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| + artist ........... Cibelle |
| + album ............ Cibelle |
| + label ............ Ziriguiboom |
| + cat .............. ZIR15 |
| + year ............. 2003 |
| + genre ............ Lo-Fi |
| + source ........... CDDA |
| + quality .......... VBRkbps / 44,1Khz / Joint-Stereo |
| + release date ..... 19.04.2004 |
| + size ............. 78,3 MB |
| + link ............. http://www.crammed.be/zir/15/index.htm |
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| 01.Deixa 05:20 |
| 02.S≤ Sei Viver No Samba 04:43 |
| 03.Hate 05:46 |
| 04.Luisas 05:04 |
| 05.Waiting 06:19 |
| 06.No Prego 03:29 |
| 07.I'll Be 06:02 |
| 08.Train 05:14 |
| 09.In·til Paisagem 03:37 |
| 10.Um S≤ Segundo 05:04 |
| 11.Pequenos Olhos 09:37 |
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| (t!) total 60:15 min |
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| The Belgian bossa nova label that brought you Bebel Gilberto's |
| million-selling Tanto Tempo has found a winning successor in |
| Cibelle. Disproving the rule that actress/ models can't sing by |
| actually going as far as writing her own material, 21-year-old |
| Cibelle and her Brazilian producer, Apollo 9 (crazy name, crazy |
| guy) have produced a wonderfully quirky bossa nova album with |
| post-modern knobs, bells and buzzers on. It's simultaneously like |
| nothing on earth and everything you've heard before. This summer, |
| the sound of Cibelle will be percolating out of every hip coffee |
| bar, lounge and clothes shop. Buy now, before you're forced to |
| hate it. * * * * Phil Johnson - The Independent (UK) |
| |
| Who is she? These days, Brazil is as famous for improbably willowy |
| models as it is for exquisitely cool-voiced singers. But Cibelle, |
| siren of the Sπo Paulo scene combines the two in one kookily sexy |
| persona. An actress and poet, she co-produced and wrote most of |
| her debut Cibelle - one of the most talked about world albums of |
| the year, though it's not even out here yet. |
| Where has she come from? From a middle-class background in |
| Brazil's most exciting city, she hung out at all-night jam |
| sessions, joining in uninvited till spotted by Serbian-born |
| producer Suba, who made her the voice of his Sπo Paulo Confessions |
| album. Its ethereal electronica is ubiquitous in Brazil and in the |
| hip bars of the West. |
| And it sounds like? Astrud Gilberto, but simultaneously spacier |
| and more on-the-note, strung out into a luminous stream of |
| wavering bossa-scat and served over immaculately chilled digital |
| beats. Since Suba's death in a studio fire, she's continued |
| developing the formula, reinventing herself through a multitude of |
| visual personae. |
| A little contrived, perhaps? Anyone who can sing ''I love you so |
| much when you are inside me" without sounding self-conscious is |
| either so deliciously innocent it hurts, or Brazilian. Cibelle is |
| both. Live performances have the uproariousness of a teenage |
| sitting-room gig. Anglophile, bilingual and currently living in |
| London's Brick Lane, she's at the heart of a musical and social |
| scene so rarefied that the mere mortal can barely breathe. Mark |
| Hudson, Daily Mail (UK) |
| |
| Anyone who bought Bebel Gilberto's Tanto Tempo album will find |
| Cibelle's debut a required purchase. The two Brazilians share the |
| same label, boast similarly lush voices and both juxtapose classic |
| bossa nova and samba with contemporary electronic beats. Yet |
| Cibelle has made an even more audacious record, adding elements of |
| nu-jazz, R&B and pop psychedelia to the dazzling mix. Brazilian |
| purists might object to half of the songs being sung in English. |
| but it is only going to aid her crossover cause. Gilberto's Tanto |
| Tempo has become the biggest-selling world music album since Buena |
| Vista Social Club. Cibelle's superb debut has every chance of |
| topping it. * * * * * Nigel Williamson, Times (UK) |
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| |
| Cibelle bubbles-ideas are constantly flowing through her. She |
| managed to corral a lot of them for her debut album, Cibelle. But |
| while she hails from Sπo Paulo, don't expect the rehash of updated |
| bossa and samba, which is the diet of so many young musicians. |
| Cibelle follows her own path, and it has more in common with |
| Faithless or Massive Attack than Joao Gilberto. Brazil is there, |
| underlying the music in the rhythms and phrasing, but she |
| sidesteps all the clichΘs to deliver a startlingly fresh album. |
| |
| However, that's probably not too surprising since her start as a |
| recording artist came with Suba. The late Yugoslav expatriate who |
| helped push Brazilian music into the 21st century, was both a |
| friend and inspiration from the time they met. "I went to a jam |
| session one night, and I was smoking my Indian cigarettes when |
| this tall guy, dressed in black, not looking Brazilian at all, lit |
| my smoke with his Zippo. That was Suba. Later I heard this crazy |
| samba with really cool synth, that was weird and exactly what I |
| was looking for, and it was him. A friend pulled me onstage to |
