Celso Fonseca - Rive Gauche Rio
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Free Music Review: The COOLEST Bossa Nova for the new millennium
Hit: 5 Stars
WOW, ever since buying this at Borders two days ago, I can't get enough of this CD; I just cannot help but play it over and over again. Both Celso Fonseca's delicate guitar playing is really smack-dab on par with his crooning vocals. They're both SO SUBTLE AS WELL AS SERENE, they ought to be plucking away at your heartstrings (just like it did to mine!)
Anyway, who knows? Over 40 years ago Antonio Carlos Jobim, Joao Gilberto, and Vinicius de Moraes created an international buzz with their "bossa nova" (Portuguese for "new wave" or "new attitude") movement in the area of music ever to break out of Brazil. Even if it's not as phenomenal today (at least I beg to differ), big deal, so what? Since we're already in the 21st century, the timing of Fonseca's two albums (this being his second) couldn't be better. :)
Free Music Review: Celso Fonseca - Rive Gauche Rio
Hit: 5 Stars
Brazil has never sounded better. Even though Celso Fonseca's second album RIVE GAUCHE RIO starts on the minor key and quietly icy electronics of "O Rio Para Trás," summer quickly sets in by "Por Acaso, Pela Tarde." As always, Fonseca's vocals are solid and never forced. The instrumentation, especially the steady guitarwork, sound impeccable. The deep strings of the bass on "Un Mundo Estranho" give that track a dark beauty, while the vocal duet on "Don de Fluir" makes it as light as chiffon. Even the heartbreak of "My Broken Heart" is put into a bright and airy room by Fonseca's clear vocals and gentle guitar plucking. Simple without ever being simplistic, this album shows that Brazil is still the place to be.Free Music Review: Rive Gauche Rio
Hit: 5 Stars
Celso Fonseca is one of best Brazilian singer/composer who has came around last years in Brazilian music scene. He sings very well, his music has a sophisticated approach. Although he is considered a newcomer in Brazilian music industry I consider him one of those guys who has been much influenced by Bossa Nova style, which is in my opinion the best kind of music which has ever appeared in Brazil in many years. In Rive Gauche Rio he keeps offering us all of his best. So, I can only give a 5 star rate.
Luiz Carlos M. Magalhães
Free Music Review: More mellow delights from Celso Fonseca
Hit: 5 Stars
Celso Fonseca is one of the great, but unfortunately too often overlooked and underrated, bossa nova masters of the last decade. With a voice as expressive as Caetano Veloso at his best, and a generally laid-back Latin jazz style, Fonseca always delivers. Rive Gauche Rio is no exception.Free Music Review: Delicate
Hit: 4 Stars
Truth be told, if pressed, we couldn't really tell, say, a samba from a bossa nova from a cha cha from any other mid-tempo, Latin dance style, for that matter. We do know, however, that we are magnetically drawn to the sultry beats of nearly all Brazilian music. Celso Fonseca, a superb singer/musician, is our latest Brazilian discovery. Fonseca's self-produced cd, `Rive Gauche Rio', is an enthralling piece of work. Grounded by the gentle strum of his guitar, Fonseca's alluring ballads are buoyed by the tasteful presence of horns, multi-tracked vocals, gentle percussion and modern studio devices and techniques. Fonseca's melodies and performances exude warmth and sensuality. Unfortunately, we may have to learn Portuguese in order to properly assess his way with words (although two songs are sung in English, including an intriguing rendition of Irish folk-singer, Damien Rice's `Delicate'). But really, with music this sumptuous, words hardly matter.
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