Bebel Gilberto - Tanto Tempo
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Free Music Review: Top-notch Stuff
Hit: 5 Stars
If you listen carefully to this CD and you don't feel anything then do me a favor. Get someone to check out your vital signs fast. I'm really worried about you! Every track on this CD is top-notch stuff including the three bonus tracks on the Japanese release and that's is no small feat. I can count the records and CD's in my library on one hand that meet this qualification. But before you strap on you seatbelt for this listening experience please remember that this is not going to be what you've come to expect if you like Astrud Gilberto of "Girl from Ipanema" fame. Astrud creates a slightly detached Jazz sound in her music that's a magical sort of a musical tease. "Tanto Tempo" represents a different sort of art. I don't think of "Tanto Tempo" as a Jazz CD though some might argue the point. To appreciate this CD you need to reorient your listening expectations just slightly to accept a new interpretation or two of old standards and mentally prepare yourself for a journey in some new listening directions.
Bebel's voice is recorded very dry (very little reverb and effects), which has the effect of making her seem close and intimate. Supporting instrumental arrangements, on the other hand, are recorded with some very wet elements. The result is a product that has an intimate yet soothing, dreamy quality.
This CD is about a lot more than Bebel's voice though. It's also about the drama in her delivery, the lyrics and compositions that she wrote, the arrangements and creative talents of Suba, and the technical skills of the team that all came together perfectly to produce this disc.
Yes, there are some highly processed (electronic) tracks here but also there are tracks of just Bebel Gilberto singing by herself with a single guitar. "Samba e Amor" on the US release and "So Nice" track twelve on the Japan release are fine examples of straight up voice-on-guitar. These tracks are intimate, dramatic, and just beautiful, not to downplay the value of the highly produced tracks on this disc. "Alguém" opens with a fascinating metal percussion sequence (in an electronic loop). Hey, it works, whatever! Get hypnotized by the intricate tone weavings in this wonderful track.
Please permit me one last comment. Legendary recordings that have featured great studio effects are sometimes very difficult to reproduce in live stage performance. This is especially true on a tour where the acoustic environment changes at every pit stop. Artists are often forced to invent new stage versions of each studio recording from the ground up and the end results may still be frustratingly crude approximations of the original studio products. Sometimes the best stage solution ends up being a completely different creation that is hopefully as pleasing to the audience as the CD release that got everyone motivated to turn out for the show in the first place. Because of this, I ask you to cut Bebel some slack on live performances. Consider the merits of this recording, or any recording for that matter, as a work of art in its own right, independent of other renditions of the material in other mediums.
Free Music Review: THIS IS JUST SO NICE
Hit: 5 Stars
This disc is just the hottest, sexiest, sweetest, smoothest, dreamiest disc that I have heard ever. First of all, it's about time someone updated the sound of Bossa Nova. It is not 1965 anymore. Everything on this disc is slowed down, and interspersed with electronica, trip hop beats, slow chill grooves, and deep bass. What an improvement. Half of the songs are straight bossa nova, and half are bossa dance chill electronica, or whatever they are calling it today. The production quality is so clear, warm, modern, first rate, that you will be transported to somewhere in South American on the opening note. The sound quality is definately 21st Century. The production quality of this disc is so unlike anything else that I would buy it just to hear the sound. Astounding is an appropriate term. Now the singing. Bebel Gilberto is so clear, soft, she sells you the sex without any sleaze. She's just so nice. She's just so honest. Her voice is gorgeous. Period. Her voice sells you on how fabulous this disc is. Nine of the eleven songs are sung in Portugese and the other two in English. I don't understand a word she is saying, and I could care less. Brazillian Portugese is so erotic and sensual, I wouldn't have it any other way. When I first put this on and listened I was shocked at the clarity and the atmosphere. This disc is atmospheric. You are in Brasil. Now I want to talk about "So Nice (Summer Samba)". This is a song that is older than the hills and every arrangement makes you feel like you are in a roller rink with the cheesy organ that is always used. No one takes this song seriously anymore. This arrangement is the definitive arrangement of this song. Bebel has taken this song and given it credibility and meaning. When she says that being with you would be so nice, she takes the sleaze out of love. She is the girl next door. I feel like a kid again, with a view of love that is just so nice. I just smile. This song, the way she sings it just makes me smile. The music, the production and the singing on this disc are very special. I have been telling every friend I have about this, and I implore you to buy this disc.Free Music Review: Make room in your CD collection for another Gilberto!
