{"id":16337,"date":"2022-03-09T16:07:48","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T14:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qrious.de\/?p=16337"},"modified":"2022-03-09T16:07:48","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T14:07:48","slug":"lucia-de-carvalho-pwanga-releasedate-18-03-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qrious.de\/en\/lucia-de-carvalho-pwanga-releasedate-18-03-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"[:de]L\u00c3\u00bacia de Carvalho &#8211; Pwanga (Releasedate: 18.03.2022)[:en]L\u00c3\u00bacia de Carvalho &#8211; Pwanga (Releasdate: 18.03.2022)[:]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[:de]<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-16338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.qrious.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/LuciaDeCarvalho_Pwanga_Covermotiv-web-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.qrious.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/LuciaDeCarvalho_Pwanga_Covermotiv-web-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.qrious.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/LuciaDeCarvalho_Pwanga_Covermotiv-web-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.qrious.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/LuciaDeCarvalho_Pwanga_Covermotiv-web-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.qrious.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/LuciaDeCarvalho_Pwanga_Covermotiv-web-190x190.jpg 190w, https:\/\/www.qrious.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/LuciaDeCarvalho_Pwanga_Covermotiv-web-645x645.jpg 645w, https:\/\/www.qrious.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/LuciaDeCarvalho_Pwanga_Covermotiv-web-345x345.jpg 345w, https:\/\/www.qrious.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/LuciaDeCarvalho_Pwanga_Covermotiv-web-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.qrious.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/LuciaDeCarvalho_Pwanga_Covermotiv-web-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.qrious.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/LuciaDeCarvalho_Pwanga_Covermotiv-web-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/www.qrious.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/LuciaDeCarvalho_Pwanga_Covermotiv-web.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">Somahaka <em>Feat San\u00cc\u0192aelle <\/em>. Desperta <em>Feat Chico Ce\u00cc\u0081sar <\/em>. Maria . Yallah <em>Feat Anna Tre\u00cc\u0081a <\/em>Humano . PRKTCRACIA . Dentro. Buoy ! . Harmony .Tristeza .Saeli Phowo. Hapiness<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><strong><u>The art of rooting the light. <\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><strong>L\u00c3\u00bacia de Carvalho<\/strong> is an alchemist, a seeker of sense, a kindler of essence. Her voice transmits vibrations that heal and transform; her drum transmits the voice of the ancestors, inviting us to reconnect with our deepest selves. Voice and rhythms unite in the service of beauty: the beauty that inhabits us and the beauty that surrounds us. For those ready to cast off and set sail, her hybrid universe will act as a beacon, inviting us to hold our course despite winds and tides. Everything is there. All we have to do is get on board and let ourselves go. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">The little girl born in Luanda certainly had no inkling of the improbable twists and turns her destiny would take, as she listened to her mother singing to alleviate the burden of long days spent raising her five daughters. The mother took her three youngest daughters with her when she left for Portugal and placed them in a reception centre, mostly for children of African where she quickly adapted to local life, even though she missed her mother who stayed in Portugal, even though she had no intention of forgetting her African roots.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">origin, while she went off to look for work. L\u00c3\u00bacia spent some wonderful years there, amongst all the games, the songs, the women who looked after her and her sisters. She was 12 years old when she was told that she would be going to live with a foster family in France, together with her two sisters. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s how she ended up in Meistratzheim, a little village in the Alsace<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">They resurfaced in an unexpected way: a Brazilian band happened to play in her village, and in their Brazilian rhythms, dances and songs, she found the same joy and force of life she had known in her native Angola. The radio station she had loved listening to as a child used to broadcast Brazilian pop tunes all day long. It was with that band, Som Brasil, that she took her first musical steps, progressing from backing vocalist to lead singer, moving from dancing to drumming and immersing herself for ten long years in a luxuriant bath of traditional Brazilian rhythms. But the joy of singing on stage never got the better of the thirst she felt for her own Angolan roots.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">In 2008, she decided to embark on a solo career and write her own songs. The release of her first EP, <em>Ao descubrir o mundo<\/em>, three years later, revealed an all-encompassing passion for rhythm, a love of Brazilian sounds, and a desire to give her heritage a chance to reach out and travel by clothing it in rock and reggae flavours. <em>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Quem Sou?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em> \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Who am I?