Track Listings (12) - Disc #1| All Artists: Celso Fonseca Title: Rive Gauche Rio Members Wishing: 1 Total Copies: 0 Label: Six Degrees Release Date: 5/10/2005 Genres: International Music, Pop, Latin Music Styles: South & Central America, Brazil, Latin Music, Samba Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPCs: 657036111325, 5410377001947 |
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On Celso Fonseca?s previous Ziriguiboom/Six Degrees release, the luminous "Natural", he soulfully revisited the very roots of pure bossa & samba. With this second international release, the seductive singer/guitarist,... more » |
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Album Description On Celso Fonseca?s previous Ziriguiboom/Six Degrees release, the luminous "Natural", he soulfully revisited the very roots of pure bossa & samba. With this second international release, the seductive singer/guitarist,who has been a regular collaborator of such classic artists as Gilberto Gil, Marisa Monte and Caetano Veloso continues to cement his reputation as one of the most exciting new voices in Brazilian music. "Rive Gauche Rio" features nine new haunting Celso Fonseca compositions, two unusual covers (a reinterpretation of British singer-songwriter Damien Rice?s "Delicate", a Portuguese version of French crooner Henri Salvador?s "J?ai vu"), and a refreshing duet -in Spanish- with Urugayan singer/guitarist Jorge Drexler (on the latter?s composition "Don de Fluir"). The instrumentation on this new album is a touch fuller than on "Natural" with several songs featuring a definite ?band? sound fleshed out with drums, bass, a ?60s-style Fender Rhodes piano and touches of woodwinds. However, the tasteful atmosphere and mood of "Rive Gauche Rio" is an extension of Natural?s warm, elegant and sensual sound, all dominated by Celso?s caressing voice and splendid guitar playing. Similarly Requested CDs
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CD ReviewsThe coolest sound from Rio Doc Meter | 07/22/2005 (4 out of 5 stars) "The second Celso Fonseca album comes as a nice surprise to me. The first didn't impress me that much, but this contains high quality songs (well unless you are tired of the bossa nova stereotype) and a great voice, really a bit too much similar to Caetano Veloso but this is not a fault but a pleasure to me. Two of the songs are really wonderful,"Rio para tras" and "Um mondo estranho". Not that peculiar the cover of Damien Rice and the instrumental "Atlantico". Very nice the duet with Jorge Drexler and the cover of Henri Salvador. Probably a bit too much all in the same mood but very classy. The production is minimal but when the songs are good they don't need much more than a voice and an acoustic guitar." Delicate Larry White | AdultPop.com | 11/17/2005 (4 out of 5 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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