Sales Rank:3818 List Price: $16.98 Lowest New Price: $7.59 Lowest Used Price: $2.99 Artist(s):
Bebel Gilberto
Tracks:
Samba De Bencao
August Day Song
Tanto Tempo
Sem Contencao
Mais Feliz
Alguem
So Nice (Summer Samba)
Lonely
Bananeira
Samba E Amor
Close Your Eyes
Her father may be the legendary Brazilian guitarist Joao Gilberto, but in 2000 daughter Bebel proved that she understands the bossa nova, too. There's a subtlety throughout this recording that makes Bebel's voice entrancing, as she re-creates the sensual essence of bossa nova before running with it into electronic territory toward the album's end. Tanto Tempo is an even-tempered statement that manages to showcase Bebel's own sexy voice while gracefully remembering the past. --Karen K. Hugg
Sales Rank:7107 List Price: $19.98 Lowest New Price: $13.48 Lowest Used Price: $14.97 Artist(s):
Sasha
Tracks:
Limited Edition Two CD set. 13 tracks. Unlike dance mixes that are simply compilation CDs consisting of hits blended together in a continuous flow, DJ Sasha's Involver is a mix that features both the artist's own music and exclusive tracks from other electronic artists. The resultant vibe is more like a traditional single-artist album than a collection of unrelated songs. In addition to the usual mixer and turntable techniques that form the basis of dance DJs' stock-in-trade, Sasha employs cutting-edge computer manipulation and a wide array of vintage synthesizers to blur the line between fully produced recordings and live improvisatory disc-spinning. Using his trademark trance aesthetic as a starting point, Sasha establishes a spare, cool-as-ice feel with a distinctly European flavor. He maintains this throughout, slowly building the tracks with the care of a painter, and ultimately delivering an album equally suited for the club or a post-party headphone session. Rolling Stone - 3 1/2 stars out of 5 - "One satisfying set....This is Sasha's most substantial work in years." CMJ - "Stylistically, he veers far off the progressive path, offering moody textures, fractured breaks and crunching guitars..."
Sales Rank:2290 List Price: $15.98 Lowest New Price: $9.29 Lowest Used Price: $6.99 Artist(s):
Various Artists
Tracks:
Eu e o Meu Amor/Lamento No Morro - Quarteto Jobim-Morelenbaum
Cores - Da Lata
Papo de Psicologo - Jairzinho Oliveira
La Vem a Baiana - Jussara Silveira
Deusa do Amor - Moreno Veloso + 2
Preto, Cor Preta - Jorge Aragao
Meu Mundo e Hoje - Eliete Negreiros
Admiracao - Paulinho Moska
E Luxo So - Rosa Passos
Feitico Da Vila - Marcio Faraco
Banho Cheiroso - Rita Ribeiro
This eclectic compilation shows the syncopated and seductive evolution of the African-derived Brazilian samba and its offspring, the bossa nova. The CD features a new-wave series of moods and grooves tailor-made for the 21st century. There's angel-voiced Rosa Passos and her silky version of the Ary Barroso/Luiz Peixoto song "E Luxo So." Guitarist-vocalist Márcio Faraco's remake of Noel Rosa's samba-canção "Feitiço da Vila" is just as tasteful. The elegant, classically tinged Quarteto Jobim-Morelenbaum, led by cellist Jacques Morelenbaum, skillfully mixes Ravel-like harmonies with Afro-Brazilian beats on "Eu e o Meu Amor/Lamento No Morro" from the film Black Orpheus. The London-based group Da Lata swings the sacred syncopations of "Cores" in a club-friendly, secular rendition. And the talented Moreno Veloso, son of the great Caetano Veloso, turns in an intimate and atmospheric version of Olodum's "Deusa do Amor" (Goddess of Love). These tracks show that the bossa nova and the samba can still give us new musical surprises. --Eugene Holley Jr.
