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Cibelle The debut
album from the Brazilian singer made semi-famous as the voice on Yugoslavian/Brazilian
pianist Suba's hit album. The lyrics and songs are essentially all written by
Cibelle over the course of a few months surrounding the creation of the album,
and the sound was engineered by Cibelle along with Apollo 9, an up-and-coming
Brazilian producer. To add to the pot, a couple of the musical minds behind Morcheeba
lent a hand in the process. The songs are in large part ballads, capitalizing
on Cibelle's outstanding voice. There is a stray samba involved (as must be done
in any proper Brazilian album) in "So vei viver no samba." There's
a bit of clumsy rapping involved too, clumsy more from lack of experience than
from a lack of rapping ability. It's when she gets into a basic, groove-thick
ballad that Cibelle really shines here. Equally capable in Portuguese and English,
she can move the tracks forward almost entirely by her voice, with some decent,
if not shining, backing sounds ranging from the basic string arrangements to
bits of bird-calls and city sounds. Overall, it's not a bad album at all, with
a thoroughly laid-back sensibility. For something that lays somewhere between
samba and progressive MPB, this isn't a bad way to go. - Adam Greenberg, All Music Guide |
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