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Nana Caymmi is especially fond of the romantic repertoire, but she is never corny. This album is a good sample of her style, although it doesn't have her classic hits. Nevertheless, she makes excellent choices on repertoire, composers, and arrangements. It was included in the soundtrack of TV Globo's soap opera Hilda Furacão, selling 100 thousand copies in Brazil and bringing her second Golden Record. In the mix, one can find boleros, mid-sambas, an instrumental baião, sambas-canção, marchas-rancho, a valse, and a doleful canção. "Pra Machucar Meu Coração" (Ary Barroso) always deserves mention, but, as always, she preferred to interpret less known songs by important composers. She is joined on this album by Erasmo Carlos, Emílio Santiago, and Chico Buarque. ~ Alvaro Neder, All Music Guide
MP3.com Live: Thievery sets the tempo
DC downtempo duo takes San Francisco fans on a dubbed-out sonic tour of the globe, beefing up its sound with a full band and a diverse troupe of vocalists.
SAN FRANCISCO--That the life of a rock star isn't as glamorous as it seems is as much of a cliché as that of the glamorous rock star life itself.
Thievery Corporation
But for Thievery Corporation, the DC duo that are certainly two of the biggest rock stars in electronic music, glamour has been AWOL for the past week.
It started with the sudden death of one of their sound engineers last weekend, took a turn for the tense when its tour buses never showed up for its first show in Seattle, and got really shaky when they had to depart Portland, Oregon, for their show in San Francisco last night. Without sufficient ground transport, Thievery had to ship all of their equipment and everyone--principals Rob Garza and Eric Hilton, as well as their six vocalists, sitar player, guitarist, bassist, two percussionists, two horn players, and the rest of their entourage--had to fly to San Francisco separately.
Despite the turmoil, all was well last night at San Francisco's Concourse Exhibition Center, where the downtempo collective turned in a stirring performance before 4,000 fans. With the expo-style venue packed with hippies, hipsters, party people, and beat junkies, the duo and its multiethnic band took the crowd on a sonic tour of the globe, lacing each track with the group's trademark lush, dubby sound.
The nearly two-hour set touched on psychedelia, dub, rock, and assorted flavors from India, Jamaica, Brazil, West Africa, and Iran. It leaned heavily on tracks from the duo's 2005 album The Cosmic Game, a record that is full of left-leaning political verses from the likes of Perry Farrell, David Byrne, and Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne.
Those stars are off doing their own thing, of course (Thievery will perform at Farrell's Lollapalooza festival in Chicago in two weeks), but the group's touring vocalists filled in nicely. The group also included two members of world-beat outfit Poi Dog Pondering.
Adding a live band to complement Garza and Hilton on the turntables, laptops, and beat machines is a move few electronic outfits have the cojones, or the bankroll, to make happen.
The result last night was subtle at times, particularly on the sitar-driven "Lebanese Blonde," but it was spectacular at others, like on the ragga-laced "Warning Shots," which saw the group stray from the framework of the song to let the song blossom into something else entirely.
In all, it was a celebration of music from all over the world, through the eyes of the chill-out champs and their tight band. And best of all, the group scored some wheels to continue the rest of its tour. All is back to normal in the Thievery camp.
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