| sing. At the end Suba said he'd been looking for a singer, and |
| would I come to his home studio the next day?" |
| |
| That was the turning point for Cibelle. Before that she'd attended |
| music school, where she dabbled in everything. "I passed the piano |
| classroom and I wanted a piano," she recalls. "Then I passed in |
| front of the percussion class, and I wanted to play percussion! |
| After that I was by the acting and mime class, and I wanted to do |
| that, in fact, the teacher wanted me to join." She'd also been a |
| model, and an actress, but the one constant in her life was |
| singing. She never thought about really doing anything with it, |
| until a friend pushed her onstage at a club. "I ended up singing |
| all the Jobim material they knew, and they liked it, so I started |
| going there every Sunday, and meeting all the musicians." From |
| there, she was hooked on performing, going from club to club, jam |
| to jam, singing a few songs at each. And then she met Suba, and it |
| all changed. Since then she's added her voice to several records, |
| including the latest by Celso Fonseca, and Juryman, preparing for |
| her debut. |
| |
| Suba, of course, was no longer around to help on her album. |
| Instead, she enlisted young Brazilian electronica wiz Apollo 9, |
| whose iconoclastic temperament matches her own. It was controlled |
| chaos: "Even the way we made samples. I'd close my eyes, put the |
| needle on the record and say, 'Go Apollo, record!"' Cibelle wrote, |
| or cowrote, almost all the material, pulling ideas from all manner |
| of sources. For Waiting, one of several tracks in English, she |
| "recorded the cash register and the refrigerator. Next day I went |
| to the studio, and Apollo asked: 'What have you got?' I said: |
| 'Well, I've got this cash register and this fridge and I want to |
| make a track from them'. So he created the bass line, and we |
| started jamming on top. We started adding stuff to it. We both |
| love Mellotrons, and Apollo collects old keyboards. My vocal on |
| the record is the original demo." |
| |
| It's a record very much from the imagination, although both samba |
| and bossa do get a look in. lnutil Paisagem finds her covering |
| Jobim, on a duet with bossa veteran Johnny Alf that's anything but |
| reverent, swooning with mellotron and synthetic glistenings over |
| electric piano. The song seemed an obvious choice to her. "I love |
| it. That was all I needed. I was translating the lyrics for a |
| friend, realised how much I loved it, and decided to record it." |
| |
| Cibelle's songs are a mixture of styles and recent. She began |
| writing several years ago: "...some of those lyrics are on the |
| album. Some I wrote the week they were recorded and the same with |
| the melodies. The whole process is really organic." And it also |
| involved a lot of experimentation. "When you're building a track, |
| it's like picking ice creams, trying everything. That's how Suba |
| worked, and that's how I learned to work. It's chaotic, but nice. |
| Everything I listen to and like, I embrace it, and let it come out |
| in my music. I want it to be there. The music happens by itself. I |
| have some initial ideas." |
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| She's recently begun DJing: "A little bit. It's more disc |
| selecting, I can't really scratch." It's a way to indulge her |
| passion for "hip-hop, nasty phat beats, ragga. I don't think I |
| could ever do a track like that myself, though,". What she's |
| really eager for, though, is to start playing her songs in |
| concert. "I can't wait to start gigging. I need musicians around |
| me, I need to be doing music and singing, or at least shaking a |
| shaker. I need live music." Roots (UK) |
| |
| "I try to write this beautiful bossa nova music, with traditional |
| Brazilian grooves and harmony, but then my terrible friends trash |
| it up," says the singer-songwriter Vinicius Cantuaria. He won't |
| say who the terrible friends are - sometimes he calls them "the |
| dangerous friends" - but they include David Byrne, Laurie |
| Anderson, Brian Eno, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Sean Lennon, Bill Frisell |
| and Arto Lindsay, all of whom appear on Cantuaria's slim but |
| exquisite catalogue of recordings. |
| |
| That the Manhattan art-rock elite is happy to contribute to the |
| creative distressing of Cantuaria's work tells you something about |
| how valued an artist he is. It also indicates how much the art of |
| bossa nova - of which Cantuaria is perhaps the leading |
| contemporary exponent - is responding to worldwide changes in |
| musical fashion. As a Brazilian in New York Cantuaria is perfectly |
| placed to absorb the experiments of the pop and jazz avant-gardes, |
| and to incorporate elements from them in his work. Indeed, this is |
| one reason why he moved to Brooklyn from Rio de Janeiro eight |
| years ago. |
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| The other reason, he says, is that it makes him feel more at home. |
| "Here, every day, I feel more Brazilian, because when you leave |
| your country you focus on it more. My harmonic perspective, my |
