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 | Title : Morelenbaum (2)/Sakamoto: Casa (Tribute to Jobim)
Author : Jobim, Antonio Carlos
Release Date : 20020820
Binding : Audio CD
Regular Price : $17.98
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Editorial Reviews :
'Casa' is the Portuguese word for 'house.' It's also the title of this melodic and moving tribute to Antonio Carlos Jobim by the Oscar® and Grammy award-winning pianist-composer Ryuichi Sakamoto, Brazilian cellist Jaques Morelenbaum, and his vocalist wife, Paula. The Morelenbaums, who cofounded Quarteto Jobim-Morelenbaum, both worked with the maestro, and almost all of the tracks here were recorded in Jobim's Rio home. The CD contains fluid and florid renditions of bossa nova-era classics from the Jobim canon, from 'Amor em Paz'--with Jobim's son Paulo on guitar--and 'Bonita' to 'Vivo Sonhando.' It also unveils rare songs like 'Chanson pour Michelle,' a short and sweet composition written for a soap opera, and a never-before-heard work, 'Tema para Ana,' an intimate piano/cello duet. Sakamoto's spare and splendid pianisms ring from Jobim's piano. Morelenbaum's singing cello tones complement his wife's angelic Portuguese and English vocals. Together this talented trio--with occasional accompaniment by percussionist Marcos Suzano, guitarist Luiz Brasil, vocalist Ed Motta, and bassist Zeca Assumpçao--beautifully exposes the French influences of Satie, Ravel, and Chopin in Jobim's music.
Buyer Reviews :
If you're here on this page today, then there's a day in your past when you were first aware that the beautiful and seductive song you suddenly could not get out of your head was written by someone named Jobim. For me, it happened while driving in the small hours of a long-ago November night, listening to a program on a faraway radio station called 'Night Flight.'
This album was recorded in Jobim's own house, and Jobim's piano responds to the hands of the masterly Ryuichi Sakamoto with as much rich emotion and dulcet tone as it once yielded to its former master. Like so much of Jobim's music, the arrangements here are spare and winsome, shot through with silky beauty and underpinned by emotional tones that recall the first time you gasped upon finally realizing what it means to be in love.
Perhaps you sometimes long again for the shiver that inevitably followed those first, early Jobim record purchases. Finally, here is an album that delivers the goods. I cannot imagine a more perfect voice than Paula Morelenbaum's to sing these songs...she eclipses even Astrud Gilberto. The living-room ensemble of acoustic instruments captures what the songs must have sounded like in Jobim's imagination as he composed them. The recording itself is exquisite. The engineers and producer 'play' their mixing boards and recording decks with as much under-the-radar mastery as the musicians, finding balance and clarity for every instrument and voice. No wall of sound here...just delicacy and beauty, and glimmerings of the unspoken sadness that gave wings to the joy in Jobim's music.
An old Jobim lyric translates roughly as 'Happiness is a traveler who visits your house, but cannot stay...' The Brazilians speak of 'fada,' a paradoxical view of fate: in their view, although each life must inevitably come to sorrow (for it is our nature), happiness and beauty burn brighter by our knowledge that we can enjoy them for whatever time we are able to hold them in our hands.
Jobim, too, was a visitor who could not stay...but his spirit burns on brightly in this album.
(by Mark H.)
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