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d That was the question she asked herself in one of her songs, a question that had long haunted her as she attempted to navigate between France, her Angolan roots and the promised land in Brazil. She met Edouard Heilbronn, a young bassist from Alsace, who had just spent three years roaming distant parts of the planet, finishing his journey in the city of all the saints and all the rhythms: Salvador de Bahia. What was bound happen, happened, and they began to share their life and their music, working together on their compositions, playing everywhere they could, gifting audiences with L\u00c3\u00bacia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s dazzling solar energy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">Then, with a demo for a new album in their pocket, they set off together on a long journey, both musical and initiatory, that took them to Brazil and Angola. There they encountered wonderful musicians who contributed to the album. But, above all, they visited L\u00c3\u00bacia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s mother, whom she had finally managed to track down. <em>Kuzola<\/em> (\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcLove\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 in the Kimbundu language of Angola), was the title of the album that was released in 2016, and of a moving documentary that retraced L\u00c3\u00bacia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s quest for her roots and offered some answers to her questions about her own identity: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153All those journeys to retrace my story enabled me to create a picture of who I was: the roots are Angola, the branch is Portugal, and the flower at the end of it is Brazil. And France is the ground in which that flower was given a chance to grow.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">If <em>Kuzola<\/em> was a quest for meaning, the quest this time is for the essence. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Neither Angolan, nor Brazilian, nor French, I realised I was more than all that\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s something deeper that defines me, an immutable essence that carries me and makes me feel intensely alive. Once all the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcyou\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re black, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re white, from Alsace, this and that\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 is put to one side, what remains? Well\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<em>this<\/em> remains!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d In this time of constant questioning and identity malaise, L\u00c3\u00bacia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s joyful and positive experience is worth contemplating. It has enabled her, always in partnership with Edouard Heilbronn, to strike out into new territory on this her third album, recorded and mixed by Jean Lamoot (Mano Negra, Noir D\u00c3\u00a9sir, Alain Bashung, Dominique A, Souad Massi) at Studio Ferber in Paris. Of course, Africa and Brazil are still there on <em>Pwanga<\/em>, forming the heart of L\u00c3\u00bacia as she lives and writes to the beat of the drum, finding words, melodies and rhythms on the same impulse; a raw diamond that her accomplice polishes, enriching the harmonies and sonic imagery and turning the songs on the album into travel films.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">Other outstanding participation in this luminous repertoire are the illustrious Brazilian singer Chico C\u00c3\u00a9sar, the powerful and warm voice of singer Anna Tr\u00c3\u00a9a, and two veterans of Angolan music: percussionist Galiano Neto and producer-guitarist Betinho Feijo, known for their long-standing work alongside the great Bonga Kwenda. While the virtuoso Z\u00c3\u00a9 Luis Nascimento (Mayra Andrade, Ayo, Cesaria Evora) knew how to enhance the essence of each title with his original and varied vocabulary between Brazilian, Eastern, and Western percussions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">The Universe of Song \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcDesperta\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 transports us to the east and its wisdom, flirting with the colours of Europe and central Asia in voices that get up close and personal with the mystical flights of qawwali music. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s all about an awakening of consciousness of oneself. \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcHappiness\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 douses us in a gospel-tinged chant, the intimate prayer of one who has found peace in her heart, far from the heartaches and ruptures of the world and all its external storms. A moment of interaction with <em>gnawa<\/em> musicians from Morocco inspires the colour of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcSaeli\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, a name cradled by the sand-laden winds of this ode to the beauty of birth, that of the firstborn. And in \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcPhowo\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, sung in Chokwe (a language commonly spoken in the Congo, Angola and Zambia), L\u00c3\u00bacia brings our attention back to the women who spend their days in the fields, near Huambo in the heart of Angola. One of L\u00c3\u00bacia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s friends worked with them, encouraging them to write poems in praise of themselves as a means of rebuilding their self-esteem. <em>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Through struggle, through tenderness, God has made me strong,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em> one of them goes. <em>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153There are those who hate us, or who see us as weak, but in me there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a strength that carries all humanity.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em> Magnified by L\u00c3\u00bacia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s voice, these poems proclaim the luminous power of those women. As they gather for the last photo, they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re asked: <em>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Pangwa ni Puy?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em> \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Light or Darkness?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><strong><em>Pangwa! <\/em><\/strong>(\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcLight\u00e2\u20ac\u2122) is the title of L\u00c3\u00bacia de Carvalho\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s new album. Just like those women, it allies gentleness to power, meaning to essence, the light to the deep roots of a tree born in Africa, whose branches embrace the world, whose flowers appear as songs. It took a while her to realise, but her own name proclaims her vocation and has done right from the very beginning. <em>L\u00c3\u00bacia<\/em>, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dclight\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, of <em>Carvalho<\/em>, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcthe oak\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 in Portuguese: the strength of the tree. A revelation that aptly sums up her poetic and human quest: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153to root the light.