Bebel Gilberto has a pretty intimidating musical heritage to live up to. Her father was the bossa nova pioneer, João Gilberto, her
mother is the singer Miúcha, and her uncle is Chico Buarque, the Brazilian singer-songwriter, guitarist, composer, playwright, writer, and poet. Bebel's first public appearance was a
concert at Carnegie Hall with her mother and Stan Getz when she was nine
years old.
'Tanto Tempo', was Bebel's was first full album of modern bossa nova and samba, some call it "electro-bossa", as it melds the bossa nova and Samba sounds with modern production and some electronic elements, make no mistake this is not migraine inducing EDM (electronic dance music), the electronic elements are scarcely
noticeable, and contribute really well to the overall ambience. This is impeccably laid back music, that
recasts the spell of a bygone era with simplicity, elegance and style. Tanto Tempo proves that sometimes the more things change, the more they remain the same. To me, it's an album of stylish, cool, contemporary bossa nova, with Bebel's
vocals a bit more assured and polished than Astrud Gilberto's classic
and similar recordings of the '60s, and I say that as someone who loves Astrud Gilberto's albums.
Tanto Tempo was produced by Serbian producer Suba
and co-produced by Béco Dranoff. Tragically, Suba died from smoke inhalation while saving the newly recorded 'Tanto Tempo' from a studio fire. Whilst, this is a wonderful album, I wouldn't call "music to die for"...
For the freeload, tell us about an irrational fear you have.
Suba's record is a beauty. That version of Tristeza. flies high.
ReplyDeleteA world without sounds is an upsetting possibility for me.
Being music and natural sounds a guideline in my life the lack of it becomes a fear as I grow older.
Not so irrational but fear at last.
Thanks Babs for all the spirit you deliver here.
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That is a beautiful album - looking forward to what has to be a sonic upgrade.
ReplyDeleteUsed to be a fear of being alone, but my general dislike of a lot of folks has gotten me over it. Now, its a fear of snakes. That damn scene in the original Indiana Jones movie came within a millisecond of forcing me to pass out..
Great album! I guess my fear concerns heights, I can handle them fine as long as there's a sturdy fence or wall between me and whatever is on the other side... On cycling trips here through the Nonthaburi countryside I often ride across elevated concrete paths, but only if they've got a fence on at least one side...
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I have two:
ReplyDeleteWalking across bridges that have a metal grid, so you can see the water. People always tell me, don't look down, which always causes me to look down.
Then there are Chickens, for as long as I can remember, they have freaked me out. I have no idea why, I mean they're just chickens.
Too much Chicken Little as a child, perhaps?
DeleteI'm with you on those metal grids--especially if a chicken is coming the other way...
ReplyDeleteWhat I can't handle are the "fly-overs" over 100 feet tall that I'm expected to drive over on the freeways around here. I don't even like to get on my 1 story roof!
I dislike open heights as I fell 10-15 ft off a cliff onto rocks when I was a kid (fortunately no lasting damage) and those bridges you speak of always make me pause for thought (10,000 feet in a 747 is a breeze though) and you'd never catch doing a parachute or bunjy jump. That said as long as my body is secure on terra firma I don't have much of a problem (eg i can lay on the ground a peak over the side of a 100ft cliff
ReplyDeleteMy real worst fear would be something like a lightning strike managing to get into my electrical system and frying my many hard drives full of music or perhaps worse still a fire that did for my vinyl, CD, video and DVD collection
If you fear for your hard drives, I recommend backing up onto a cloud server. I use Livedrive and it's proved very useful for recovery a number of times.
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Heights and depths: being in a large man-made space can freak me out even if I'm at the bottom.
ReplyDeleteThe large models of ocean-going boats in glass cases in a high-ceilinged room in Liverpool Museum used to make me feel very uneasy - "What if the place floods and the glass cracks, allowing the big model boats to emerge and menace me?"
I tend to over-think things. Since I reached 70.
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ReplyDeleteDuring most of my childhood, adolescence and even my young adult years I feared that a dinosaur would come and eat my whole family. I'm serious, I needed to consciouslly get away that thought from my mind. Now the fear of having my family dead stays, but the dino has gone, luckily.
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