Carnet de Vol - Escale 1

(4 votes, average: 4.5 out of 5)

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For those who did not know, Carnet de Vol is a large urban fashion brand, present in France and in Italy. In 2009, it celebrates its twentieth anniversary, and does it in music.

It is GregFingers, composer and urban music specialist, that Carnet de Vol chose to make this beautiful compilation.

Inspired by Massive Attack, Tangerine Dream, Brian Eno, William Orbit, and called a sound architect by his co-workers and by his audience, GregFingers doesn’t like to be confined in one particular style. He multiplies musical experiences, blending Chill Out, House Underground, and Trip Hop. He composes and releases his first album So Beautiful with the group Hands in 2005, and collaborates with many bands and labels throughout the world.

Real invitation to travelling, the Carnet de Vol compilation takes you on a trip to discover the best of current music, with a Trip Hop and Lounge sound regulated by a Down Tempo and Bossa Nova rhythm. Contemporary rhythms remixed with nerves around jazzy melodies to celebrate the brand’s 20th anniversary through 13 musical stops…

Tracklist :

1 - Fairytale (3:39) - Trip-Hop
2 - Running (3:38) - Trip-Hop
3 - I’ll be gone (4:00) - Trip-Hop
4 - Bananamilk (3:34) - Trip-Hop
5 - Angels (0:21) - Trip-Hop
6 - Raptime (3:04) - Trip-Hop
7 - Squeeze me (3:15) - Trip-Hop
8 - X love beat (3:15) - Trip-Hop
9 - Step aside (5:54) - Trip-Hop
10 - Being (solidaze remix) (6:01) - Trip-Hop
11 - En la luna (3:23) - Trip-Hop
12 - Always something better (trentemøller remix edit) (5:21) - Trip-Hop
13 - For a little angel (4:24) - Trip-Hop

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Cris Delanno - Cris Delanno

(1 votes, average: 4 out of 5)

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Referred to as the “new queen” of Bossa Nova, Cris Delanno uses her voice as easily on Gospel (her musical base), Jazz, Bossa, Samba, or Pop.
With this new album, produced by Alex Moreira, leader of Bossacucanova (which she joined in 1999), she sings both Brazilian classics such as Canoeiro (Dorival Caymmi), Consolação (Baden Powell and Vinicius Moraes), Gaiolas Abertas (João Donato) or O Brasil Precisa Balançar (Dorival Caymmi and Paulo César Pinheiro), and hits by Freddie Mercury (Crazy Little Thing called love), or by Paul Williams (We’ve Only Just Begun), and offers us an amazing musical ballad, bathed in a Lounge mood, at the same time elegant, joyful and sophisticated.

Enjoy !

Tracklist :

1 - Canoeiro (pescaria) (3:22) - Musique Latine
2 - Just the two of us (3:53) - Musique Latine
3 - Bem longe (3:56) - Musique Latine
4 - Me liga (2:27) - Musique Latine
5 - Consolação (4:56) - Musique Latine
6 - Crazy little thing called love (3:06) - Musique Latine
7 - Previsão (3:59) - Musique Latine
8 - Gaiolas abertas (2:40) - Musique Latine
9 - Receitas de samba (4:03) - Musique Latine
10 - O brasil precisa balançar (3:11) - Musique Latine
11 - We’ve only just begun (3:59) - Musique Latine
12 - O ronco da cuíca (3:31) - Musique Latine

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Tom Zé : Estudando a Bossa

(2 votes, average: 4.5 out of 5)

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Irrévérencieux et inventif, Estudando a Bossa (en étudiant la Bossa) rend un hommage délirant, surprenant, provocateur et critique à la Bossa Nova. Tom Zé nous en offre ici l’étude sous forme de leçon d’anatomie profonde.