Hit: 5 Stars
Brasilian music has a few multi-generational dynasties--the Velosos (Caetano and Moreno, sister Maria Bethania), the Caymmis (Dorival, Danilo, Dori, the sublime Nana)--and now we can add one more name to the Gilberto dynasty. Bebel does her famous parents proud: her mother Miucha was a favourite singer of Antonio Carlos Jobim, and father Joćo is, for many people, the very embodiment of bossa nova. She sounds as close as we could ever hope to a Brasilian Sade, but her voice can be as light and wistful as Astrud Gilberto, or as sultry as Diana Krall. The CD opens quietly, softly, before launching into "Tanto Tempo," the best song on the work. It's no wonder this track was used in a big seduction scene in "Sex and the City," since it is the epitome of make-out music. It is more than just make-out music, it has a depth and emotionality beyond the shimmering surface. The production by the late Suba is understated and perfectly compliments Bebel's restrained vocals. The Brasilian "feel" of the CD is more apparent in the more upbeat tracks, such as the cool, jazzy "Sem Contencćo," the tropical and fun "Bananeira," the Basia-like "Close Your Eyes," and her perfect remake of "So Nice (Summer Samba)," which shows a healthy respect for the original hit. Full-throttle emotion is at play in the track "Lonely," despite the electronic layers. After years of background work on her mother's albums, Suba's few works, and the 1991 Japanese-Brasilian oddity "De tarde, vendo o mar (The Sound of Brazil)," it is no wonder Bebel sounds so assured and distinctive on her debut album. She already knows who she is, and the rest of the world is happy to discover this great talent.Free Music Review: better than I thought * a Summer rainforest fantasy
Hit: 5 Stars
... Babel Gilberto, daughter of Joao and Muicha (NOT Astrud) has a hit. At first it seems insubstantial, but it's virtues are revealed by further listening. "Tanto Tempo" is pleasant and summery. Like sitting in the rainforest listening to old scrathy records on the stereo. Dreamy.
The first few songs have instrumental imitations of bird and bug calls! More upbeat less melancholy than the exquisite work of her father, more infuenced by Brazilian Pop. Portuguese is a melifluous language which rivals French in the smoothness of it's sounds. I prefer the Portuguese to the English, I'd rather not know the words!
Babel wants "Someone to Samba through life with her" in the song we have grown accustomed to in Portuguese. A warm thought!
And the chorus of "Bananeira" (banana) will stick in your head and replay forever in audio memory. Some songs seem to convey a warm breeze at the beach (Ipanema?), some hint of the rhythyms of Carnaval, and of course the jungle and rainforest. "Tanto Tempo" embraces the Brazilian music of today, while it reaches back in time to a better yesterday.
Music for Lovers. Close your eyes. See the fantasy, feel the warmth!
This music will be warming to listen to when it's cold and snowy this winter!
But, also go get yourself a copy of "Getz/Gilberto" (dad and the greatest saxophonist of all time) and see where Samba started. And dad's "Voz E Violao".
Free Music Review: Beautifully intoxicating. Sexy, smooth, and hip... Yes, that good !
Hit: 5 Stars
I'll try to be brief, lots have been said already about this masterpiece, but let me throw my two cents in.
Bebel Gilberto, world-acclaimed Joćo Gilberto's daughter, is the fresh new voice of Brazil. She is at the forefront of the resurgence in brazilian music. The QUEEN of the NU-BOSSA movement that's been so successful, particularly in Europe. Believe me, Brazilian "new" music owes her and her producer Suba (God bless his soul) a lot. A whole lot !!!
Bebel's Tanto Tempo is The album is sexy, hip, and incredibly well produced. The music is very contemporary but with a lot of respect for classic brazilian bossa nova. She effortlessly combines traditional bossa with smooth classy electronic music. The result is impeccable ! Dreamy (trippy at times) tunes will swallow up your soul in ways no other music has done it before. This is THE sound of the Nu-Bossa. It doesn't get any better than this when it comes to this genre. It doesn't.
In summary, you'll hear beautiful sexy bossa nova (and some smooth samba too) adorned with subtle and insinuating electronic elements that will definitely leave you asking for more, WAY MORE !
If you like smooth downtempo brazilian music, and you can also enjoy electronic, classy, hip, sexy music, then this is for you. GET IT ! Thank me later.