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Genre:
Latin
Release Date: 06/04/2002
Two years after her underrated album on
CTI Records,
Astrud Gilberto's follow-up is her first attempt to be taken seriously, not as a singer -- she had that covered -- but as a songwriter, at a time when simply singing
standards was seen as lacking. Her four songs on this ten-song album show she has a way with a melody, though obviously influenced by countrymen
Milton Nascimento and
Jorge Ben, and her producer
Eumir Deodato.
"Gingele" and
"Zigy Zigy Za" are exactly the kind of riff-based
tropicalismo that
Ben and company were making popular around this time.
"Take It Easy My Brother Charlie" is probably her best song here (covered over 20 years later by
Kahimi Karie), though it is
Ben who often gets the writing credit (here it's listed as
Gilberto and associate producer
David Jordan). Very few concessions are made to America; only
"Daybreak (Walking Out of Yesterday)" comes from the
pop world, with instrumentation and sound coming from south of the equator.
~Ted Mills, All Music Guide
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