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;[:en]<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-16338\" src=\"https:\/\/www.qrious.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/LuciaDeCarvalho_Pwanga_Covermotiv-web-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.qrious.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/LuciaDeCarvalho_Pwanga_Covermotiv-web-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.qrious.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/LuciaDeCarvalho_Pwanga_Covermotiv-web-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.qrious.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/LuciaDeCarvalho_Pwanga_Covermotiv-web-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.qrious.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/LuciaDeCarvalho_Pwanga_Covermotiv-web-190x190.jpg 190w, https:\/\/www.qrious.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/LuciaDeCarvalho_Pwanga_Covermotiv-web-645x645.jpg 645w, https:\/\/www.qrious.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/LuciaDeCarvalho_Pwanga_Covermotiv-web-345x345.jpg 345w, https:\/\/www.qrious.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/LuciaDeCarvalho_Pwanga_Covermotiv-web-100x100.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.qrious.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/LuciaDeCarvalho_Pwanga_Covermotiv-web-600x600.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.qrious.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/LuciaDeCarvalho_Pwanga_Covermotiv-web-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/www.qrious.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/LuciaDeCarvalho_Pwanga_Covermotiv-web.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">Somahaka <em>Feat San\u00cc\u0192aelle <\/em>. Desperta <em>Feat Chico Ce\u00cc\u0081sar <\/em>. Maria . Yallah <em>Feat Anna Tre\u00cc\u0081a <\/em>Humano . PRKTCRACIA . Dentro. Buoy ! . Harmony .Tristeza .Saeli Phowo. Hapiness<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">\u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0 \u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><strong><u>The art of rooting the light. <\/u><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">L\u00c3\u00bacia de Carvalho is an alchemist, a seeker of sense, a kindler of essence. Her voice transmits vibrations that heal and transform; her drum transmits the voice of the ancestors, inviting us to reconnect with our deepest selves. Voice and rhythms unite in the service of beauty: the beauty that inhabits us and the beauty that surrounds us. For those ready to cast off and set sail, her hybrid universe will act as a beacon, inviting us to hold our course despite winds and tides. Everything is there. All we have to do is get on board and let ourselves go. <\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">The little girl born in Luanda certainly had no inkling of the improbable twists and turns her destiny would take, as she listened to her mother singing to alleviate the burden of long days spent raising her five daughters. The mother took her three youngest daughters with her when she left for Portugal and placed them in a reception centre, mostly for children of African where she quickly adapted to local life, even though she missed her mother who stayed in Portugal, even though she had no intention of forgetting her African roots.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">origin, while she went off to look for work. L\u00c3\u00bacia spent some wonderful years there, amongst all the games, the songs, the women who looked after her and her sisters. She was 12 years old when she was told that she would be going to live with a foster family in France, together with her two sisters. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s how she ended up in Meistratzheim, a little village in the Alsace<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">They resurfaced in an unexpected way: a Brazilian band happened to play in her village, and in their Brazilian rhythms, dances and songs, she found the same joy and force of life she had known in her native Angola. The radio station she had loved listening to as a child used to broadcast Brazilian pop tunes all day long. It was with that band, Som Brasil, that she took her first musical steps, progressing from backing vocalist to lead singer, moving from dancing to drumming and immersing herself for ten long years in a luxuriant bath of traditional Brazilian rhythms. But the joy of singing on stage never got the better of the thirst she felt for her own Angolan roots.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">In 2008, she decided to embark on a solo career and write her own songs. The release of her first EP, <em>Ao descubrir o mundo<\/em>, three years later, revealed an all-encompassing passion for rhythm, a love of Brazilian sounds, and a desire to give her heritage a chance to reach out and travel by clothing it in rock and reggae flavours. <em>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Quem Sou?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em> \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Who am I?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d That was the question she asked herself in one of her songs, a question that had long haunted her as she attempted to navigate between France, her Angolan roots and the promised land in Brazil. She met Edouard Heilbronn, a young bassist from Alsace, who had just spent three years roaming distant parts of the planet, finishing his journey in the city of all the saints and all the rhythms: Salvador de Bahia. What was bound happen, happened, and they began to share their life and their music, working together on their compositions, playing everywhere they could, gifting audiences with L\u00c3\u00bacia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s dazzling solar energy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">Then, with a demo for a new album in their pocket, they set off together on a long journey, both musical and initiatory, that took them to Brazil and Angola. There they encountered wonderful musicians who contributed to the album. But, above all, they visited L\u00c3\u00bacia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s mother, whom she had finally managed to track down. <em>Kuzola<\/em> (\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcLove\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 in the Kimbundu language of Angola), was the title of the album that was released in 2016, and of a moving documentary that retraced L\u00c3\u00bacia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s quest for her roots and offered some answers to her questions about her own identity: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153All those journeys to retrace my story enabled me to create a picture of who I was: the roots are Angola, the branch is Portugal, and the flower at the end of it is Brazil. And France is the ground in which that flower was given a chance to grow.