Sales Rank:2647 List Price: $13.98 Lowest New Price: $6.43 Lowest Used Price: $0.76 Artist(s):
Tracks:
Escape
Don't Turn Off the Lights
Love To See You Cry
Hero
I Will Survive
Love 4 Fun
Maybe
One Night Stand
She Be The One
If the World Crashes
Escape (Spanish)
Don't Turn Off the Lights (Spanish)
Hero (Spanish)
Australian version of the superstars 2001 album featuring 11 bonus tracks, 3 on disc one which are not on the US version 'Hero' (Metro Mix), 'Maybe' (Mark Taylor Mix) & 'To Love A Woman' (feat. Lionel Richie). And on disc two 4 audio tracks, 'Hero' (Datal
Sales Rank:10193 List Price: $18.98 Lowest New Price: $7.99 Lowest Used Price: $1.56 Artist(s):
Alessandro Safina
Tracks:
Only You (Luna)
La Sete Di Vivere (Thirst For Life)
Aria e Memoria (Breath and Memory)
Siena
Il Mirto & La Rosa (Myrtle and Roses)
'Stu Bbene (Feeling Fine)
Saro Con Te (I Will Be With You)
Il Profumo del Cielo (Blue Heaven)
Arrivederci America (Goodbye America)
Insieme A Te (Together With You)
Ehyeh (Instrumental)
Diva Mea (Instrumental)
An Italian tenor in the tradition of the enormously popular Andrea Bocelli, Alessandro Safina has long been admired and championed in the Netherlands, though he's made light of by his native country. Now, with his American major label debut, a self-titled collection, Safina soars into the popera limelight, his darkly sensual vocals powerful, assured, and flat-out sexy. Melodically affecting in a manner oddly parallel to that of the Eminem/Dido vocal juxtaposition on "Stan," Safina opens with "Only You (Luna)," wherein his masculine posturing is underscored and buffeted by an angelic female vocal refrain until the song fairly bursts like showers of fireworks in an open canvas of sky. Starting with the bar quite high, Safina's pipes nonetheless maintain the emotional posture of the record throughout, positing the singer as dream tenor of the year. --Paige La Grone
Sales Rank:7136 List Price: $18.98 Lowest New Price: $10.96 Lowest Used Price: $7.97 Artist(s):
Caetano Veloso
Tracks:
Outro
Minhas Lágrimas
Rocks
Deusa Urbana
Waly Salomão
Não Me Arrependo
Musa Híbrida
Odeio
Homem
Porquê?
Um Sonho
O Herói
Caetano Veloso's Ce is as bold as it is beguiling. Friend, collaborator and label-mate David Byrne calls it "an immersion in the land of experimental indie rock."
Sales Rank:2287 List Price: $18.98 Lowest New Price: $9.99 Lowest Used Price: $3.98 Artist(s):
Rubén González
Tracks:
La Engañadora - Rubén González, Jorrin, Enriquez
Cumbanchero - Rubén González, Hernandez, Rafael C
Tres Lindas Cubanas - Rubén González, Castillo, Guillermo
Melodia del Rio - Rubén González, Gonzalez, Ruben [1]
Mandinga - Rubén González, Fiffe, Guillermo Ro
Siboney - Rubén González, Lecuona, Ernesto
Almendra - Rubén González, Valdes, Abelardo
Tumbao - Rubén González, Gonzalez, Ruben [1]
Como Siento Yo - Rubén González, Gonzalez, Ruben [1]
Cuban pianist Rubén González has lived through this century's greatest musical windstorms, from the emergence of son to salsa to Latin Jazz and more. Born in 1919, González also retired from playing professionally years before this, his debut CD, was even recorded. He reemerged in 1996 when World Circuit stopped in Cuba to record for several days. He ended up making a thrilling debut. This impromptu CD was cut in a day, and its limber vibe shines for all its uptempo looseness. González plays a rainbow of Cuban rhythms and prods his percussionists and lone trumpeter to great depths of conversation and great heights of flash. --Andrew Bartlett