| chords, my melody, they all become more Brazilian. Also, your |
| music can change every day in the US. One day I perform with Arto |
| Lindsay, another day I perform with Bill Frisell. In New York you |
| can find musicians from all over the world; sometimes you can even |
| find US musicians too! It's not just Brazilian music I become more |
| involved in, it's everything; language, art, politics, whatever. |
| It's always about yourself, not just your music." |
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| I first met Cantuaria four years ago at Ronnie Scott's, where he |
| was presenting songs from his debut album for Verve, Tucuma. The |
| beauty of his songs shone through, and reading the translation of |
| the lyrics afterwards made them more beautiful still. "Let love |
| arrive completely, it alone brings transformation", went the |
| opening verse to "Amor Brasileiro". Set to trumpet, cello, |
| percussion and Cantuaria's own accomplished guitar-playing, the |
| gentle waves of the music lulled you into a kind of narcotic |
| trance. Verve dropped him shortly afterwards. |
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| Before Tucuma, and the 1996 album Sol Na Cara that preceded it, |
| Cantuaria, now 49, had been the drummer in the band of the |
| Brazilian superstar Caetano Veloso for 10 years, and a member of |
| the rock band O Terco before that. Cantuaria also wrote songs, |
| which have been recorded by Brazilian stars such as Chico Buarque, |
| Gal Costa, Marina and Gilberto Gil. His main influences, he has |
| said, are jazz musicians Chet Baker and Bill Evans and the |
| co-creator of bossa nova, Antonio Carlos Jobim. |
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| Cantuaria's most recent album, the rapturously received Vinicius |
| (2001) took the amalgam of bossa nova with the avant-garde even |
| further, but we haven't heard the half of him yet. As well as |
| continuing to work with Arto Lindsay, Cantuaria recently became a |
| member of the guitarist Bill Frisell's new group, The |
| Intercontinentals, who look likely to become one of the biggest |
| acts in jazz and world music. His band for next week's British |
| tour consists of two Brazilian percussionists, ": Nanny Assis and |
| Mauro Refosco, with trumpeter Michael Leonhart and bassist Paul |
| Socolow. "I perform 15, 16,17 songs, with things from Tucuma for |
| acoustic guitar and hand percussion mixed with experimental |
| things, and stuff with samples and electronics,' he says. |
| "Sometimes it's relaxed, and sometimes it's modern and noisy. |
| |
| Asked to explain how his music relates to the bossa nova |
| tradition, Cantuaria gives an entertaining discourse on the |
| history of jazz and how it is continuously renewed. "Bossa nova is |
| the opposite. In the beginning, when Jobim played at Carnegie Hall |
| in 1963, everybody loved it, but nothing happened after that. It |
| wasn't until young DJs from England and Europe started to play |
| bossa nova records at dance clubs that it got strong again. Now |
| it's growing, and getting stronger all the time." |
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| If Cantuaria has taken bossa nova into the 21st century, the 21 |
| year-old vocalist Cibelle might take it into the charts for the |
| first time since Astrud Gilberto with Stan Getz in 1964. Her |
| remarkable debut album Cibelle, on the Ziriguiboom label, pushes |
| the aesthetic further, into pop electronica. Produced by the young |
| Brazilian artist known as Apollo 9 and mixed by Morcheeba's Chris |
| Harrison and Pete Norris, Cibelle completes an informal trilogy |
| begun by the late producer Suba with Tanto Tempo and his own Sao |
| Paulo Confessions, on which Cibelle sang. |
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| Cibelle - who wrote all but one of the album's tunes - downplays |
| the conscious elements in her music in favour of chance, love and |
| inspiration. "We don't just have bossa and samba in Brazil, we |
| have loads of rhythms," she says. "I say it's like cooking; you |
| get all these different elements and you just play about with |
| them." |
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| Describing her singing as "emotional rather than technical", |
| Cibelle insists that the processes in the recording were |
| "organic', something she learned from Suba. "It was all |
| improvised, we just had fun with it, 80 per cent or 90 per cent |
| fun, doing what we liked and not using our brains too much. Then, |
| afterwards, we used our brains." |
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| The result is thrilling; light and easy on the ear, but full of |
| ideas. Like Bebel Gilberto, however, Cibelle is Brazilian music |
| for anywhere in the world but Brazil, where it's too in advance of |
| popular taste to sell many copies. In comparison, the latest album |
| by the usually reliable Marisa Monte, a huge star in Brazil, |
| sounds hopelessly outdated. Just as Vinicius Cantuaria had to go |
| to New York to find his way back to the music of Brazil, Cibelle |
| may have to be a queen in exile for a while yet. The Independent |
| (UK) |
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