Mariza: Live in London
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Actor: MarizaBrand: Koch International
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 100 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-09-07
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Silva
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- Running Time 100 Min System Requirements: The Union Chapel in London provides an appropriate backdrop for the haunting sounds of Portuguese singer Mariza in this live release. Using traditional songs from her home country as a springboard for more contemporary musical ideas, Mariza flexes her vocal muscles, and wins over yet another crowd of awestruck fans. Intense and mesmerizing, this is an
Movie Reviews of Mariza: Live in London
Movie Review: PASSION AND POWER: A LIVE, FIERY PERFORMANCE BY THE 'FADO' DIVA
Summary: 5 Stars
Five Spellbinding Stars!!! This splendidly recorded BBC-produced DVD catches the fabulous 'Fado Diva' Mariza "Live in London" in a dramatically lit Union Chapel before a spellbound audience. The audience loosens up considerably when she strolls into the aisles later in the show. From her close-cut platinum wavy hairdo, suggesting futuristic female hero Trinity of "The Matrix" fame, to her traditional Portuguese hoop dresses, Mariza seems to be caught in the time warp of her mission to bring the old traditions of Portuguese 'Fado' to the rest of the current day world, while maintaining her Lisbon base. She is the Ultimate 21st Century Fadista.
Fado, to me, suggests a wonderful combination of great passion, 'saudade' (sadness/longing), tango-like musical drama, 'the blues', halting hopefulness, and in some cases, a form of African or Portuguese folk rhythms. That's the musical area code, at least. On the DVD, she gives song introductions in English, to give the audience some semblance of the meaning of the song, before launching into non-subtitled Portuguese singing. Portuguese is a language that transmits both the singer's emotions and the singer's ability to interpret a song very easily, which can be both emotionally overpowering and aurally intoxicating. Such is the case here as Mariza rivets the audience with her delivery, with her wonderful Fado trio, and two special guests.
'Pieces De Resistance', the best of the best, are the saudade-tinged "O Silencio Da Guitarra", the joyous "Maria Lisboa", "Minino Do Bairro Negro" where her emotions boil over at the end, the conflicting emotions of "Barco Negro", the accelerando instrumental "Variacoes Em Re", "Primavera", the powerful "Cavaleiro Monge", the quintet-backed and jazzy "O Deserto", and the gut-wrenching "O Gente Da Minha Tierra". Mariza is her own woman and her own unique POWERFUL singer, singing one of the world's most distinctive and invigorating music forms. She is one of the world's greatest living singers. Thanks to Mariza and the producers for the English language parts & translations. Five HUGE Stars!!
(Note:
*This 1 hour and 40 minute DVD has English subtitles for spoken Portuguese sections, spoken English introductions, and is sung in Portuguese with no subtitles.
*There is NO REGIONAL CODING, this is an NTSC COMPATIBLE DVD in (dual layer) DVD 9. PIcture format is 16:9. Dolby Digital Stereo and 5.1 Surround Sound are excellent. Please note:The DVD FROZE UP on my MAC (loaded up with a galaxy of DVD/media players), but it PLAYED EASILY on my MINTEK DVD player, so please consult your DVD manual for it's regional and functional capabilities.
*There are two beautiful Music Videos included as bonuses. Do not miss the spellbinding performance of "O Gente Da Minha Terra" (People of My Land), this version backed by guitar, or the sight of a fully-clothed Mariza wading into a flowing river. Mariza talks about Lisbon and Fado as she joyously wanders around her home town of Lisbon Portugal, sub-titled in English.
*Trivia: Mariza Nunes was born in the Portuguese colony of Mozambique and raised from the age of three in Lisbon, Portugal where she learned Fado. Her still photographs don't do her justice. She's beautiful and charismatic. )
Summary of Mariza: Live in London
MARIZA LIVE IN LONDON - DVD MovieThe new queen of the Portuguese folk music known as fado shines in the impressive Mariza Live in London, a 2003 concert recorded at the Union Chapel in London. The twentysomething Lisbon resident has been hailed as the successor to fado legend Amália Rodrigues; now, after two well-received CDs, comes Mariza's first filmed concert performance, and it is stunning. No wonder fado has been compared to the blues: the actual musical content is different, but in terms of both origin (both come from a variety of cultures, in this case including strains of Spanish, Brazilian, and African sounds) and lyrical bent (with its constant element of saudade, roughly translated as yearning or longing, fado, like blues, is mournful, soulful music), it's every bit as deep. Mariza is backed primarily by acoustic guitar, acoustic bass guitar, and "Portuguese guitar," a 12-string instrument that looks something like a lute and sounds a bit like a Greek bouzouki; there is some piano as well, and Guy Barker's muted trumpet provides "O Deserto" with a pronounced jazzy feel. But the singer is the main attraction here, and the power and passion of Mariza's delivery on "Barco Negro" and nearly all the others in the 16-song set, including more upbeat, celebratory numbers like "Oica La o Senhor Vinho" (the introductions are in English, but the tunes are all in Portuguese) are undeniable. Add to that Mariza's black cloak and clothing, her stylish, peroxide-blonde perm, and her highly theatrical movements and expressions, along with the darkened chapel and superb lighting, and you've got an audio-visual experience so dramatic and moving that it easily renders the language barrier irrelevant. --Sam Graham
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