Celso Fonseca - Natural
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Artist: Celso FonsecaEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2003-03-11
Music Label: Six Degrees
Soundtracks:
- Bom Sinal
- Sem Resposta
- A Origem da Felicidade
- The Night We Called It A Day
- Meu Samba Torto
- Febre
- Consolação
- Ela é Carioca (She's A Carioca)
- Teu Sorriso
- Slow Motion Bossa Nova
- Minha Dalva de Oliveira
- Butéco 2
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Free Music Review: Classy Contemporary Bossa Nova from Brazil's Best!
Hit: 5 Stars
This 2003 release from Celso Fonseca is essential to any bossa nova collection, yet is light and jazzy enough to be enjoyed as well by those who are not necessarily bossanovistas. "Natural" is the perfect title for this album. Its arrangements are lean, mean, and clean, in dramatic contrast to Celso's previous release, the heavily orchestrated "Slow Motion Bossa Nova" (also a superb album, by the way).
"Bom Sinal" opens "Natural" and sets a classy yet relaxed tone for the entire album. Other highlights include "Sem Resposta" (a lovely "voz e violão" piece), "Ela é Carioca" (sung with then-fellow Ziriguiboom/Six Degrees artist Cibelle), "Slow Motion Bossa Nova" (now offered as stripped-down acoustic piece; Celso has never been shy about giving past triumphs a new treatment), and the powerful instrumental "Butéco 2," which closes the standard version of the album.
If you have not heard Celso Fonseca and want to try one album, I recommend "Natural." Check out Amazon's song samples and go from there!
Notes from Japan: In this, my third Amazon review of contemporary Brazilian music, I again offer you, the connoisseur, information on Japanese CD releases. Certainly, you can always count on superior manufacturing and sound quality from a Japanese CD; that's a given.
Now! The Japanese version of "Natural" has an elegant matte cover that is lightly textured and noticeably heavier than the American release. Mmmm; that's enough for me right there! But, you ask, what about the music? The Japanese release adds two bonus tracks to the standard set. The first is a solo version of Track 11, "Minha Dalva de Oliveira." This is a pleasant number, now getting the "voz e violão" treatment. But then comes the clincher: an absolutely stunning version of "Batidinha," a song from the Jobim album "Wave." Play the Jobim version and imagine swapping out the lush strings for a flying-saucer-ish synthesizer, and adding some solid Brazilian percussion. Just terrific! "Butéco 2," a great closing number, is not diminished by the two Japanese add-ons. And with "Batidinha" the Japanese finale, your listening experience, having been further enhanced, still ends on a high note.
Natural Poster
Celso Fonseca is a unique singer and brilliant songwriter who bears the torch of the classic bossa/samba Brazilian sound. He has collaborated with such luminaries as Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso, Marisa Monte and Bebel Gilberto.Celso Fonseca's Natural is a great listening experience - smooth, sensual, pure, warm, caressing, and seductive. An integral part of Rio's up and coming generation of singers and songwriters, Celso has recorded, produced and performed with some of Brazil's brightest stars.
After a successful career in Brazil reaching back two decades, Celso (pronounced "SELL-so") Fonseca is finally making his solo debut in the United States. Fonseca has produced, written for, arranged, or played on albums by such stars as Baden Powell and Gilberto Gil, as well as younger artists like Bebel Gilberto and Virginia Rodrigues. Natural, however, makes it abundantly clear that he is just as adept in the lead role as singer and star. Here he chooses to create modern but elegant bossa novas that sound hip but, unlike Bebel Gilberto?s electronic music-oriented Tanto Tempo, are mostly done using traditional acoustic instruments. With an emphasis on voice (he sounds like a young Caetano Veloso) and acoustic guitar, Fonseca has a strong collection of nine originals rounded out with Jobim and Powell covers. Aptly proving how skilled Fonseca is with his art, "The Night We Called It A Day" and "Slow Motion Bossa Nova" are rare examples of English language bossa novas that gracefully capture the music?s essence. --Tad Hendrickson
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