring its history, Elza Soares has been a defining presence in Brazilian music since the 50s. Her husky voice took her from the favela to the clubs to the recording studio with a run of seminal albums in the 60s and 70s which made her one of Brazil's most celebrated singers. Despite a life of as many tragedies as triumphs, Soares has used her platform to give a voice to people on the margins of society, becoming a voice for Brazil’s oppressed women and Black, gay and working class communities.

On her latest album Soares has teamed up with the cream of São Paulo's avant-garde musicians (including Kiko Dinucci, Marcel Cabral and Rodrigo Campos from Meta Meta/Passo Torto), singing, screaming and spitting tales of a life in Brazil that is anything but a tropical paradise. The Woman at the End of the World walks a tightrope between Post-Rock and Post-Samba, a contemporary classic set of apocalyptic, 'dirty' Samba songs, breaking new musical ground and confronting the reality of 21st century Brazil.

Opening the concert Mercury Prize nominee Eska puts her soulful Jazz vocals over percussive electronics and world sounds.

'Elza is the Queen of Brazil' - Gilles Peterson

‘A daring, experimental album . . . magnificent’ The Sunday Times

Le Guess Who? Festival 2016 - Elza Soares

ZATERDAG 12 NOVEMBER 2016

Dit concert is onderdeel van het Le Guess Who? festival. Hiervoor zijn ook passe-partouts beschikbaar.

Na liefst acht decennia vol triomfen en tragedies wordt Braziliaanse protestzangeres Elza Soares beschouwd als Grande Dame van de samba en een krachtige stem tegen onderdrukking en onrecht omtrent geslacht, huidskleur, seksuele geaardheid en klasse. Op zaterdag 12 november geeft de legendarische zangeres een zeldzaam optreden op Le Guess Who? Festival in Utrecht.

Voor haar 34e album The Woman at the end of the world werkte Soares samen met muzikanten uit São Paulo’s samba sujo (‘dirty samba’) scene. Hierop zijn zowel invloeden uit avant-garde, rock, noise, jazz, soul en funk als samba te horen. Daaroverheen zingt en schreeuwt Soares haar verhalen over een leven in Brazilië dat allesbehalve paradijselijk en exotisch is. 

Elza Soares Berlin

DJ Lewis Robinson special ‘dirty' samba DJ set

Datum: Donnerstag, 10. November 2016
Ort: Huxleys Neue Welt, Berlin (  Hasenheide 108-114 · 10967 Berlin)
Einlass: 19:00
Beginn: 20:00

  

Septuagenarian Brazilian music icon Elza Soares teams up with the cream of São Paulo’s avant-garde musicians for an album of apocalyptic, experimental samba sujo (‘dirty samba’) that tackles the burning issues of 21st century Brazil: racism, domestic violence, sex and drug addiction.

The Woman at the end of the world is Elza’s 34th studio album and her first to feature previously unrecorded material, exclusively composed for her. Voted ‘Best Album of 2015’ by Rolling Stone Brazil it will now be released worldwide by UK based label Mais Um Discos on June 10

Over a sprawl of distorted guitars, squalling horns, taught strings and electronic shards, samba is savaged by rock ‘n’ roll, free-jazz, noise and other experimental music forms as Elza sings, spits and screams tales of a life in Brazil that is anything but a tropical paradise. A true legend of Brazilian music Elza has an incredible musical oeuvre that stretches back over seven decades mixing samba with jazz, soul, funk, hip hop and electronica, whilst her life-story is a rags-to-riches-to-rags rollercoaster of triumphs and tragedies that has made her a voice for Brazil’s repressed female, black, gay and working class populations.

Elza Soares em Porto Alegre

3 Novembro 2016

Salão de Atos da UFRGS   

Uma das maiores personalidades da história da música popular brasileira, Elza Soares, voltou à cena em grande estilo com o show “A Mulher do Fim do Mundo”, que passou por diversos estados brasileiros em 2016 – passou por Porto Alegre e Pelotas em abril – e ainda este ano vai ser visto pela Europa. O espetáculo e o disco homônimo foram aclamados pelo público e causaram enorme impacto na crítica brasileira. Depois de uma temporada em casas lotadas por diversas capitais do Brasil, a turnê chega novamente à Porto Alegre em novembro, encerrando o projeto Unimúsica 2016, da Difusão Cultural da UFRGS

 ELZA SOARES | CONCERTO

Data: 03 de novembro – quinta-feira
Horário: 20h
Local: Salão de Atos da UFRGS (Paulo Gama, 110)

Realização: Difusão Cultural UFRGS