Diana Pequeno
Mistérios LP

A masterpiece of new Brazilian soul music, “Mistérios” does its best to further blur and stretch the boundaries of this new jazz folk sound Diana was exploring. This original bathes the vagaries of love and longing via luxurious, fleeting, floating multi-harmonies Diana uses to sing us through to that other side. Summer-y in the way sunlit breezes are when they change at the rise of the evening’s moon. “Mistérios” marks a turning point easing us through the rest of the album.

Mistérios just streams through the mind. “Tudo No Olhar” is dust-settled folk belonging  far out on some road on the track to some home we long longed to get to. The great Papete laces Diana’s reimagining of a Cape Verde traditional song “Ser Feliz É Melhor Que Nada” as a hypnotic fourth world-esque sidebar. Volta Sêca’s equally hypnotic “Mulher Rendeira” gets its own floating reimagining under Diana’s auspices.

SECOND HAND / Released in: 1989 

Cover: VG+ / Record: NM

Tracklist:

A1 Tudo que Eu Quero (All I Want)

A2 Olhos Abertos

A3 As Ilhas

A4 Mistérios

A5 Tudo no Olhar

B1 Ser Feliz É Melhor que Nada

B2 Mulher Rendeira

B3 Mil Melodias

B4 Jeito de Viver

B5 Analfabetos do Amor

B6 Imagens e Sentimentos