Ciranda [Limited Edition]

Marcio Faraco | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 25, 2008)
• Original Release Date: July 25, 2000
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Limited Edition
• Label: Blue Thumb Records/Universal
• ASIN: B00004RKMT
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #261,946 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Too often, the brilliance and popularity of bossa nova by its creators João Gilberto and Antonio Carlos Jobim have overshadowed contemporary developments in Brazilian music. This excellent CD by guitarist-vocalist-composer Márcio Faraco should bring listeners up to date on what's happening in that festive and folkloric country. Faraco, born in Algrete in southern Brazil and based in France, sings in the whispering canto faldo/spoken-song style of Gilberto, with the influences of Milton Nascimento and Caetano Veloso. In settings ranging from solo guitar and voice to ensembles with horns and strings coarranged by the underrated keyboardist-arranger Wagner Tiso, Faraco serves up a spicy sonic soup full of Brazil's Indian, European, and African flavors. The midtempo title track is an easygoing duet with Chico Buarque, and the haunting "Baile de Mascaras" features African percussionist Doudou N'Diaye Rose, while "Virtine Carioca" displays a zesty, Wes Montgomery-like jazz-guitar line. All told, Marcio Faraco's lovely CD shows us what the bossa nova will sound like in the 21st century. --Eugene Holley Jr.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A new and clear voice, November 6, 2000

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R. Morell "Frostwolf" (Albany, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ciranda (Audio CD)

A co-worker went away to Brazil and came back with 50 CD's from Rio. Through her, I've only begun recently to develop an interest in Brazilian music. I was in a Tower Records recently where this wonderful artist's work was being spotlighted as a new release. It's only rarely that I listen to a CD in a store and decide to buy it based solely on the first cut.

Subsequently I've listened to the whole album several times, and when I bring Ciranda into work with me, I have to remind my co-worker to give it back to me (she likes to put it on continuous play and just let it go). Faraco has a lovely voice and a poetic spirit, and I look forward to hearing more from him.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not to be missed!, October 6, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Ciranda (Audio CD)

I read somewhere that mr. faraco left brasil for paris because he was disappointed with the latest trends in brazilian music. Although I'm not sure if I can completely agree with him, his first album is definitely one of the best brazilian records I've heard in the long time. He sticks to acoustic and makes exceptionally fine, smooth music in the best bossanova tradition with some original ingredients. Faraco collaborated closely with Wagner Tiso (he did many wonderful things for Milton Nascimento among others), who played piano and contributed some brilliant strings and horns arrangements. Chico Buarque also sings on title track but you should see and hear Faraco performing live with his band. He gave a free concert in Ljubljana, Slovenia, this summer and it was absolutely wonderful evening.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 15 stars, January 14, 2006

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brad "ca_audiophile" (Fremont, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ciranda (Audio CD)

5 stars for each of his 3 albums. Why this guy is not better known in the USA, and even Brazil! amazes me. Maybe it's a lack of a major label. Maybe it's the style of music is not popular any more. See my reviews on his other two CD's. This, his first album is equal to the other two - if only slightly less "clean" recording quality. And I'm nitpicking here as I'm a finicky audiophile.