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Track Listings
| 1. Mi Declaración |
| 2. Calle 7 |
| 3. La Curva |
| 4. Lįgrimas Mexicanas |
| 5. Lįgrimas de Amor |
| 6. Cafezinho |
| 7. El Camino |
| 8. Aquela Mulher |
| 9. Briga de Namorados |
| 10. Forinfas |
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A duet is special when the chemistry between the partners is focused and unforced. A duet is exceptional when the partners somehow create a band that suggests more than two members. Brazilian vocalist-guitarist Vinicius Cantuária and American guitarist Bill Frisell have a major advantage in this respect as the former also plays percussion and the latter uses a pedal board that creates a wide range of loops and effects that lend orchestral detail to any chord sequence and main melody of a song.
So the bulk of the tracks on this enchanting disc do indeed sound like the work of a three or four-piece combo, but the rub is that there is a delicacy, an eye-of-the-needle precision, that still retains something of the heightened conversational intimacy that defines the duet format at its best. Arguably the most legitimate heir apparent to Tropicalismo legend Caetano Veloso, Cantuária has emerged as a fearlessly experimental figure in Brazilian music in the past 20 years and daringly steered bossa nova towards an undefined stylistic space in which fractured, non-linear electronica, hard-edged rock and understated jazz resonances synthesize as if to the manner born.
Frisell, one of the great omnivores of modern music, is an apposite collaborator primarily because he is as interested in crafting threads, fringes and veils of sound by way of technological means as he is playing strong theme and improvisation, and the union of the two men on this programme of originals that shifts seamlessly from Brazilian to Spanish to Mexican inflections pays substantial creative dividends. Given the wistfully light but piercing quality of Cantuária’s tenor, the vocal songs command immediate attention; but on repeat listening it is the instrumentals that reveal greater riches. Briga De Namorados is a highlight – a wordless tragicomic ghost story, such is the evocative power of its eerie deceleration from bright samba skip to bleak adagio crawl. Frisell’s teasing tremolos glisten over spirals of processed sound before an abrupt reprise of the sunny opening chords, the effect of which is as bizarrely beautiful as it is beautifully bizarre.
--Kevin Le Gendre
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The Guardian, (John Fordham), January 21, 2011
(5 stars) Remarkable album...traditional Latin materials sublimely transformed by cross-genre borrowings. It's a little classic.
(4 stars) This dream-team amalgam of Brazilian singer-songwriter Cantuaria with genius-guitarist Frisell...style that's extremely winning..."Lagrimas de Amor" is particularly sublime.
(4 stars) A laid-back Latin-jazz groove...Cantuaria specialises in slow-burning sensuality...Frisell unleashes some tasty feedback on the title track.
(4 stars) This dream-team amalgam of Brazilian singer-songwriter Cantuaria with genius-guitarist Frisell...style that's extremely winning..."Lagrimas de Amor" is particularly sublime.
(4 stars) A laid-back Latin-jazz groove...Cantuaria specialises in slow-burning sensuality...Frisell unleashes some tasty feedback on the title track.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Really good album. Listening to the Vinicio Cantuaria voice and the Bill Frisell guitar together, you feel how they are similar. The interplay between these two artists it's incredibile: nuances, exchange between the two, and the "sound". A great album, with a bunch of perfect songs, that shows how can be possibile to make pleasant music with few notes. Everyone have to listen to, then decide.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Bill Frisell's is a fine musician. His 2010 solo album 'Beautiful Dreamers'
was a real treat. Hardly a week goes by without me dipping in and out of it.
This collaboration with Brazilian Singer/guitarist Vinicius Cantuaria
is a magical experience too. 'Lagrimas Mexicanas' is a wonderfully
strange confection. Sultry, beguiling, mesmerising and seductive in
equal measure. These ten performances are worth their weight in gold.
Jump straight to instrumental 'La Curva' for a taste of two sensitively
attuned musicians bringing this gorgeous bossa nova melody to life
with elemental subtlety and a consummate understanding of the genre.
Mr Cantuaria has a dream of a voice. His warm tenor and sinuous vibrato
coaxes the heart of every song into submission. A voice with the power
to make your knees wobble; at once beautifully old-fashioned but with
the power and vision to challenge the status quo as he does on the
loose-limbed opening track 'Mi Declaration'. Mr Frisell adds depth and
dark texture to the arrangement with his gently subversive decorations.
'Calle 7' is another winning rhythmic invention supporting a veritable
croon-fest of spectacularly elastic vocal expertise from Mr Cantuaria.
It's hard to pick a winner when every track's a treasure but if I can
only take one with me to my desert island it will have to be 'Lagrimas
De Amor', a laconic tune, charmingly sung and helped on its way by
beautifully judged instrumental artistry of the very highest order.
Musical marriages really don't come much more perfectly-formed than this!
Highly Recommended.
was a real treat. Hardly a week goes by without me dipping in and out of it.
This collaboration with Brazilian Singer/guitarist Vinicius Cantuaria
is a magical experience too. 'Lagrimas Mexicanas' is a wonderfully
strange confection. Sultry, beguiling, mesmerising and seductive in
equal measure. These ten performances are worth their weight in gold.
Jump straight to instrumental 'La Curva' for a taste of two sensitively
attuned musicians bringing this gorgeous bossa nova melody to life
with elemental subtlety and a consummate understanding of the genre.
Mr Cantuaria has a dream of a voice. His warm tenor and sinuous vibrato
coaxes the heart of every song into submission. A voice with the power
to make your knees wobble; at once beautifully old-fashioned but with
the power and vision to challenge the status quo as he does on the
loose-limbed opening track 'Mi Declaration'. Mr Frisell adds depth and
dark texture to the arrangement with his gently subversive decorations.
'Calle 7' is another winning rhythmic invention supporting a veritable
croon-fest of spectacularly elastic vocal expertise from Mr Cantuaria.
It's hard to pick a winner when every track's a treasure but if I can
only take one with me to my desert island it will have to be 'Lagrimas
De Amor', a laconic tune, charmingly sung and helped on its way by
beautifully judged instrumental artistry of the very highest order.
Musical marriages really don't come much more perfectly-formed than this!
Highly Recommended.
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