Bebel Gilberto - Momento (Dig)
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Free Music Review: A Great Place to Visit
Hit: 5 Stars
This is the best CD to date from Bebel. She has finally arrived at a place where her music is hers and hers alone. It is a relaxed, mellow and happy place and one that I enjoy very much.
This seems to offend some who apparently would prefer Bebel to remain in the set bounds they have proscribed for her music. Bebel dares to evolve and is damned for it ("fluff") regardless of the substantial musical merit shown.
If you go to Bebel's website you can hear the song samples better than you can here as they are better quality and longer. Listen for yourself. There is a simplicity and a sense of melody that has not shown itself before. Memento is one of my favorite songs - it is happy sultry relaxed and fun all at the same time. Bebel owns Night & Day like it were her own. While there are a couple songs that won't be fed to Itunes overall this is really a great album.
Which gets us to what music is and what it means to us. This CD takes me to a happy sunny place where I am very comfortable. What could be better than that? Isn't that really what music is supposed to do? Surely there is a place for music that challenges and amazes us but for most of my days music that soothes the mind takes me away to a place I want to be is what I want and need.
Bebel has matured into an excellent artist who is now for once fully comfortable doing what she really wants to do. She is known to be methodical about her music which is why she simply does not pump out CD's. Someone who knows of her history should be comfortable with allowing Bebel to grow and mature and in the process bring us as her audience to that place that we would like to be.
I think this is an excellent CD and look forward to Bebel's continued growth and evolution.
Free Music Review: um momento bom
Hit: 5 Stars
i have very high standards for bebel gilberto because her last two albums were exceptionally good. but luckily bebel is talented enough to satisfy my tough standards -- this album is really good too. some of the songs on here are among some of the best she's ever made. "tranquilo" is a laid back medium tempo song with lovely horns and percussion. "um segundo" is another innovation for bebel. she starts the song kind of scatting (a modernized version of what her father joao used to do as at the end of his 1959 and 1964 versions of desafinado) and then moves on with just a guitar, light percussion, and some quiet background vocals. for portuguese speakers, these lyrics are the most clever of any song she's made with a flirtatious and catchy chorus. and there were quite a few other good songs on the album.
i am seeing a trend in her music away from techno. her first album tanto tempo became a techno club favorite. it had many songs produced by suba, a yugoslavian born electronica producer who lived and made music in brazil. her eponymous second album had a few techno style songs but featured less electronica. this third album momento has only one true electronica track with a few others that will certainly be remixed into that style. i like her electronica songs, but bebel's trend away from it has been felicitous. she's really making innovative, beautiful music now.
if you liked bebel's other cds, you will like this one too. if you haven't heard her, momento is a great introduction to her music.
Free Music Review: Backdrop for Romance
Hit: 5 Stars
Music can transport, intoxicate, induce dreams and inspire delicious fantasies, ripe for enacting. Bebel Gilberto achieves this and more with the release of her third effort, "Momento".
The sensual, slow burn of her vocals and rythym allow the listener to get carried away to another place, a place where time stands still, begging one to abandon all earthly cares in favor of romantic splendor. "Momento", the opening track and CD title, peaks into Gilberto's world, with a poetic recount of pieces of her personal puzzle. "Bring Back the Love" includes a hushed moan in the background, with a steady beat and almost chant like command....
"Close to You" is about as sensual as anything you are apt to hear these days. It absolutely implores the listener to drop the material concerns to beckon one's lover..... sexy and sensual indeed.
Gilbeto's take on the standard " Night and Day" breathes new life into a romantic classic. She whispers through the urgency of this song with an understated passion, leading one to believe that the object of affection will receive the boil over of her desire. Such delivery is what illustrates a mood, making for true "mood" music.
The remaining tunes are at turns festive, contemplative and always engaging. Give way to the temptation; Bebel Gilberto offers a sublime summer album that is guarenteed to satisfy.
Free Music Review: Sweet Sounds
Hit: 5 Stars
The music of Bebel Gilberto is capable of helping us feel happy and even curious. I grew particularly fond of the tunes Momento, Azul, Os Novos Yorkinos, and Cadê Você? for the energy, harmony, poetry, and of course, Gilberto's beautiful voice. Unlike the Girl from Ipenema, Joao Gilberto's 'insensitive' beauty, this album introduces us to a woman willing to share her life stories with the help of guitars, drums, and violins. Like that Girl, she remains unapproachable. We can only admire her from afar. This sad remoteness could be helped by learning the incredible Brazilian Portugese language, at least well enough to know whether she is talking about love, life, or the pursuit of happiness. I know she is not talking about love lost. Ah, that is what is unique about her music. It is always about adding to love, never losing it.Free Music Review: YES!
Hit: 5 Stars
I was going to give this release 4 stars, like everyone else, until I put on my Sennheiser headphones and gave it another listen. I was blown away--goosebumps every other minute, and the production detail is stunning. This seems to be one of those recordings that is somewhat dependent on the quality of stereo it is played on. Sounds crazy, but I really believe it. Sounds not so good on the JVC bookshelf stereo, crappy in the Chrysler, SWEET in the Audi, and stellar on the B&W's, the latter of which gave me a total body-rush when I played Azul at high volume.
The Bottom Line: if you are a Bebel fan, you will buy this. If you're new to Bebel, I'd say start with Tanto Tempo or the Tanto Tempo Remixes. If your favorite music is Top 40 bubblegum pop, turn around and don't look back.