Ennio Morricone e Dulce Pontes - Focus [Flac][TntVillage]

Artist...............: Pontes, Dulce & Morricone, Ennio
Album................: Focus
Genre................: Soundtrack
Source...............: CD
Year.................: 2003
Ripper...............: EAC (Secure mode) / LAME 3.92 & Asus CD-S520
Codec................: Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)
Version..............: reference libFLAC 1.2.1 20070917
Quality..............: Lossless, (avg. compression: 53 %)
Channels.............: Stereo / 44100 HZ / 16 Bit
Tags.................: VorbisComment
Information..........: TntVillage

Ripped by............: Leonenero on 07/06/2016
Posted by............: Leonenero on 09/06/2016
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Included.............: NFO, LOG, PAR, CUE
Covers...............: Front Back CD

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Tracklisting
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1. The Ballad Of Sacco E Vanzetti (Sacco E Vanzetti) [04:40]
2. Someone You Once Knew (Per Le Antiche Scale) [03:12]
3. Voo [04:54]
4. I Girasoli [03:23]
5. House Of No Regrets (Chi Mai) [04:00]
6. Barco Abandonado (Per Le Antiche Scale) [03:22]
7. Cinema Paradiso (Tema De Amor De Cinema Paradiso) [02:45]
8. A Rose Among Thorns (The Mission) [05:53]
9. Renascer (Moses) [03:24]
10. No Ano Que Vem (Come Maddalena) [04:36]
11. Your Love (Once Upon A Time In The West) [03:44]
12. Amália Por Amor [06:09]
13. Nosso Mar (Metti Ana Sera A Cena) [04:22]
14. Antiga Palavra [04:50]
15. Luz Prodigiosa (Luz Prodigiosa) [04:44]

Playing Time.........: 01:04:06
Total Size...........: 343,01 MB

This is an impressive album where Dulce Pontes turns cinematic themes from the Morricone repertoire into songs in English, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese, and she is breathtaking in most of them.
Dulce Pontes embellishes Morricone's compositions with an epic grandeur that few other singers could have achieved.
Her voice is very potent and playful, yet subtle when necessary.
I'm always surprised by how gracefully her vocals blend with the music and succeed in recreating the absurdity, the nuances, and the overwhelming beauty of Morricone's eccentric musical temperament. My favorite songs are those in English, particularly "Your Love" (with music from Once Upon a Time in the West). Dulce's elegant venture into a Brazilian arrangement makes "Nosso Mar" another favorite of mine. Her best achievement, however, is probably "No Ano Que Vem", a song inspired by Jerusalem and set to the strangely upbeat music from the film Maddalena.
Focus is a superb accomplishment in Dulce's career. In the end, one could not possibly deny her the classical stature of Ennio Morricone.