Celso Fonseca, Rive Gauche Rio - 54m 26s

Tracks & Durations

1. O Rio Para Tres (Para Maite)	3:39
2. Por Acaso Pela Tarde	4:32
3. Feriado	3:53
4. Perdi	4:47
5. Delicate	3:56
6. Um Mundo Estranho	3:20
7. Don De Fluir	4:03
8. Bela	5:12
9. Atlantico	4:05
10. Pousada	3:14
11. My Broken Heart	3:29
12. Na Pele De Um Flaneur	3:29
13. Super Woman	3:12
14. Mameluco	3:25

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Review

While songwriter Celso Fonseca hasn't gotten the same kind of recognition as modern day bossa nova classicist Rosa Passos or electro-modernist Bebel Gilberto, he's truly a bossa nova talent worthy of much wider recognition. His last album, Natural, was a potpourri of tasteful sounds anchored by his guitar playing as well as samba percussion. On Rive Gauche Rio, Fonseca ups the ante with a sound that is more seamless and wholly unified. The heartbeat of the 12 songs here is still Brazilian and the acoustic guitar is ever present, but he gracefully broadens his palette with tasteful touches of flute, multi-tracked vocals, upright bass, electric piano and hand percussion. His voice is as warm and sensual as ever, and equally at home in his native Portuguese or English - he does a lovely samba version of Damien Rice's "Delicate." Opener "O Rio Para Tras" is a stunning example of this album's panoramic elegance; it also emphatically announces the arrival of one of the best Brazilian albums of 2005. --Tad HendricksonOn Celso Fonseca's previous Ziriguiboom/Six Degrees release, the luminous "Natural", he soulfully revisited the very roots of pure bossa & samba. With this second international release, the seductive singer/guitarist,who has been a regular collaborator of such classic artists as Gilberto Gil, Marisa Monte and Caetano Veloso continues to cement his reputation as one of the most exciting new voices in Brazilian music.

"Rive Gauche Rio" features nine new haunting Celso Fonseca compositions, two unusual covers (a reinterpretation of British singer-songwriter Damien Rice's "Delicate", a Portuguese version of French crooner Henri Salvador's "J'ai vu"), and a refreshing duet -in Spanish- with Urugayan singer/guitarist Jorge Drexler (on the latter's composition "Don de Fluir").

The instrumentation on this new album is a touch fuller than on "Natural" with several songs featuring a definite `band' sound fleshed out with drums, bass, a `60s-style Fender Rhodes piano and touches of woodwinds. However, the tasteful atmosphere and mood of "Rive Gauche Rio" is an extension of Natural's warm, elegant and sensual sound, all dominated by Celso's caressing voice and splendid guitar playing.

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