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">If <em>Kuzola<\/em> was a quest for meaning, the quest this time is for the essence. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Neither Angolan, nor Brazilian, nor French, I realised I was more than all that\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s something deeper that defines me, an immutable essence that carries me and makes me feel intensely alive. Once all the \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcyou\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re black, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re white, from Alsace, this and that\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 is put to one side, what remains? Well\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<em>this<\/em> remains!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d In this time of constant questioning and identity malaise, L\u00c3\u00bacia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s joyful and positive experience is worth contemplating. It has enabled her, always in partnership with Edouard Heilbronn, to strike out into new territory on this her third album, recorded and mixed by Jean Lamoot (Mano Negra, Noir D\u00c3\u00a9sir, Alain Bashung, Dominique A, Souad Massi) at Studio Ferber in Paris. Of course, Africa and Brazil are still there on <em>Pwanga<\/em>, forming the heart of L\u00c3\u00bacia as she lives and writes to the beat of the drum, finding words, melodies and rhythms on the same impulse; a raw diamond that her accomplice polishes, enriching the harmonies and sonic imagery and turning the songs on the album into travel films.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">Other outstanding participation in this luminous repertoire are the illustrious Brazilian singer Chico C\u00c3\u00a9sar, the powerful and warm voice of singer Anna Tr\u00c3\u00a9a, and two veterans of Angolan music: percussionist Galiano Neto and producer-guitarist Betinho Feijo, known for their long-standing work alongside the great Bonga Kwenda. While the virtuoso Z\u00c3\u00a9 Luis Nascimento (Mayra Andrade, Ayo, Cesaria Evora) knew how to enhance the essence of each title with his original and varied vocabulary between Brazilian, Eastern, and Western percussions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\">The Universe of Song \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcDesperta\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 transports us to the east and its wisdom, flirting with the colours of Europe and central Asia in voices that get up close and personal with the mystical flights of qawwali music. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s all about an awakening of consciousness of oneself. \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcHappiness\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 douses us in a gospel-tinged chant, the intimate prayer of one who has found peace in her heart, far from the heartaches and ruptures of the world and all its external storms. A moment of interaction with <em>gnawa<\/em> musicians from Morocco inspires the colour of \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcSaeli\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, a name cradled by the sand-laden winds of this ode to the beauty of birth, that of the firstborn. And in \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcPhowo\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, sung in Chokwe (a language commonly spoken in the Congo, Angola and Zambia), L\u00c3\u00bacia brings our attention back to the women who spend their days in the fields, near Huambo in the heart of Angola. One of L\u00c3\u00bacia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s friends worked with them, encouraging them to write poems in praise of themselves as a means of rebuilding their self-esteem. <em>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Through struggle, through tenderness, God has made me strong,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em> one of them goes. <em>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153There are those who hate us, or who see us as weak, but in me there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a strength that carries all humanity.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em> Magnified by L\u00c3\u00bacia\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s voice, these poems proclaim the luminous power of those women. As they gather for the last photo, they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re asked: <em>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Pangwa ni Puy?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em> \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Light or Darkness?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;\"><em>Pangwa! <\/em>(\u00e2\u20ac\u02dcLight\u00e2\u20ac\u2122) is the title of L\u00c3\u00bacia de Carvalho\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s new album. Just like those women, it allies gentleness to power, meaning to essence, the light to the deep roots of a tree born in Africa, whose branches embrace the world, whose flowers appear as songs. It took a while her to realise, but her own name proclaims her vocation and has done right from the very beginning. <em>L\u00c3\u00bacia<\/em>, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dclight\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, of <em>Carvalho<\/em>, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcthe oak\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 in Portuguese: the strength of the tree. A revelation that aptly sums up her poetic and human quest: \u00e2\u20ac\u0153to root the light.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;[:]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[:de] &nbsp; Somahaka Feat San\u00cc\u0192aelle . Desperta Feat Chico Ce\u00cc\u0081sar . Maria . Yallah Feat Anna Tre\u00cc\u0081a Humano . PRKTCRACIA . Dentro. Buoy ! . Harmony .Tristeza .Saeli Phowo. 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