Customer Reviews

Bale Mulato

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Daniela returns with and excellent album - instantly likeable - especially Levada Brasiliera and Topo Do Mundo - Excellent booklet with great photos of Daniela - For first time buyers of Ms. Mercury you will not be dissappointed.

Bale Mulato is Daniela's brilliant and irresistible tribute to carnival in her hometown of Salvador, Bahia. Every song is wonderful on this high-energy labor of love. This is Daniela at her exhilarating best. She really is Brazil's greatest musical ambassador! Don't miss the live CD & DVD of this album, Bale Mulato Ao Vivo. You will not be disappointed.

One another great album, is not the best album of Daniela but Songs like top of the world e levada brasileira are great.

Daniela is a phenomenal artist. This CD captures the soul and heart of all that is Bahia! Turn on this CD, grab a capirinha, close your eyes and find yourself magically transported to the Bahian seashore. After watching a performance of the lovely bahiana Daniela I was instantly hooked and went out and purchased this CD. I was NOT disappointed. After purchasing this CD, I will gladly purchase more music by this artist.

Daniela perfectly captures all that is magical and sensual about Bahia and Brazil in general. Bahia casts her spell on you with this CD

This album is one of favorites.... It very up lifting music and it songs is different and enjoyable... I love her music!!!! Her music has change my life in so many ways as I have growth with it for this 7 seven year of my life... Its another great album, straight out of Bahia... Axe Axe... Viva carnaval brasileira.... Eu te amo voce Daniela....

Of course, if you know Portuguese, you take on this CD is presumably vastly different but this is a review from on the merits as a 'universal' CD when you don't know the language.

Just want to get something out of the way - As someone who has thousands of CD's and has hundreds of CD's in languages I don't know a word of - if the music and the vocals are universal and touch a chord, then the CD is great and worth everyone getting but this is not one of those CD's.

It is mostly quasi samba pop with some more straight pop songs but her vocals all sound the same except for one nice acoustic ballad. Her voice seems okay but unexpressive - the backing music is mostly non-descript and all sound pretty much the same - middling pop with dashes of samba to make it sound more authenthic. Of course, not knowing the language doesn't add anything to the enjoyment but as I said earlier, we can all probbaly name 50 Brazilian songs that are brilliant and a great majority of non Brazilian's listening have no idea what they are really singing about - but that doesn't detract from it.

That's not to say her other CD's might be better but this one is definitely not terribly interesting or exciting.