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Encanto 
| 80% Recommended by our customers. Label: Concord Records Catalog: Music Release date: 2008-06-10 Media: Audio CD discs number: 1 Ean: 0888072302785 Upc: 888072302785  Tip: compare prices with similar music CDsArtist:
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| Album tracks: (12) |
 The Look of Love - featuring Fergie Funky Bahia - featuring will.i.am & Siedah Garrett Agua de Beber - featuring will.i.am Waters of March - featuring Ledisi | Odo-Ya - featuring Carlinhos Brown Somewhere in the Hills (O Morro Nao Tem Vez) - featuring Natalie Cole Lugar Comum - featuring Jovanotti Morning in Rio | Dreamer - featuring Lani Hall & Herb Alpert Y Vamos Ya (...Let's Go) - featuring Juanes Catavento (Catavento e Girassol) - featuring Gracinha Leporace Acode - featuring Vanessa da Mata |
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 Written on July 20, 2008 Summary: Mendes proves that you can go home again! Two years ago Sergio Mendes came back into the mainstream with the Grammy-winning "Timeless" co-produced by wil.i.am with songs featuring Erykah Badu, Stevie Wonder, Jill Scott, John Legend, Justin Timberlake and several other international stars. That album, by virtue of its all-star pop line-up and co-producer had a more hip-hop "flava" to it. Though wil.i.am returns on "Encanto," most of the new album sounds remarkably like Mendes's classic albums from the 60's and 70's with updated technology. It's like a trip back in time when Brasil '66 was heating up the pop charts. Ledisi, Carlinhos Brown, Jovanotti, Juanes, Gracinha Leporace, and Vanessa da Mata, along with Siedah Garrett, Natalie Cole and wil.i.am possess the right vocalizations to match Mendes' sultry trademark keyboards. The benchmark of the album, however, is "Dreamer," featuring the legends Lani Hall on vocals and Herb Alpert on trumpet. That song is worth the price of the whole release. Fergie's contribution is pretty good on the update of "The Look of Love" but that one pales in comparison to the original classic.  Written on July 19, 2008 Summary: Don't buy unless you enjoy using your "skip" button Hip hop elements just don't belong in Sergios music! Guest performner Fergie is atrocious and makes we want to stick a fork in my ear. The only good track is by Lani Hall/Herb Alpert. The rest can be banished to short memory. I wish Sergio would have hired a producer that understood what it is that makes his music stellar. Instead we get Producer Will I Am and his grossly misguided contemporary "flava". I've already traded my copy for the Brasil 66 "Equinox" cd. Listen to that album and you'll thoroughly understand my review. Written on July 14, 2008 Summary: Sergio is back, yeah !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Tracks (Not available at Amazon's page) 1. The Look of Love - With Fergie - 2. Funky Bahia - With Siedah Garret - 3. Waters of March - With Ledisi - 4. Odo-Ya - With Carlinhos Brown - 5. Somewhere in the Hills (O Morro Nao Tem Vez) - with Natalie Cole - 6. Lugar Comum - With Dreams Come True - 7. Dreamer - With Lani Hall & Herb Alpert - 8. Morning in Rio - With Toninho Horta - 9. E Vamos La 10. Catavento - With Gracinha Leporace - 11. Acode - With Vanessa Da Mata - 12. Agua de Beber - With Will I Am - Bonus Tracks japanese version: 13. Les Eaux De Mars (Waters of March) - With Zap Mama - 14. Y Vamos Ya (E Vamos La) - With Juanes - This CD brings back Sergio in full speed to the music industry and in perfect shape; this is the Sergio Mendes we all like; full of those Brazilian rhythms that have made him the best embassador of Brazilian Music for 5 decades already, here you also have Sergio's Rhodes 73 keyboard very modern sound with retro elements and very importantly his guests here are: - Sergio Mendes / Rhodes 73, Arrangements, Pianos, Clavinets, Vocals - Gracinha Leporace / Vocals - Paul Jackson Jr. / Electric & Acoustic Guitars - Alphonso Johnson / Bass - Carlinhos Brown / Compositions, Vocals, Percussions - Natalie Cole / Vocals - Toninho Horta / Guitars - Mike Shapiro / Drums - Herb Alpert / Trumpet - Lani Hall / Vocals - Miwa Yoshida / Vocals - Kleber Jorge / Guitars - Bill Cantos / Vocals - Steve Baxter / Trombone - Justo Almario / Flutes - Meia Noite / Percussions - Giunga / Compositions, Acoustic Guitar - Vanessa da Mata / Compositions, Vocals - Joao Donato / Compoistions, Rhodes 73 keyboard ... and many more. Get it now, you will LOVE it. Written on July 1, 2008 Summary: Great Album This is a great album that will give us two hits. (Funky Bahia and also the remake of The look of love) Both of them are contagious songs. I agree that some conservative folks are not going to like blending the old Sergio Mendes sound with Hip Hop , but I think the sounds is modern and great. We can also find some more conservative Sergio Mendes songs on this album for the fans that are more atttracted to the 60's sound. The beauty about this album is that can bring different generations to enjoy an album. The cover of the CD is also great work.  Written on June 25, 2008 Summary: a review for Brasil '66 fans It's been around 40 years since Mendes reached an artistic and commercial peak with several classic albums that successfully mixed bossa nova, jazz, and pop music. Those albums still sound fresh today, thanks to the terrific songs, latin rhythms and some sparkling arrangements. Since then, Mendes has experimented with mixing his Brazilian sound with folk rock, funk, dance music, hip hop, and on "Encanto," some r&b. As someone who prefers the work he did with Brasil '66 to anything more recent, to my ears the album is pleasant though generally forgettable with the exception of a few wonderful tracks. Unsurprisingly the best tracks are those with strong melodies by Antonio Carlos Jobim, in particular "Somewhere in the Hills" and "Dreamer," both of which are direct descendants of the sound of Brasil '66. "Dreamer" includes both Herb Alpert and Lani Hall, who sounds remarkably like she did when she was fronting Brasil '66. This is a genuinely stunning track and easily the best on the album. Natalie Cole sings "Somewhere in the Hills" which is appropriately jazzy and is one of Jobim's strongest melodies. Other Jobim tracks include "Waters of March" which Mendes has covered several times in the past. It's a singer's song, and sounds a little rhythmically stiff here, as it has in his previous efforts. "Morning in Rio" is also good, with a more Brazilian styled melody and a nice trombone solo. The rest of the CD is listenable, but not such that I ever want to hear most of it again. "The Look of Love" is an unnecessary remake of a good song. What made the original great was a sensational big band arrangement which has been dropped in favor of a hip hop arrangement. I liked the Brazilian styled funk of "Odo-ya" and the mellow "Catavento" with Mendes' wife on lead vocals. On the other hand, "Funky Bahia" and "Lugar Comum," the latter of which features an Italian rapper doing a little snippet of "Volare," are disposable pop/hip hop songs. If I could get into Mendes' head, I would try to convince him do an album of Jobim and Marcos Valle songs with Herb Alpert and Lani Hall and a small jazz/bossa combo. It might not sell a million copies, but it would be an artistic triumph. If you're an unreconstructed fan of Brasil '66 as I am, I can recommend this with reservations. You might be better off just downloading a handful of tracks. But "Dreamer" should not be missed. |
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| Catalog | Music | Music | Music | Music | Music | Music |
| Release date | 2008-06-10 | 2006-02-14 | 2008-06-17 | 2008-05-20 | 1990-10-25 | 2008-05-27 |
| Media | Audio CD | Audio CD | Audio CD | Audio CD | Audio CD | Audio CD |
| discs number | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Ean | 0888072302785 | 0013431226321 | 5099921688607 | 0053361314026 | 0075021325821 | 0094634844925 |
| Upc | 888072302785 | 013431226321 | - | 053361314026 | 075021325821 | 094634844925 |
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