Chirurgien de la deuxième jeunesse, il dissèque les clichés nostalgiques. Son bistouri ciselle au plus fin, au plus tendre. Ses chansons-chroniques restituent la belle jeunesse (polémique) de la Bossa. Elles redessinent, jusque dans l’accent, les arrangements, les mots-clés et les expressions, le panorama sonore de l’époque et les principaux protagonistes de sa naissance : João Gilberto avant tout, mais aussi Tom Jobim, Carlos Lyra, Vinicius de Moraes, Baden Powell, Dorival Caymmi… Tom a invité de très nombreuses femmes pour en chanter les louanges : Fernanda Takai (Pato Fu), Mariana Aydar, Zélia Duncan, Marina de la Riva, Mônica Salmaso, Andréia Dias, Fabiana Cozza, Jussara Silveira, Badi Assad, Márcia Castro, Tita Lima, Anellis Assumpcão…

Avec l’aide d’Arnaldo Antunes et l’appui de David Byrne, Tom et ses amis s’en donnent à cœur ouvert et s’adonnent sans complexe à l’étude complète de la Bossa. Telle une autopsie inversée (qui redonnerait la vie), l’opération est menée avec subtilité, intelligence, sagacité, précision et maîtrise. Le scalpel est sûr et amoureux. Il incise comme une caresse. Et nous montre une Miss Bossa Nova toute nue, folle et plus rebelle que jamais.

Irreverent and inventive, Estudando a Bossa (studying Bossa) pays a wild, surprising, provocative, and critical tribute to Bossa Nova. Tom Zé, grand bidouilleur de son, offers us a study in the form of an anatomy lesson.

Surgeon of the second youth, he dissects nostalgic cliches. His bistoury chisels the thinner and tender parts. His review-songs give Bossa a new youth (debate). They redraw, up to the accent, the arrangements, key-words, and expressions, the times’ sound survey, and its birth’s main protagonists : João Gilberto first, but also Tom Jobim, Carlos Lyra, Vinicius de Moraes, Baden Powell, Dorival Caymmi… Tom has invited many women to sing its praises : Fernanda Takai (Pato Fu), Mariana Aydar, Zélia Duncan, Marina de la Riva, Mônica Salmaso, Andréia Dias, Fabiana Cozza, Jussara Silveira, Badi Assad, Márcia Castro, Tita Lima, Anellis Assumpcão…

With Arnaldo Antunes’ help David Byrne’s support, Tom and his friends get into a complete study of Bossa without any hangups. Just like a reversed autopsy (which gives life), the operation is subtle, intelligent, sagacious, ran with precision and control. The scalpel is steady and loving. It incises like a stroke. And shows us a naked, wild, and more rebel than ever Miss Bossa Nova.

Tracklist :

1 - Introdução (Brazil, Capital Buenos Aires)- Rio Arrepio (Badá-Badi)
2 - Barquinho Herói
3 - João Nos Tribunais
4 - O Céu Desabou
5 - Síncope Joãobim
6 - Filho Do Pato
7 - Outra Insensatz, Poe!
8 - Roquenrol Bim-Bom
9 - Mulher De Música
10 - Brazil, Capital Buenos Aires
11 - Amor Do Rio
12 - Bolero De Platão
13 - Solvador, Bahia De Caymmi
14 -De: Terra; Para: Humanidade

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Lole - Sugary And Dry

(2 votes, average: 4 out of 5)

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Lole, bien sur, avec un nom pareil ce ne pouvait qu’être une blague !

Sous une apparente fragilité, la demoiselle cache bien son jeu ! Sous ses airs de pas y toucher elle surprend plus qu’agréablement. Entre Sheryl Crow et Fiona Apple, entre ballades folks atmosphériques « Anyway » où l’invite aux vastes étendues se fait sentir, au swing de bastringue « High Low » nous faisant nous imaginer quelques minutes être Calamity Jane en passant par une bossa nova « A Maybe Is Not A No » sentant encore bon l’été, la demoiselle nous ravie. Et Lole de continuer sur sa lancée durant tout l’album avec virtuosité.

Un délice musical tant dans l’éclectisme que dans la subtilité.

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Sergio Mendes: Biography

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A Brief Biography of Brasil ‘66

Arriving on A&M Records’ doorstep in 1966, Sergio Mendes and his group were signed to a record deal by Herb Alpert, whose enthusiastic response enabled their immediate success.

Blending Brazilian, jazz and American popular styles, Brasil ‘66 became known for their unique, innovative sound. While Mendes was the lively pianist, arranger, producer and musical director, it was Chicago-bred vocalist Lani Hall who gave the group the finesse that ensured their success on the pop music charts. Lani is equally at home singing in English, Spanish and Portugese, although you’d never know it from the way she tackles all of her songs with the ease of a native.

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