Lina_Raül Refree (PT) at Alice cph

“Move over, Rosalía – fado is the new flamenco”, wrote The Guardian when the extraordinary duo of Lina and Raül Refree released their duo album on Glitterbeat in the beginning of 2020. This was fado rewired and recast, doing very much with the genre what Rosalía has done with the treasured Spanish flamenco.

Shedding the skin. A fresh beginning. That’s what renowned fado singer Lina and producer/multi-instrumentalist Raül Refree (Rosalía, Lee Ranaldo, Josh Rouse etc.) have given Portuguese fado on “Lina_Raül Refree”. They’ve sloughed off the old trappings and exacting traditions of the country’s national music and given it into a perfect fit for the 21st century. Gone are the chiming guitars that were the music’s instrumental trademark and in their place comes piano and analogue synths. Together, they’ve reinvented the music that holds a nation’s soul, and done it while keeping the rich beauty of the melodies and the aching poetry of the words that are such a vital part of the tradition....

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“Move over, Rosalía – fado is the new flamenco”, wrote The Guardian when the extraordinary duo of Lina and Raül Refree released their duo album on Glitterbeat in the beginning of 2020. This was fado rewired and recast, doing very much with the genre what Rosalía has done with the treasured Spanish flamenco.

Shedding the skin. A fresh beginning. That’s what renowned fado singer Lina and producer/multi-instrumentalist Raül Refree (Rosalía, Lee Ranaldo, Josh Rouse etc.) have given Portuguese fado on “Lina_Raül Refree”. They’ve sloughed off the old trappings and exacting traditions of the country’s national music and given it into a perfect fit for the 21st century. Gone are the chiming guitars that were the music’s instrumental trademark and in their place comes piano and analogue synths. Together, they’ve reinvented the music that holds a nation’s soul, and done it while keeping the rich beauty of the melodies and the aching poetry of the words that are such a vital part of the tradition.

Lina has stated: “We’ve updated fado. But we only tried to make music that moves people.” Without doubt, this is also what they will do when they perform in Copenhagen in November.


Melankolsk skønhed og innovativ produktion går hånd i hånd, når den portugisiske sangerinde Lina løfter fado’en ind i nye lydlandskaber med Raül Refree (Rosalía, Lee Ranaldo, Josh Rouse m.fl.).

Koncerten foregår i Musikhuset København og er med unumm. siddepladser.

“Move over, Rosalía – fado is the new flamenco”. Sådan lød en overskrift fra The Guardian i starten af 2020, hvor den bemærkelsesværdige duo Lina_Raül Refree netop havde udgivet deres fælles album på Glitterbeat.

Det er da også nærliggende at drage en parallel til den måde, hvorpå den catalanske stjerne Rosalía har skabt overskrifter ved at forny Spaniens traditionelle flamenco med moderne produktioner. Raül Refree har da også arbejdet som producer med netop Rosalía. Det arbejde imponerede den portugisiske fado-sangerinde Lina så meget, at hun rakte ud til ham og inviterede ham til at samarbejde med hende om et album. Lina_Raül Refree var født.

Lina er en kunstner, der aldrig har været bange for at afprøve nye ting. Som helt ung studerede hun opera, inden hun kastede sig over Portugals dybe musikalske arv: den gribende smukke og melankolske fado. Hurtigt blev hun et kendt som en af genrens spændende yngre fortolkere, ikke mindst som en intens fortolker af fado-dronningen Amália Rodrigues’ repertoire.

Det er også materiale associeret med Amália Rodrigues, som man primært finder på det roste album med Raül Refree. Indpakningen bryder dog med forventningen om, hvordan fado kan lyde. De smægtende guitarer er erstattet af minimalistisk klaver og analoge synths i et både nedbarberet og nuanceret semi-elektronisk univers, der smukt underbygger fadoens sørgmodige stemninger. Lina er en kunstner, der forstår, at en tradition må udvikles gennem nybrud. Man er dog aldrig i tvivl om hendes dedikation og passion for genren. Som hun selv siger: “We’ve updated fado. But we only tried to make music that moves people.”

Når man lytter til Lina_Raül Refree er det da netop også hvad man bliver: Bevæget. Oplev selv, når denne mageløse duo gæster Musikhuset København med atmosfæriske nyfortolkninger af fadoens smerte og skønhed til november.

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