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Rachel Unthank at the Green Man Festival

'The BAIRNS' (EMI), the new album by RACHEL UNTHANK & THE WINTERSET, continues to captivate not only the listening public but also the media. 2007-8 has proved a great year for this quartet of young Geordie women. They won the Horizon Award in the BBC Folk Awards and garnered praise from not only the folk press but also significant rock and pop critics like Paul Morley. The national mainstream press from the Guardian and Independent (who both had major features) to The Sun (full-page feature) was very supportive. They are shortly finishing a tour of Australia and will be touring the UK again in April / May 2008.

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John Crosby is a leading specialist music publicist/PR, handling UK national press campaigns for such artists as Mariza, Camille, Yasmin Levy, Lila Downs, Rachel Unthank & The Winterset, Alasdair Roberts, Bill Callahan, Thomas Mapfumo, Natacha Atlas, Los De Abajo, Värttinä, Oysterband, Tito Paris, Sara Tavares, Martin Hayes & Dennis Cahill and many others over the past twenty years

 

"(Mariza)...has a fabulously effective publicity machine"
THE INDEPENDENT (Friday October 31st 2003)

 

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Portuguese fado sensation MARIZA

STOP PRESS: MARIZA will be releasing, on 28 April 2008, a box set of her work so far. Titled simply Mariza (EMI), the long-box style digi-pack case includes her first four albums Fado Em Mim, Fado Curvo, Transparente, Concerto Em Lisboa (here as a DVD of the concert, rather than the original CD, and including The Making of the Video Meu Fado Meu) plus a second DVD of Mariza And The Story Of Fado. The package also has a booklet containing numerous photographs of the singer and extensive sleevenotes. A brand new album will be released later in 2008 and the singer will play the UK in November 2008. Further details of the latter will appear here shortly.


Mariza Box Set

In a few short years, MARIZA has established herself as the iconic face of Portuguese Fado, seducing audiences worldwide with her awesome singing, charismatic stage presence and powerful blend of traditional and contemporary song forms.

Following on from her internationally acclaimed albums Fado Em Mim (World Connection) and Fado Curvo (EMI/Virgin), Mariza released her much anticipated, third CD Transparente (EMI). Recorded in Brazil with the musician and producer JAQUES MORELENBAUM, its subtle arrangements create a breathtaking sound palette over which Mariza's stunning voice weaves and casts its spell. (Morelenbaum is a byword in the world of music, having produced the albums Livro by Caetano Veloso, the winner of the 1999 Grammy Award for Best World Music Album, and António Brasileiro by Tom Jobim.)

The insight and restraint of the production and the playing of the accompanying musicians enhances and deepens the fado experience, bringing new sonic surprises to the fado tradition rather than transplanting the singer into other musical forms. The vocals interplay with such instruments as flute, cello and accordion as well as the Portuguese guitar that has added its distinct notes to all of Mariza's albums. Here the old touches the new in a creative, positive and exciting direction.

After playing many sold out concerts at London's Queen Elizabeth Hall, Royal Festival Hall and Barbican, and headlining such festivals as WOMAD, Mariza fulfilled a life-long dream by playing the Royal Albert Hall to a capacity audience late in 2006. Her fourth album Concerto Em Lisboa (EMI) consolidates this pre-eminent role as a consummate artiste both "live" and in the recording studio.

"Mariza has it all - charisma, a voice to die for and stunning looks...destined to become one of the world's great divas" THE TIMES

"Moves the soul with haunting melodies...her voice was breathtaking" SUNDAY TIMES

"Having breathed new life into fado, the traditional Portuguese 'blues', singer Mariza is poised to go global" THE TELEGRAPH

"Mariza had the audience spellbound...her almost impossibly full, golden voice seemed capable of conveying a multitude of emotions within a range that any self-respecting diva or torch singer would kill for" THE GUARDIAN

"Last night's (Queen Elizabeth Hall) show was a sell-out, as is the extra show arranged for Friday and most of her (début) UK tour. One thing is certain, as Mariza's name spreads, everyone is going to cherish the fact that they were there last night" LONDON EVENING STANDARD