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Franca Masu

The prime representative of the Catalan-rooted culture of Alghero, a fisherman’s village in northern Sardinia, the singer Franca Masu breathes and transmits an artistic spirit filled by both land and sea, as well as a progressive mentality deeply anchored in the ancient traditions of the millennium-old cultures of the Mediterranean. Alghero has always been the region of Sardinia with the most exposure to the outside world, constantly searching for new contacts and exchanges with the Spanish and Portuguese coasts of the western Mediterranean arch. Franca Masu’s voice is a tender mélange of the maritime air and the artistic sensations from neighbouring and sister cultures that have intermixed and influenced one another mutually throughout the centuries. Her deep and piercing voice, full of suggestive shades and colours, intensely versatile all the while, has found its purpose in the musical world.

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Album Review

Franca Masu: Almablava

Read "Almablava" reviewed by Neri Pollastri


A tredici anni dal suo primo album, El mio viatge, a dieci esatti da quell'Alguìmia che ce l'aveva fatta scoprire come originalissima interprete del dialetto catalano parlato nella sua Alghero, e dopo un lavoro--l'ultimo, Hoy como ayer, del 2008--interamente dedicato al tango, Franca Masu torna ad Alghero, come lei stessa afferma nelle belle note di copertina: torna cioé alle proprie radici di donna e d'artista, al suo particolarissimo dialetto e alle suggestioni della sua isola--che sono tante e mutevoli, per ...

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Interview

Franca Masu Interview

Franca Masu Interview

Source: All About Jazz

This interview is part of the book project Under your skin which will include Interviews with: TM Stevens, Anthony Braxton, Ornette Coleman, Zap Mama, Chuck D / Public Enemy, Les Nubians, Taj Mahal, Yusef Lateef, Dj Vadim, Bob James, Living Colour, Marilyn Crispell, Dick Griffin, Bill Frisell, Billy Bang, Kahil El'Zabar, Michael Ricci / Allaboutjazz.com, Val-Inc, Lonnie Liston Smith, Roy Nathanson, J Mascis/Dinosaur Jr, Lydia Lunch, Fred Frith, Elliot ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Almablava

Felmay
2014

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Acquamare

Dunya Records
2007

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