Around The World (04)

Hello as announced last week a great singer of around the world music today, Lhasa de Sela, her gorgeous voice can get under your skin so i'd say i didnt warn you, well i integrated some YouTubes here of her artistry so make sure you check that.

Lhasa de Sela - The Living Road (04 ^ 99mb)

Lhasa de Sela (born 1972), better known as Lhasa, is a singer and songwriter who was raised in Mexico and the United States and now lives in Canada. - Lhasa was born of a Mexican father of Panamanian-Polish-French-Spanish descent and an American mother of Lebanese-Scottish-Russian Jewish descent. Maybe it was Lhasa's unconventional upbringing that has given her such a unique vision, or maybe it was always within her. Whatever the reason, she stands as one of the most idiosyncratic Mexican-American performers, fully aware of the tradition, but putting her own spin on it. The big family (Lhasa has three sisters, three half-sisters, and three half-brothers) was fairly nomadic and their travels took them between the U.S. and Mexico, traveling and living in a converted school bus. It was an arty life of music, books, and letters, but without the insidious influence of television, banned by her parents. At age nineteen she moved to Montréal and sang for five years in bars, where she developed the material that eventually became her first album, La Llorona, released in 1997. La Llorona, which mixes traditional South American songs with original songs, was strongly influenced by Mexican music, but also Eastern European gypsy music and alternative rock. The album brought her much acclaim and success.

Lhasa toured extensively after the surprise international success of La Llorona. In concert, Lhasa was by turns both shy and generous, and she gave a lot of herself away to her audiences. When the strain of touring threatened to overwhelm her, she knew she needed a break. Her escape route was waiting. Lhasa ran away to France join a contemporary one-ring circus "Pocheros" created and mounted by her 3 sisters.In France Lhasa lived a busy nomadic life, embraced by the loving and chaotic extended family the circus provided. Feeling refreshed, by 1999 Lhasa began to write new songs. She collaborated with French singer Arthur H, and contributed to a duet on an album by The Tindersticks. Eventually a relationship took her to Marseilles, where Lhasa began to hone the ideas she had gathered on the road and write songs about love and creativity, apocalypse and hope. These are the songs of The Living Road.

As you can see some of the tracks are highlighted , Con Toda Palabra is a great videoclip, the others are from broadcast live concerts, so you know what to expect (youtube).



01 - Con Toda Palabra (4:30)
02 - La Marée Haute (3:24)
03 - Anywhere On This Road (4:37)
04 - Abro La Ventana (4:03)
05 - J'Arrive À La Ville (5:58)
06 - La Frontera (3:02)
07 - La Confession (3:45)
08 - Small Song (2:26)
09 - My Name (4:17)
10 - Pa' Llegar A Tu Lado (4:32)
11 - Para El Fin Del Mundo O El Año Nuevo (4:23)
12 - Soon This Space Will Be Too Small (4:46)

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