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Hailed as “one of the great, overlooked records of 1998,” by the NY Times, this debut was recorded and produced by Arto Lindsay and David Byrne in New York. Its title, which means “blacklight” in Portuguese, is a hint to the powerful sorrow the music holds: Pretaluz is an elegiac response to the Angolan Civil War, drawing from fado, semba, zouk, and morna, to create indelible songs.
