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Marisa Monte
Marisa Monte - Cor-de-rosa E Carvao Mpb Brazil Import
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Artist:
Bebel Gilberto
These Tanto Tempo Remixes are handled with impeccable taste by a creamy crop that includes Rae & Christian, the Truby Trio, Peter Kruder, Da Lata, 4 Hero and King Britt. Just as the New York-based Gilberto becomes more punchy in the live arena, these reconfigurations squirt tripping beats, boost bass frequencies and generally push towards a rippling Latin house sound. Gilberto's deft bossa vocal phrasing reaches right back to the 1960s, but her band, and now her remixers, are attuned to the electro reinvigorations that are currently sweeping through Brazil. Rae & Christian's "Bananeira" has a curious Bo Diddley stomp, with clipped trumpet answered by gruff trombone...
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Various Artists
This 1995 tribute to the late Brazilian bossa nova master draws from the cream of the Verve/Polygram jazz catalogue. Saxophonist Stan Getz, who introduced the sublimely sensual bossa nova to North American audiences in the early 60s, is joined by vocalist João Gilberto on the well-known title track and by guitarist Luiz Bonfa on the exquisite "O Morro Nao Tem Vez". Sarah Vaughan ("Corcovado"), Billy Eckstine ("Felicidade"), Wes Montgomery ("How Insensitive") and Oscar Peterson ("Wave") also turn in classic performances from the 60s. Jobim himself offers guitar and piano accompaniment on several tracks and duets with Brazilian vocalist Elis Regina on "Aguas de Marco". Alt...
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Artist:
Beleza Tropical
With this first compilation, Talking Heads lead singer and Luakabop label founder David Byrne dove deep into the rich well of Brazilian music and came up with some of its most glittering gems. This collection mainly follows Tropicalismo, the late sixties and seventies flowering of Brazilian music as it moved from its traditional forms of samba, jazz and bossa nova and opened itself up to the rock and psychedelia coming from America and the UK. Kicking off with Jorge Ben's (he of "Mas Que Nada" fame) riveting tribute to black footballers ("Ponta de Lanca Africana") it quickly gets into the works of proven masters such as Gilberto Gil, Milton Nascimento, Chico Buarque and C...
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Olodum
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Artist:
Stan Getz,
Joao Gilberto,
Antonio Carlos Jobim
Originally released in March 1964, this collaboration between saxophonist Stan Getz and guitarist João Gilberto came at seemingly the end of the bossa nova craze Getz himself had sparked in 1962 with Jazz Samba, his release with American guitarist Charlie Byrd. Jazz Samba remains the only jazz album to reach number one in the pop charts. In fact, the story goes that Getz had to push for the release of Getz/Gilberto since the company did not want to compete with its own hit; it was a good thing he did. Getz/Gilberto, which featured composer Antonio Carlos Jobim on piano, not only yielded the hit "Girl from Ipanema" (sung by Astrud Gilberto, the...
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Artist:
Daniela Mercury
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Artist:
Bebel Gilberto
As the daughter of the legendary Joao Gilberto, you'd expect something good from Bebel, and fortunately she supplies with a mostly Portuguese-sung set of up to the minute bossa nova-influenced music. Using producers such as the late Suba, whose work on an elegant and sunny version of Baden Powell's classic "Samba da Bencao" integrates electronics with "real" instruments beautifully, Bebel Gilberto has made "Tanto Tempo" a seductive, forward-looking modern Brazilian album. An album that nonetheless references the past intelligently. "August Day Song", a duet with Smoke City's Nina Miranda follows, with the space in the bossa rhythm filled with unorthodox ambiences. The tit...
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Artist:
Bebel Gilberto
Daughter of the famed Brazilian pop and bossa nova singer João Gilberto, Bebel recalls her father's own classic recordings on Tanto Tempo, with a sure sense of pitch. Bebel Gilberto is hardly less charming for that, though, and the album entices with hushed passion. Relying mostly on acoustic instruments and some muted orchestrations, Tanto Tempo is nonetheless smartly paced to allow for some tasteful dance-club electronics to augment a few tracks, and ends on a celebratory note with "Close Your Eyes"--all but an invitation to Carnival. The current trend for things Brazilian should assure this disc a deservedly wide audience. --Rickey Wright
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Artist:
Sergio Mendes & Brasil '66
Keyboard virtuoso, composer and arranger, Sergio Mendes and his band Brasil 66 have been at the crux of the country's burgeoning music scene for many years. Integrating a multitude of Brazilian forms, including samba and bossa nova, with established jazz orchestration The Very Best Of double album is a definitive guide to the group's disparate musical history. Fruitful collaborations with Herb Alpert and his wife, vocalist Lani Hall, resulted in the recording of the Beatles' "Day Tripper" amongst others. Indeed, Mendes shows a prolific taste for Lennon and McCartney compositions which are scattered here between intuitive reworkings of some Brazilian masterpieces s...
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