Ivan Lins - Cantando Historias
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Artist: Ivan LinsEdition: Music CD
Format: Import
Published: 2004-12-02
CD Release Date: 2004-12-27
Music Label: EMI Europe Generic
Product features:
- Ivan Lins - Cantando Historias Mpb Brazil Import
- Abre Alas
- Guarde Nos Olhos
- Dinorah, Dinorah
- O Tempo Me Guardou Voce
- Desesperar Jamais
- Aos Nossos Filhos / Cartomante
- Bilhete
- Porta Entreaberta
- Vitoriosa
- Ai, Ai, Ai, Ai
- Comecar Do Novo
- O Amor E O Meu Pais
- Madalena
Music reviews of Cantando Historias
Music Review: Great CD- best introduction to Ivan Lins
Rating: 5 Stars
Amended from my original review on the British AMAZON website, amazon.co.uk
Ivan Lins appears to be little-known to most Western audiences- especially in Europe (apart from Portugal). Ivan's music could be described as pop-jazz, however this would be incorrect as Ivan Lins is actually classified under the heading "Música Popular Brasileira", translated as Popular Music of Brazil. This music is slightly jazz orientated, but with strong latin rhythms (mainly of bossa nova) and features influences from other types of modern Western music (such as pop sensibilities).
Ivan has recordings dating back to 1970 (although not released to worldwide audiences until 1975). In the last 38 years, Ivan has written and recorded many songs such as "Love Dance", otherwise known as "Lembrança" in Portugese, which has also been recorded by great Western jazz artists such as George Benson and Diane Schuur. Whilst this song does not feature on this recording, other songs such as "Comecar de Novo" (also recorded by Barbara Streisand, albeit with re-worded lyrics and re-titled as "The Island") are featured on this recording. Both of these songs are now known to many as light jazz standards.
Ivan Lins also contributed to the hard to find (at least in the UK) "Harlequin" album of 1985 by jazz/soundscore great Dave Grusin and the brilliant smooth jazz guitarist Lee Ritenour (one of the founding members of smooth jazz group "Fourplay"). Ivan has also featured on both the Lee Ritenour "Overtime" album and DVD of 2005 and has provided a source of inspiration for Lee Ritenour in Lee's explorations of Brazillian music.
The "Cantando Historias" album was recorded live in Rio de Janeiro in 2004 to mark a thirty year partnership between Ivan Lins and one of his long-standing lyricists, Vitor Martins. The album features great performances by the supporting band (the rhythmic backbone of Theo Lima on drums and the smooth bass of Nema Antunes, the subtle keyboards and accordian of Marco Brito, the brilliant guitars of Leonardo Amoedo- mainly electric guitar- and the gifted Ze Carlos- acoustic guitar, and varied latin percussion of Layze Sapucahy). Ivan Lins plays keyboard- mainly focussing on playing piano parts- and lead vocals.
This recording features most of Ivan Lin's more popular songs, though not all (as noted above) and vary from slow ballads to more up-tempo bossa nova-influenced songs. Whilst all songs on the album are sung in Portugese (and I unfortunately know little Portugese), the album still appeals with its strong latin rhythms, excellent musicianship of the performers and the brilliant material which the musicians have to work with. I am also compelled by Ivan Lins' performance of subtle vocals and brilliantly delicate keyboard playing, which is a pure joy to listen to. I personally find the arrangements of the songs on this album far more elegant and rich than the original studio recordings, which can sound a little clinically produced. The recording on this CD is excellent, with a great sense of space and clarity to the recordings and skilled mixing of the various instruments which provides a broad sonic soundstage whilst also allowing the listener to pick up subtleties in the recording (such as brushes on a snare drum).
"Cantando Historias" was the surprise winner of the Latin Grammy award in 2005 for best album.
If you purchase this CD, it is also possible (with some research) to source and import "Cantando Historias" as a DVD (region 0 e.g. plays on any DVD player, although the disc is encoded to NTSC format) from Brazil. If you do like this CD (as I do), the DVD brings several additional features, such as DTS and Dolby surround sound (as well as the stereo soundtrack heard on this CD), additional songs (I believe an extra 6 songs compared to the CD version of this concert) and a couple of great subtitle options. You can subtitle the DVD in English- very good to understand the poetry of the lyrics which would be missed unless you understand Portugese- and the other is to have musical chords displayed on screen with the orignal Portugese lyrics, which is great for any enthusiastic musician wanting to gain greater understanding of this great music.
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