Cristina Branco - Kronos

Year: 2009
Style: fado
Country: Portugal
Quality: VBR
Size: 60 MB (5% recovery information included)
Web: www.cristinabranco.com & www.myspace.com/cristinabrancofans

Tracklist:
01. Trago Um Fado 3:17
02. Eterno Retorno 2:59
03. Bomba Relógio 3:46
04. Longe Do Sul 3:37
05. Margarida (Duet With Jorge Palma) 2:34
06. O Meu Calendário 3:51
07. Bichinhos Distraídos 3:42
08. Tango 4:02
09. Eléctrico Amarelo 3:33
10. O Rapaz Do Trapézio 3:07
11. O Sítio 4:48
12. Uma Outra Noite 2:58
13. Fado Do Mal Passado 2:28
14. Histórias Do Tempo 3:21

Total 48:03

* Alexandre Silva (fado viola)
* Bernardo Couto (portuguese guitar)
* Cristina Branco (voice)
* Fernando Maia (bass guitar)
* José Manuel Neto (portuguese guitar)

In March 2009 Cristina Branco will present us with her new album, entitled "KRONOS". The unifying theme will be TIME, and this album will include originals composed by a dozen of very different musicians united by a common trace: all having a long career of many years, giving an extraordinary contribute to assert a quality Portuguese songbook. Jose Mario Branco, Sergio Godinho, Jorge Palma, Rui Veloso/Carlos Te, Vitorino, Janita Salome, Victorino d'Almeida, Mario Laginha, Carlos Bica, Joao Paulo Esteves da Silva and Ricardo Dias compose "KRONOS" original themes.

"KRONOS" will be the tenth album of a career which started onstage in Amsterdam, in 1996, and never stopped until today. Cristina Branco's first years' repertoire was set by a truly confessed admiration for one of the strongest personalities of Portuguese music of the XX century: Amalia Rodrigues, which still inspires Cristina nowadays. "LIVE", recorded in 2006 is a great example of this.

With "ABRIL", on the following year, Cristina Branco recreated in her own particular way, the musical and poetic world of another strong personality of Portuguese music from the last decades: Jose Afonso. As Cristina Branco says, these two records where ones "of reflection, ponderation about all that has happened" until now. With "KRONOS" the singer intends to "reflect about the now, what has been gone and what will come (...) and make the future".

Besides Cristina Branco's voice on "KRONOS" Cristina is accompanied by Ricardo Dias (piano), Jose Manuel Neto and Bernardo Couto (Portuguese guitar), Alexandre Silva (fado viola) and Fernando Maia (bass guitar).