The young Dom la Nena gave a magical concert on September 27 in the intimacy of the Centquatre. She took the opportunity to unveil some tracks from her new EP: Cantando.
Two albums, beautiful encounters, a start of international tour and here is Dominique Pinto, Dom la Nena, in Paris. Very happy to return home, she shares with her audience a privileged concert full of tenderness, candor and magic.
Between forro rhythm, waltz, in Portuguese or Spanish, the concert begins timidly, soberly. But quickly Dom la Nena addresses her audience with her mischievous and sweet little voice, and that smile from ear to ear that will not leave her of the evening. Young Dom has the gift of tenderizing and amazing you.
On stage, she is a real woman orchestra who goes from cello to percussion, from ukulele to guitar. Alone, she loops her instruments to compose her pieces live. Of course the process is common but there is something of the game in its approach. Like a lego construction, everything fits together perfectly and its colorful music makes us travel.
She takes us to Buenos Aires, to Lisboa, she makes the room sing and her music makes the heads waltz that sway in rhythm. She makes light appear at her fingertips, turning the sound of her strings into sparks to light stars in the room. A true poet, a fairy from a universe at the crossroads of styles and influences, she tells us stories.
She launches a dance contest and invites the public to stand up since she can only waddle behind her cello. The winner of this contest will win his latest album, Soyo, released in 2015. The loser will win the right to buy it after the concert. A song is not enough it continues with a more rhythmic title!
After this sporting activity Dom sings us, accompanied by his luminous ukulele, a feminine rhyme of love before offering us a Spanish lesson: "La nena soy yo". Once the words are learned, all that remains is to repeat them with her.
She also draws some songs from the Brazilian repertoire: Lupicínio Rodrigues from whom she borrows Felicidad, a great classic. This song is about giving importance to simple things to be happy. The author had then found happiness in small country towns. Dom la Nena then wonders: when you have places that breathe culture like Paris, are you happy there? The answer seems obviously positive.
For this concert, she invited one of her teenage idols: Vincent Segal. She had the opportunity to meet him through mutual friends, but had never dared to ask him to play with her. It's done and this duo is fantastic! The connection is quickly made between the two musicians, a game is set up and born a beautiful complicity; It is a real pleasure to be able to attend.Among the titles that follow, Dom will again draw from the Brazilian repertoire with a bossa, a fisherman's song: Morena do Mar. His voice that almost whispers the lyrics, the singing is whispered to his cello: it is a tender moment.
Again alone on stage, she performs her latest song Anjo Gabriel, an enchanting slow waltz.
Obviously, she is called back and it is again a title of her latest EP that she sings. A cover of the famous Gracias a la vida, by Violeta Parra.
Vincent Segal then returns for a little Samba by Jorge Ben. What we thought was the end of the concert, will then be only a sequence of small encores.La Nena will return to sing La Nena Soy Yo with the audience, then again with Vincent Ségal to conclude, salute, before disappearing backstage.
Leaving the room, we find her smiling and close to her audience to sign her album. The latest EP, Cantando, meanwhile, was released on September 30 and it's a tasty selection of covers.
But the question remains: when will there be a third album? In a short time we hope!
