Bebel Gilberto "Tanto Tempo" (2000) - got it
I came to Bebel’s music via her collaboration on Mike Patton’s Peeping
Tom project. I enjoyed the sound of that track and decided to
investigate Bebel's own music. At the time the local music stores were
pretty well stocked and I managed to find both this and the self-titled
follow up reasonably easily and cheaply.
Bebel had been around music her whole life with her father being the famous Brazilian musician João Gilberto who had collaborated on the feted “Getz/Gilberto” album (day 41) and had written the bossa nova classic “Girl from Ipanema”.
Bebel released music with her parents and wrote and released music with a friend before teaming up with Serbian-born producer Suba (see day 879) who had immersed himself in the Brazilian music scene, mixing traditional musical styles like bossa nova with electronic elements.
This album takes that mix of styles, but it is fairly subtle on the
electronic elements. They mainly come to the fore in opener "Samba
da Benção“, "Alguém” and "Lonely". There’s a laidback bossa sound to much of the album, with a lovely rendition of bossa classic “So Nice (Summer Samba)”.
Tracks “Bananeira” and “No Return” offer a spicier, livelier side to Bebel’s sound.
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