Pura Fé is also one I found through the Women of the
Four Winds tour, but it has been much easier finding and listening to her
music. Some of her links focus on her trio, but there is a lot of information
available, and while there are no upcoming shows listed the history shows some
fairly recent dates.
One thing I appreciated is that while she has a
variety of styles she can perform in, the albums are very focused. The songs
selected for each album go together well and form a good whole. On Hold the
Rain you hear Blues, and the guitar on the final track, "True
Freedom" is blues sublime. For a disciple of Charley Patton and an
influencer of Taj Mahal, that makes sense for Pura Fé. But then on Follow
Your Heart's Desire you hear the influence of her First Nations heritage
more, and then on Caution To The Wind you hear more jazz and it is a
different mood again.
This unity makes each album more effective, so that
a mood and message is conveyed without great effort on the part of the listener.
It also provides a good reason to put in effort, listen more deeply, and hear
why and how the album took its respective form.
I enjoyed the bounce and the romance of Caution
To The Wind (maybe I just needed to feel something more "up" this
week). Even while that appealed to me, it also includes the haunting and
beautiful, "This is Progress". It works, and belongs there, but it
stays with you in a different way.
There is a lot being offered here.
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