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"Venham mais vinte 2004 - 2024"
“Venham Mais Vinte” began as an album celebrating 20 years of
journey and turned out to be an album about vulnerability.
A reflection and an exhibition on a masculine and feminine place.
That which tends to be hurt, damaged or defeated. Fragile.
Of what can be hurt. Destroyed.
“Venham Mais Vinte” is an album of risk, fragility or damage.
An album about what can be vulnerable. When vulnerability doesn't
have to be weakness, but rather courage.
If “No Lugar Dela” was empathy, “Venham Mais Vinte” is vulnerability.
The search for beauty in vulnerability.
Duarte doesn't say anything. He wants to sing as if it was the
last time.
Carlos says it's an alternative album.
Pedro says that, for a change, it's another great album.
João says it's good, but it could be better.
Naná says it could only be a Duarte album.
Vitorino says it has an air of France.
Alain says there are still another 20 years to go.
And you? What do you say?
Duarte releases his latest album "Venham Mais Vinte 2004 - 2024" in November 2024. If “No Lugar Dela” was empathy, “Venham Mais Vinte 2004 - 2024” is vulnerability. A work of searching for beauty in vulnerability.
"Over these years, we have become accustomed to admiring Duarte's voice not only for his timbral singularity or enormous expressiveness (spoken and theatrical, in some moments, with a very exact notion of what the verses require), but also for his conscious and non-negotiable firmness in singing poems that hurt and that sting, that do not accommodate loving abstractions or verses that do little more than rhyme to decorate songs that say nothing. When he sings, Duarte is sensitive and sweet, caustic and sarcastic, reflective and philosophical, depending on what the music asks of him at each moment."
By Gonçalo Frota
Graphic Design by António Faria