Seu Jorge - The Life Aquatic Studio Sessions
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Free Music Review: Gut Wrenching Chillers, All of 'Em.
Hit: 5 Stars
I loved Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou. I saw the movie three times while it was in theaters and still could not get enough. Seu Jorge's character brought so much to the movie and I was a little disappointed that the soundtrack did not have all of his versions of our beloved David Bowie. The Bowie songs are great. The Jorge songs are great. I could listen to either one for hours on end and still not get sick of hearing them. Knowing the Bowie versions well also is a thrill when you hear this album because it surprises your ears with unexpected turns in tone and acoustic sounds. A definite necessity for any beach BBQ, I highly recommend this album.Free Music Review: If you love acoustic or portuguese then you love this...
Hit: 5 Stars
I love acoustic guitar and my husband is 100% portuguese so what could be better. I doesn't hurt that I love David Bowie too. Seu Jorge's voice is hauntly beautiful and the songs are great. Since I don't speak portuguese I don't know how close the translation is but the songs are still great. We played the CD at work for weeks.Free Music Review: An absolute must have for any hardcore Bowie fan
Hit: 5 Stars
"The life aquatic" is one of my favorite movies, in part because of Bill Murray's minimalist (some might say surrealist) period, but also because of Seu Jorge's part in the movie. If I recall correctly, his character doesn't participate in any dialogue, he just shows up in different scenes for no apparent reason other than sitting there strumming his acoustic guitar and singing bossa versions of Bowie songs.
I bought the soundtrack immediately after seeing the movie, and it's great, but I was a little disappointed it didn't include all of Seu Jorge's songs, so it was a real treat to find out about this release.
Jorge is obviously a huge Bowie fan in his own right. In listening to his versions, you realize that he just loves these songs. As Bowie himself comments in the liner notes, had Jorge not recorded these songs in Portuguese, he would never have heard this new level of beauty Seu Jorge imbued the songs with.
10 out of 5 stars.
Free Music Review: Seu is a great artist
Hit: 5 Stars
I've been a mild fan of Bowie for years but always dreamed of an acoustic album of his work. Over the past year I've been studying Brazilian Portuguese while visiting many Brazilian clubs and watching Brazilian live bands. Excellent combinaiton of the Brazilian Portuguese language with music. In my top 5 of cd purchases this year. I would love to hear Seu do a version of Space Oddity, Scary Monsters, or Ashes to Ashes, and Jean Geine. I can't wait to play this for my Brazilian friends before or after watching the world cup.Free Music Review: Bossa Nova-Styled Bowie Covers on the Slight Side But Still Pleasing
Hit: 4 Stars
I have to admit that Brazilian musician/actor Seu Jorge made his most vivid impression on me as favela hero Knockout Ned in the viscerally powerful "City of God" directed by Fernando Meirelles and Katia Lund. However, his role as the red-capped troubadour in Wes Anderson's "The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou" is memorable if only for his character's seemingly anachronistic renditions of the David Bowie songbook. Performed in Portuguese with just his guitar as accompaniment, the songs are transformed by Jorge's scratchy, emotive baritone and easy, often joyous strumming into acoustic bossa nova-style ballads. Depending on your reverence to Bowie, this recording is either an act of glam rock sacrilege or a fresh retake on the Thin White Duke's Ziggy Stardust-era output. Bowie himself seems to like it according to the liner notes.
Of the fourteen tracks, thirteen of which are Bowie covers, some are intoxicating in unexpected ways, for instance, "Changes" has morphed into a languid, loungey cousin to that girl from Ipanema, and "Life On Mars?" becomes a most melancholy visit to the red planet (For a more polarizing interpretation, take a listen to Barbra Streisand's bombastic 1974 cover of the same song). He appropriately shows off more of an edge on "Rock n' Roll Suicide" and "Queen Bitch". The best track may be the penultimate "Quicksand" in which Jorge more easily finds the song's idiosyncratic atmospheric tone and rhythm. His lone self-penned composition on the disc, "Team Zissou", is a percolating song complete with falsetto verses that sound just right next to the Bowie tracks. This is an enjoyable if rather slight recording and a nice introduction to a talented musician on the world scene.