Waldemar Bastos Pretaluz 2023-05-26 Steel Tongues

Steel Tongues

" which stands for "White Trash Party") into this emotionally heavy album

it's what gives the album multiple dimensions

" and he distorts his voice at will

Waldemar Bastos Pretaluz 2023-05-26 Steel TonguesThe worldwide debut of the Angolan artist, produced by Arto Lindsay, and one of the great, overlooked records of 1998, as the New York Times wrote. With his dramatic pauses and dynamic vibrato rising above subtle rhythms picked out on nylon string guitars, everything Mr. Bastos sings emerges as a lament of enormous sadness. Now on vinyl for the very first time, Pretaluz [Blacklight] is a contender for the best sounding record on Luaka Bop. A1.