Is a music as dangerous as delightful
God bless them. To take us so unware it could be seem as an inconvenience, but is not only necessary as welcome. It can not be seem with the mention of a ‘Pop Fado’ embellishement, we won’t perceive the idea if we think like that. Lady and Gentlemen, put out of your head, before it is too late, so that you can, without delay, derive profite from the portuguese outstanding music; portuguesefully anti-portuguese and anti-everything except anti-music; The ‘A Naifa’.

João Aguardela
bass
Maria Antónia
Mendes

vocals
Luís Varatojo
portuguese guitar

a star is born
As God Is My Cleaning Lady: Crypto-Fado For Bohemian Pagan Popsters.
They can’t play their classical Fado guitars very well; they have a punky drummer and the Fado singer not only smiles pouts and shakes her hips, but actually seems to enjoy herself !
What’s become of this country? Are they mad? Reckless, certainly.
They call themselves A Naifa and what they’ve done is taken a massive, ice-crunching Waring Pro blender to all the sacred potions, fruits and flavours of Portuguese traditional music and poured out a vulgar, shameless, disrespectful and utterly delicious shambles of a Pop cocktail.
Heresy in old Lisbon?
I nearly choked on my 30-year-old aguardente velha, but then realized I was dancing merrily and had already spilt most of it anyway.

Miguel Esteves Cardoso

 


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