"Menescantando"

Jornal das Letras, Portugal

Review by André Pinto, 04-17 Sep 2013 

A voz é suave com uma estimulante discrição e, por vezes, Amália canta a rir, o que evidencia o prazer que deve ter tido ao fazer este disco, e que acaba por passar também para nós, que o desfrutamos.

Ziriguidum, Brasil

Review by Beto Feitosa, 01 Sep 2013 

Amália é cantora com voz de bossa nova, canto discreto e sincopado no balanço desse samba diferente criado por João Gilberto. Ela entende isso e prova quando navega em clássicos de Menescal como O barquinho...

Latin Jazz Network (LJN), Canada

Review by Raul da Gama, 21 Jul 2013 

Ms. Baraona’s performance is outstanding on all twelve tunes. But none is more spectacular in the one that is the true test of her soulful feeling form Roberto Menescal’s music: “O barquinho”. It would seem that the five decades between when the song was written and when it is being sung, are completely stripped away. Moreover, it would seem that Roberto Menescal wrote this legendary and elegiac ballad just for Amália Baraona...

London Jazz News, UK

Review by Alison Bentley, 20 Dec 2012

Amália sings with a beguiling mixture of insouciance and precision. She sounds a little like the newer wave of Brazilian singers, Joyce or Bebel Gilberto, but sings like herself. In Brasil Precisa Balançar, she uses the Portuguese language like a percussion instrument; the sounds fit so naturally with the Bossa rhythms, whilst sparking against the beat...

Mark Reilly, Independent reviewer, Scotland

12 Dec 2012

The delicate, unfussy arrangements provide a cool, contemporary feel to the twelve songs on their welcome journey across the Atlantic. "Menescantando" is in essence an impressive statement from an already distinctive voice.