Raquel Tavares releases new album “Deles Por Mim (e à moda antiga)”

Raquel Tavares returns with a new full-length album, eight years after her last one. “Deles Por Mim (e à moda antiga)” is available on all platforms now.

“Deles Por Mim (e à moda antiga)” is a fado album. It doesn’t pretend to be anything more than that. Fados, in their most traditional form, accompanied by Portuguese guitar, viola, and bass, by musicians who have been part of Raquel Tavares’ journey in fado, on albums, and on the road.

Recorded in direct takes, meaning musicians and voice simultaneously, without cuts or corrections. Therefore, it has the rawness and imperfections that this method entails, but it’s a return to a very specific way of recording fado on record.

The repertoire, perhaps, isn’t the most predictable, considering it’s a woman singing poetry intended for men. Poetry that, above all, recounts men’s love for women, with all that it entails: passion, jealousy, enchantment, possession, spite, and even betrayal.

“Women, in their entirety, have always been one of the greatest sources of inspiration for writers, with poetic images that only women could create, and from there were born some of the greatest classics in the history of fado, with sublime interpretations that challenged me. But those with whom I learned to sing fado would say: – You can’t sing that one, because it’s a man’s fado. – But I just wanted to savour the verses… The moment I decided to record another album, I knew right away that this was what I wanted to do, almost in a daring ‘now I can’,” says Raquel Tavares about the inspiration and creation process of this new album.

“For me, it’s simply an immense desire to sing, to return to my roots and my first identity. Without stigmas. Their fados, sung by me. That’s all,” concludes the fado singer.

On December 5th, Raquel Tavares will take to one of the most emblematic national stages, the Coliseu dos Recreios, in Lisbon. In this unique concert, Raquel appears free, renewed, and true to her artistic self, reconnecting with the stage and the audience in a rare moment of surrender. This promises to be a reunion with tradition, with longing, and with the Portuguese soul that Raquel carries in her voice and heart. A show that will be, above all, an act of freedom – and a gesture of love for the music that has always defined her. The last tickets are still on sale.

01 – Ai Se Os Meus Olhos Falassem
02 – Amor é a Água Que Corre
03 – Trigueirinha
04 – Por Morrer Uma Andorinha
05 – Carta à Minha Mãe
06 – História de Uma Chinela
07 – Pontas Soltas
08 – Cravo de São João
09 – Mulher Deixada
10 – A Viela

Technical sheet “Deles Por Mim (e à moda antiga)”:

ARTIST / PERFORMER
Raquel Tavares

MIXING
Diogo Clemente

MASTERING
Nélson Canoa

COMPOSERS
Oh, If My Eyes Could Speak – Nóbrega e Sousa, Jerónimo Bragança
Love is Running Water – Alfredo Duarte Marceneiro, Augusto Sousa
Letter to My Mother – Domingos Gonçalves da Costa, Pedro Rodrigues
Carnation of St. John – Aníbal Nazaré, Martinho D’Assuncação
Story of a Slipper – Manuel Paixão, Eduardo Damas
Abandoned Woman – Ricardo Galeno
Loose Ends – Maria do Rosário Pedreira and Joaquim Campos
For a Swallow to Die – Francisco Viana, Frederico de Brito, Américo Santos
Trigueirinha – António Vilar da Costa, Jorge Fernando
The Alley – Guilherme Pereira da Rosa, Alfredo Duarte Marceneiro

MUSICIANS
Trigueirinha / Abandoned Woman – Custódio Castelo, Jorge Fernando, Filipe Larsen
For a Swallow to Die / Loose Ends – Pedro Castro, André Ramos, Francisco Gaspar
If My Eyes Could Speak / The Story of a Slipper – Bernardo Couto, Diogo Clemente, Yami
I Went from Alley to Alley / Letter My Mother – Ângelo Freire, Diogo Clemente, Marino de Freitas
Love is Running Water / St. John’s Carnation – André Dias, Bernardo Viana, Daniel Pinto

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Published on 2025.11.28